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The Yu Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$3kPhilanthropy$605Human Services$335Arts & Culture$304Other$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$171k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,055
DUK SHIN GOFUNDME$605
Individual grant recipient$500
TREDYFFRIN TOWNSHIP LIBRARIES$500
VALLEY FORGE MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO$250
CHINESE AMERICAN PARENTS ASSOCIATIO$210
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART$113
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY$50
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 12% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%JENKINS ARBORETUM: $500 → 6%PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $125 → 22%DUK SHIN GOFUNDME: $605 → 14%NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $50 → 17%CHINESE AMERICAN PARENTS ASSOCIATIO: $210 → 16%JENKINS ARBORETUM: $500 → 6%PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $113 → 22%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $66 → 17%CHINESE AMERICAN PARENTS ASSOCIATIO: $125 → 16%WOLVES ROBOTICS: $5k → 6%TREDYFFRIN TOWNSHIP LIBRARIES: $500 → 6%TREDYFFRIN TOWNSHIP LIBRARIES: $500 → 6%NEW EAGLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO: $250 → 6%VALLEY FORGE MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO: $250 → 6%VALLEY FORGE MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO: $100 → 6%HUAXIA CHINESE SCHOOL AT GREAT PHL: $2k → 6%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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3k · 5 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$3k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+19%

Still filing today

40%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • TT
    TREDYFFRIN TOWNSHIP LIBRARIES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1k
  • VF
    VALLEY FORGE MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO
    2× · 2023–2024 · $350

Funded once

  • HC
    HUAXIA CHINESE SCHOOL AT GREAT PHL
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • NE
    NEW EAGLE SCHOOL PTO
    one grant, 2023 · $250 · revenue +1%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2023 · $66 · revenue +19%
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $5,055 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHUAXIA CHINESE SCHOOL AT GREAT PHL: $1,800 · OtherHUAXIA CHINESE SCHOOL AT GREAT PHLTREDYFFRIN TOWNSHIP LIBRARIES: $1,000 · OtherTREDYFFRIN TOWNSHIP LIBRARIESIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDUK SHIN GOFUNDME: $605 · OtherDUK SHIN GOFUNDMECHINESE AMERICAN PARENTS ASSOCIATIO: $335 · OtherVALLEY FORGE MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO: $350 · EducationNEW EAGLE SCHOOL PTO: $250 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $50 · EducationPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $238 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $66 · Arts & Culture
Other$9,795Education$650Arts & Culture$304

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 budgetNEW EAGLE SCHOOL PTO: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $238 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $66 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $50 over 1y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Yu Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Yu Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to The Yu Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Yu Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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