· Private foundation
The Son Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $157k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMPASSION | $57,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| ANC CHURCH | $50,000 |
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SEASUN THEATRE ARTIST GROUP | $30,000 |
| SOCIAL WELFARE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LOVE HOPE TOGETHER | $15,000 |
| DESCANSO GARDENS | $15,000 |
| COVID FOUNDATION US | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GOOD STEWARDS CHURCH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $4,980 |
| IACD MISSION | $3,066 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–25, $240k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 13 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
Compassion International Incorporated8× · 2018–2025 · $209k · revenue +7%- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +46%
- LCLA CANADA FLINTRIDGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
- TFTHE FORESEABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Dosti sets up and manages schools in asian countries
Missionary work
To spread the gospel to the underserved countries
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Comparative studies and research concerning the political, economic, social, and cultural barriers and ties among the usa,south korea and north korea.
To bring the gospel of jesus christ to those who have never heard it and take care of orphans
Church
To travel the world and the united states and pray,feed and cloth the poor. in addition,to preaching the gospel
Biblical instruction
Preparing printing informational material, updating website, inviting guest speakers, traveling to various cities for organizing prayer movement for North Korean human rights
Charitable, religious & educational benefit to all people. mission includes distribution of goods, services and the gospel to all people without any discrimination or reciprocal requirements.
To promote the gospel of jesus christ through acts of compassion, public speaking, and conferences. to provide food, clothing, shelter, and rehabilitation for those in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seasun Theatre Artist Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 44 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 Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds LOVE HOPE TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SEASUN THEATRE ARTIST GROUP ↗
- Who funds HAPPY VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Son Family 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.