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The Yuelu 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.

$46k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
75%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 12
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations The Yuelu Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 89% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
ReligionAnimalsEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$45k83%
FY202412$5k75%
FY202312$8k92%
FY202210$10k50%
FY202112$8k92%
FY20204$4kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$10kRecreation & Sports$9kReligion$7kEducation$4kEnvironment$2kPhilanthropy$2kHuman Services$500Animals$450Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
MT
NY
PA
CA
DE
HI
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Indiana University Foundation$8,00010%
Carnegie Mellon University$7,50020%
Yao Qi Zong Foundation$5,00019%
Tahoe Fund$5,00010%
Kirkwood Ski Education Foundation$4,20040%
World Monuments Fund Inc$3,00010%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$2,95320%
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery$2,22510%
Big Bear S Meditation Center Inc$2,0002n/a
National Park Foundation$2,00010%
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All grantees of The Yuelu Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Indiana University Foundation$8,00010%
Carnegie Mellon University$7,50020%
Yao Qi Zong Foundation$5,00019%
Tahoe Fund$5,00010%
Kirkwood Ski Education Foundation$4,20040%
World Monuments Fund Inc$3,00010%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$2,95320%
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery$2,22510%
Big Bear S Meditation Center Inc$2,0002n/a
National Park Foundation$2,00010%
Sayaji U Ba Khin Vipassana Foundation$2,00020%
Shenphen Dharma Center$1,7103n/a
Liangli Foundation$1,30014%
California Hubei Friendship Society of USA$1,000111%
California University - Silicon Valley$1,00010%
The J Paul Getty Trust$1,00010%
Filoli Center$9701n/a
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco$92810%
California State Parks Foundation$80010%
Chang Sen Xue Longevity Association of USA$40010%
Chung Tai International Chan Buddhist Association$3341n/a
Yellowstone Forever$25010%
Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center Inc$20010%
Alta Vista Botanical Gardens$20010%
Tabawa Mindfulness and Detachment Center$20010%
Bodhi Light International Inc$1681n/a
Luminous Wisdom Meditation Inc$1401n/a
Northern California Bodhi Dharma Society$11820%
San Jose Museum of Art Association$9010%
Houston Museum of Natural Science$7210%
Yunguang Chan Center$501n/a
Youth4good Foundation Inc$501n/a
George Eastman Museum$491n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($24k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Yuelu Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIndiana University Foundation: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYao Qi Zong Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetTahoe Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKirkwood Ski Education Foundation: $4,200 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWorld Monuments Fund Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Foundation: $2,953 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHenry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery: $2,225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSayaji U Ba Khin Vipassana Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLiangli Foundation: $1,300 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCalifornia Hubei Friendship Society of USA: $1,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCalifornia University - Silicon Valley: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe J Paul Getty Trust: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco: $928 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia State Parks Foundation: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChang Sen Xue Longevity Association of USA: $400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYellowstone Forever: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlaska Wildlife Conservation Center Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlta Vista Botanical Gardens: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTabawa Mindfulness and Detachment Center: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern California Bodhi Dharma Society: $118 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Jose Museum of Art Association: $90 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $72 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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.

Network for GoodDC6.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About The Yuelu Foundation

How much does The Yuelu Foundation give?
The Yuelu Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $45,848 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Yuelu Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Recreation & Sports (25%), Religion (20%).
Who are The Yuelu Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Indiana University Foundation ($8k), Carnegie Mellon University ($8k), Yao Qi Zong Foundation ($5k).
Does The Yuelu Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Yuelu Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Yuelu Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Yuelu Foundation based?
The Yuelu Foundation is based in CA.

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 56 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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