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The Tsao Family Charitable Foundation a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp at a glance

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The Tsao Family Charitable Foundation a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$21k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$1.4MRecreation & Sports$150kHealth$80kHousing & Shelter$50kPhilanthropy$25kYouth Development$10k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOLDEN STATE WARRIOR CO$10,000
FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$10,000
WORDS2ACTION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%HUNTINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $80k → 14%CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $266k → 17%GOLDEN STATE WARRIOR CO: $10k → 10%PANDA CHARITABLE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $266k → 17%FLINTRIDGE PREPATORY SCHOOL: $261k → 14%FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $250k → 14%FLINTRIDGE PREPATORY SCHOOL: $250k → 14%FLINTRIDGE PREPATORY SCHOOL: $10k → 14%FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $10k → 14%FLINTRIDGE PREPATORY SCHOOL: $10k → 14%CLAIRBOURN SCHOOL: $18k → 14%FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $7k → 14%LAFC SPORTS FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%DOOR OF HOPE: $20k → 14%DOOR OF HOPE: $10k → 14%LAFC SPORTS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DOOR OF HOPE: $10k → 14%LAFC SPORTS FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%DOOR OF HOPE: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 6 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +69% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$1.5M
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+69%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationInternationalHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CI
    CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA
    2× · 2020–2021 · $531k · revenue +89%
  • FP
    FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    3× · 2021–2023 · $267k · revenue +38%
  • DO
    DOOR OF HOPE
    4× · 2018–2022 · $50k · revenue +183%

Funded once

  • PH
    Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd
    one grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue +17%
  • TP
    THE PANDA CHARITABLE FAMILY FOUNDATION (FKA THE PANDA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION)graduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +271%
  • CS
    Clairbourn School Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +69%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
2
The Chandler School

Chandler's mission is to provide each student with the highest quality and most academically challenging education in a nurturing, balanced and diverse environment. chandler strives to have its students gain a love of learning, a means of…

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3
Berkeley Hall School Foundation

Our mission is to "empower children to fulfill their unlimited, god-given potential as fearless scholars and conscientious citizens."

Education
4
La Scuola International School

Inspire brave learners to shape the future.

Education
5
Marlborough School

Marlborough school, founded in 1889, is an independent, urban day school for young women. the school delivers a superior college preparatory education to approximately 550 students.

Education
6
The Phillips Brooks School

The phillips brooks school community inspires students to love learning, to develop a spiritual nature, to communicate effectively, to be kind to others and to respect uniqueness of each person.

Education
7
The Buckley School

The buckley school is a dynamic, nurturing learning community committed to equity and inclusion. our innovative teachers and challenging programs inspire creativity, courage, and collaboration. by promoting a balanced development of mind,…

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8
The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

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9
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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10
Pacific Collegiate School

Pacific collegiate school's mission is to provide exemplary, standards based college preparatory and fine arts education for public middle and high school students of santa cruz county and bordering areas.

Education
11
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
12
Sage Hill School

We inspire in our students a love of knowledge and the ability to use that knowledge creatively, compassionately and courageously throughout their lives.sage hill school's commitment to academic excellence and our outstanding college…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Golden State Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Panda Charitable Family Foundation (Fka the Panda Charitable Foundation). Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLINTRIDGE PREPATORY SCHOOL: $531,250 · OtherFLINTRIDGE PREPATORY SCHOOLDOOR OF HOPE: $50,000 · OtherDOOR OF HOPETHE PANDA CHARITABLE FAMILY FOUNDATION (FKA THE PANDA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION): $25,000 · Other+2 more: $27,675 · OtherCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $531,394 · InternationalCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICAFLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $266,924 · EducationFLINTRIDGE PREPARA…+1 more: $7,000 · EducationLAFC SPORTS FOUNDATION: $140,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAFC SPOR…Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $80,000 · HealthGOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$633,925International$531,394Education$273,924Youth Development$140,000Health$80,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $531,394 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $266,924 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLAFC SPORTS FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetPasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOOR OF HOPE: $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PANDA CHARITABLE FAMILY FOUNDATION (FKA THE PANDA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION): $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORDS2ACTION: $7,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budget
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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Tsao Family Charitable Foundation a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tsao Family Charitable Foundation a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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