· Private foundation
The Wan Jou 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 $10k5 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER | $10,000 |
| NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC | $5,000 |
| SAFE PASSAGE | $5,000 |
| NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| WALNUT CREEK EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| TAIWANESE ASSOCIATION OF ROCH | $1,500 |
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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $106k · revenue +110%- MCMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC7× · 2018–2025 · $66k · revenue +43%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER7× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- RMROCHESTER MEMORIAL ART GALLERYone grant, 2018 · $15k
- NBNORTH BAY FIRE RELIEF - REDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUNDone grant, 2017 · $12k
- DSDELANCEY STREET FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o
Education and Research
To provide an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.
For more than a century, southwestern has educated lawyers ready to serve clients, the profession, and our society with excellence. we empower students to reach their potential. we cultivate inclusion and belonging. we promote equity and…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…
How this is measured
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 14 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 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Passage ↗
- Who funds Walnut Creek Education Foundation K-12 ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
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: 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 Wan Jou Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wan Jou Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Northampton Survival Center Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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