How much does Tien Family Foundation give?

Tien Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $154,075 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Tien Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Science & Tech (14%), Health (13%).

Who are Tien Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Miami ($102k), The Tau Beta Pi Association Inc ($50k), The Stony Brook School ($50k).

Does Tien Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Tien Family 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 Tien Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Ge Aerospace Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.

Where is Tien Family Foundation based?

Tien Family Foundation is based in FL.

Tien Family Foundation

Tien Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Tien 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.

$154k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$41k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$306kScience & Tech$87kHealth$81kCivil Rights$30kFood & Nutrition$28kArts & Culture$24kInternational$15kEmployment$11kOther$0

02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k24 grants · $51k
$10k–50k6 grants · $104k

$1,030

Median grant

States reached

$2.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI	$40,500
THE TAU BETA PI ASSOCIATION	$23,000
THE STONY BROOK SCHOOL	$10,000
DAUGHTERS OF SARAH NURSING CENTER	$10,000
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
FRIENDS OF WLRN	$8,600
WOODLAND HILL MONTESSORI SCHOOL	$6,000
DOLPHINS CANCER CHALLENGE	$5,250
BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF WESTCHESTER	$5,000
PAUL J SUMANTH MINISTRIES	$5,000
FEEDING AMERICA	$4,900
WORLD FOOD PROGRAM	$1,915
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION	$1,500
MERCY SHIPS	$1,030

02The need

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 (FY20–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$540k · 35 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$540k

$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%

Still filing today

69%

68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthInternationalEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther

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

UO
University of Miami
8× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +96%
TT
THE TAU BETA PI ASSOCIATION INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +2%
TS
THE STONY BROOK SCHOOL
8× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +53%

Funded once

RF
RSE FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -94%
SO
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -34%
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $2k · 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

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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health

Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

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

American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—

Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the World Food Program Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bridge Charitable Foundation 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

50 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. 50 of the 71 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/50

Grantees still filing

26/50

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$242,707Other$216,658Health$78,586Civil Rights$25,000Food & Nutrition$21,955International$13,398Human Services$8,565

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.

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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Tien Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tien Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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