· Private foundation
The Sheng 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL CHUNG-HSING UNIVERSITY | $29,792 |
| CCIC - CUPERTINO | $8,000 |
| MAKE- A- WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $3,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | $2,000 |
| CUPERTINO LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAM ORGANIZATION | $2,000 |
| GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC | $1,780 |
| FILOLI CENTER | $1,500 |
| CA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN AT HEART FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CITYTEAM MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST | $960 |
| CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS (DE YOUNG MUSEUM) | $699 |
| THE TECH INTERACTIVE | $665 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 65% of grant dollars ($219k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 35% that went abroad ($117k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 35% of all-years giving ($117k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 14 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TGTHE GUTHY-JACKSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2024 · $10k · revenue +306%
- VGVILLAGE GOSPEL MISSION6× · 2018–2023 · $9k · revenue +112%
- CLCUPERTINO LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAM COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +192%
Funded once
- CDCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF MALAKALone grant, 2022 · $30k
- BOBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEMone grant, 2024 · $10k
- SSSYIN-LU SOCIAL WELFARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Chm decodes technology - its computing past, digital present, and future impact on humanity.
The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
To support and promote griffith observatory as a home for science literacy, education, and public astronomy through resource development and advocacy in partnership with the community.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is The Guthy-Jackson Research Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHINESE INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GUTHY-JACKSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds THIRD STREET COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CUPERTINO LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAM COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AT HEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FILOLI CENTER ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BEIYINU ALUMNAE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds UNITED BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Children with Special Needs ↗
- Who funds ASIAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE THE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL (USA) ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BSF INTERNATIONAL LLC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Sheng Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.