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The Yen Family Charitable Fdn at a glance

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The Yen Family Charitable Fdn

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.

$129k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$34k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$313kHealth$156kPublic Safety & Disaster$78kHuman Services$43kEmployment$23kCommunity Improvement$20kPhilanthropy$13kHousing & Shelter$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $94k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FO PARKINSON'S RESEARCH$34,000
SHARE OUR STRENGTH$15,000
CITY HARVEST INC$15,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
FEEDING AMERICA$10,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$10,000
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION$8,500
THE FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY$8,000
GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER$7,500
ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION$5,000
CHINATOWN MANPOWER PROJECT INC$5,000
JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION$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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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $5k → 17%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $5k → 17%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $5k → 17%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $5k → 17%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $5k → 17%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $5k → 17%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $2k → 17%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CT
VA
MD
TN
DC
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$644k · 22 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -33% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
3

Total granted

$644k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
-33%

Still filing today

86%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesInternationalEmploymentOther
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

  • CITY HARVEST INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $62k · revenue +58%
  • Feeding America
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +40%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    7× · 2018–2025 · $48k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • ARIEL RIVKA DANCE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -33%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $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.

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
American Institute for Cancer Research

Aicr champions the latest and most authoritative scientific research from around the world on cancer prevention and survival through diet, weight and physical activity, so that we can help people make informed lifestyle choices to reduce…

Health
2
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
6
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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7
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
8
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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9
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
10
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
11
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
12
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank for New York City; the most unlike its peers is Ariel Rivka Dance Inc. 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

20 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. 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY HARVEST INC: $62,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INCFeeding America: $60,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $47,000 · Food & NutritionGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INCALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $47,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & REL…American Diabetes Association: $39,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Associa…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $38,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDAT…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $9,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEAR…GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC: $8,000 · HealthGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS I…THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $7,000 · HealthSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $75,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 · OtherTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATI…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…WELCOME TO CHINATOWN: $10,000 · OtherWELCOME TO CHINATOWNMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $5,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NEW YORK CITY AND WESTCHERSTER COUNTY INC: $8,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NEW…ARIEL RIVKA DANCE INC: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $8,500 · Other+3 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $48,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nati…ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC: $33,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICA…FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $47,000 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK F…THE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY: $20,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MAYOR'S…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $30,000 · InternationalCHINATOWN MANPOWER PROJECT INC: $23,000 · Employment
Food & Nutrition$169,000Health$148,000Other$143,500Human Services$81,000Community Improvement$67,000International$30,000Employment$23,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $62,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $48,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $47,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $47,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $47,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $38,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC: $33,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHINATOWN MANPOWER PROJECT INC: $23,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NEW YORK CITY AND WESTCHERSTER COUNTY INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARIEL RIVKA DANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Yen Family Charitable Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Yen Family Charitable Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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