· Private foundation
The Simon and Ann Chen 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CENTER FOR ASIA AMERICAN MEDIA | $5,000 |
| ASIAN YOUTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| SAN MARINO FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTME | $5,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CULTURE EXCHANGE ASSO | $3,000 |
| ELITE MUSIC FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVI | $2,500 |
| KUNDIMAN | $2,500 |
| FAMILY KEEPERS INC | $2,000 |
| KIWANIS CLUB OF MONTEREY PARK | $1,500 |
| LA MISSION | $1,000 |
| THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY | $750 |
| INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOC | $570 |
| BUDDHIST ORTHO-CREED ASSN | $150 |
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 (FY20–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% 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
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 +40% since the first grant, against -25% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 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, 67% 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
- AYASIAN YOUTH CENTER5× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +105%
- CFCenter for Asian American Media5× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +47%
- FKFAMILY KEEPERS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- SHSIMPLY HELP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -45%
- CCAMMone grant, 2021 · $3k
- SVST VINCENT MEALS ON WHEELSone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
Save Cantonese is an international movement that sustains and celebrates Cantonese language and culture. We have three Strategic Aims: a) protect and strengthen educational and research infrastructure for the Cantonese language, b) affirm…
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
The mission of KCCEB is to empower the Korean American and other communities of the Bay Area through education, advocacy, service and the development of community-based resources.
ARTRONIKA is a collective of Los Angeles based artists that produce immersive arts programming showcasing an array of South Asian talent and culture. Through innovative and inclusive events, we reimagine traditional music, art, and…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The Asian World Film Festival (AWFF) brings the best of a broad select of Asian World cinema to Los Angeles in order to draw greater recognition to the region's wealth of filmmakers
Ksw makes artists out of community members and community members out of artists. since 1972, ksw has nurtured the creative spirit, and offered an important platform for new voices to be heard -full statement on schedule o
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 25 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 ASIAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Center for Asian American Media ↗
- Who funds FAMILY KEEPERS INC ↗
- Who funds KUNDIMAN INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CARE MISSION USA ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds ELITE MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIMPLY HELP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Daily Californian Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Labelle Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Simon and Ann Chen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Simon and Ann Chen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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