· Private foundation
The Shau-Wai & Marie Lam Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $50,000 |
| CHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FDN | $50,000 |
| OHANA PADDLING ASSOCIATION INC | $28,000 |
| ACE FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $12,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHANGHAI MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | $10,000 |
| BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NJ CHINESE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $7,000 |
| CHINESE AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| RWJ BARNABAS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| ORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS | $3,000 |
| THE REEVES-REED ARBORETUM | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.
67 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NJNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA8× · 2017–2025 · $310k · revenue +53%
- CHCHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $282k · revenue +33%
- AFACE FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +390%
Funded once
- AAASIAN ART MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCISCOone grant, 2020 · $125k
- CICHINA INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +83%
- NANational Automobile Dealers Associationone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -7%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To enhance both the global competitiveness of u.s. business and the u.s. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity.
Airlines for america (a4a) vigorously advocates for america's airlines as models of safety, customer service, and environmental responsibility; and as the indispensable network that drives our nation's economy and global…
Cna is a non-profit research organization that operates the center for naval analyses, a federally funded research center that has supported the navy and marine corps for nearly seventy years, and the institute for public research that…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
American psychological association is a national membership organization created to promote the advancement, communication, and application of psychological science and knowledge to benefit society and improve lives. apa fulfills these…
2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…
How this is measured
78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 119 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE OF 100 INC ↗
- Who funds ACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHANA PADDLING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CLASSICALLY CONNECTED INC ↗
- Who funds CHINA INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE DUNHUANG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR TEEN SAFE DRIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds National Automobile Dealers Association ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REEVES - REED ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASIA ART ARCHIVE IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds White Plains Hospital Medical Center ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gofundmeorg · The Tang Fund · The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Tides Foundation · American Express Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Shau-Wai & Marie Lam Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shau-Wai & Marie Lam Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- New Jersey Symphony Orchestra: 21% of income from government
- The National Federation of the Blind: 2% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
- Reeves - Reed Arboretum: 1% of income from government
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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