· Private foundation
Thomas & Margaret Tan Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $13,000 |
| UCSF CAROL FRANK BUCK BREAST CARE C | $5,000 |
| Bellarmine College Preparatory | $3,000 |
| TUESDAY'S CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| OUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREAC | $1,000 |
| ADDICTION ED SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| LOW COUNTRY LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -81% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $72k · revenue +60%
- HBHILLSBOROUGH BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +75%
CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- MSMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTRING CANCER CENTone grant, 2022 · $3k
- ADALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -81%
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.
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…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
Loma linda university, a seventh-day adventist christian health sciences institution, seeks to further the healing and teaching ministry of jesus christ "to make man whole" by: - educating ethical and proficient christian health…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The lucile packard foundation for children's health is here to unlock philanthropy to transform health for all kids and moms, in northern california and around the world. our foundation raises funds for child and maternal health at lucile…
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 16 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 COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HILLSBOROUGH BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TUESDAY'S CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas & Margaret Tan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas & Margaret Tan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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