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Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation at a glance

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Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$29M
Granted FY2024still arriving
169
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$49MHealth$48MArts & Culture$30MInternational$13MReligion$8.9MScience & Tech$7.8MFood & Nutrition$7.7MEnvironment$5.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 169 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k71 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k47 grants · $4.9M
  • $250k+33 grants · $23M
$30,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$3,000,000
INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOCIETY$3,000,000
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$2,000,000
DIRECT RELIEF$1,000,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$1,000,000
HOUSTON FOOD BANK$1,000,000
ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER$1,000,000
HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE$1,000,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERS USA INC$893,919
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$600,000
COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART$600,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$500,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$500,000
CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION$500,000
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$500,000
02The need
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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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CCS CONNECT COMMUNITY SERVIES: $50k → 9%GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $30k → 23%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $50k → 8%NORTHWEST VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $20k → 23%NORTHWEST VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%HOLLABACK: $5k → 20%GENERATION ONE INC: $100k → 16%GENERATION ONE INC: $100k → 16%GREATER CHINATOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 20%GENERATION ONE INC: $100k → 16%GENERATION ONE INC: $100k → 16%JOIN: $10k → 12%GENERATION ONE: $50k → 16%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $5k → 10%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $5k → 10%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $5k → 10%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $5k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $150k → 14%CHARITY WATER: $60k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $60k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $60k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $60k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $25k → 17%CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100k → 16%CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100k → 16%CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100k → 16%CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100k → 16%CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $13k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $350k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $350k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $2k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $2k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $2k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $250k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $320k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $50k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $25k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 16%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$160M · 189 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

189 repeat relationships: 115 still active in FY2024, 74 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

189
102

Total granted

$160M
$9.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+19%

Still filing today

83%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WC
    Wellesley College
    8× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue +63%
  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    7× · 2017–2024 · $16M · revenue +105%
  • AS
    ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.5M · revenue +162% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • IB
    INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $1.5M
  • HH
    Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +7%
  • UW
    United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue -7%
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.

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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
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.

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3
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
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
6
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
7
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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8
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
11
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Chinese Cultural Heritage. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

258 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. 258 of the 331 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
255/258
Grantees still filing
185/258
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wellesley College: $19,000,000 · EducationWellesley CollegeWilliam Marsh Rice University: $5,285,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice UniversityBaylor College of Medicine: $3,900,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineDUKE UNIVERSITY: $3,475,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $3,075,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $2,654,474 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN …THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,565,000 · Education+27 more: $9,519,550 · Education+27 moreTexas Children's Hospital: $15,905,000 · HealthTexas Children's Hos…MAYO CLINIC: $7,950,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,530,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD F…Harris County Hospital District Foundation: $2,000,000 · HealthHarris County Hospit…THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,600,000 · HealthASIAN AMERICAN HEALTH COALITION OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $1,230,000 · Health+9 more: $3,135,000 · Health+9 moreINTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOCIETY: $6,150,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PRO…The Houston Food Bank: $3,421,915 · OtherThe Houston Food BankFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,000,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOCIETY: $1,520,000 · OtherKIPP INC: $1,500,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $1,950,000 · Other+84 more: $27,502,891 · Other+84 moreASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER: $8,528,000 · Arts & CultureASIA SOCIETY TEXA…Houston Museum of Natural Science: $6,115,500 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of…THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $3,350,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FIN…Houston Grand Opera Association Inc: $3,160,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Grand Ope…Metropolitan Opera Association Inc: $1,950,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Oper…+19 more: $6,176,500 · Arts & Culture+19 moreDIRECT RELIEF: $3,350,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELI…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,013,919 · InternationalMEDECINS SA…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,297,667 · InternationalWORLD CENTR…THE ASIA SOCIETY: $2,068,166 · InternationalTHE ASIA SO…BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,900,000 · InternationalBUDDHIST GL…THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS FOUNDATION: $1,134,340 · InternationalTHE AMERICA…TSINGHUA EDUCATION FOUNDATION NA INC: $1,000,000 · InternationalTSINGHUA ED…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $870,000 · International+10 more: $2,565,000 · International+10 moreFOUNDATION FOR CHINESE CULTURAL HERITAGE: $5,700,000 · PhilanthropyASTROS GOLF FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Houston: $830,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $320,000 · PhilanthropyALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $412,500 · PhilanthropyKIDS' MEALS INC: $706,000 · Human ServicesCHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesGENERATION ONE INC: $450,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $325,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $320,000 · Human ServicesHouston Area Women's Center: $272,500 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesEnding Community Homelessness Coalition Inc: $170,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $150,000 · Human Services+2 more: $160,000 · Human Services
Education$49,474,024Health$34,350,000Other$44,044,806Arts & Culture$29,280,000International$18,199,092Philanthropy$8,562,500Human Services$3,303,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetWellesley College: $19,000,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $15,905,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER: $8,528,000 over 8y, 33% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $7,950,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $6,115,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CHINESE CULTURAL HERITAGE: $5,700,000 over 6y, 92% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $5,285,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $3,900,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $3,475,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $3,421,915 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $3,350,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $3,350,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $3,160,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $3,075,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,013,919 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $2,654,474 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,565,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,530,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,297,667 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $2,068,166 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetHarris County Hospital District Foundation: $2,000,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $1,950,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $1,950,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,900,000 over 8y, 38% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,600,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFeeding America: $1,350,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN HEALTH COALITION OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $1,230,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $1,200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,170,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS FOUNDATION: $1,134,340 over 4y, 32% of budgetFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $1,100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Houston Partnership Foundation: $1,085,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc: $1,015,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetTexas Business Hall of Fame Foundation: $1,010,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE WEST: $1,000,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetTSINGHUA EDUCATION FOUNDATION NA INC: $1,000,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetASTROS GOLF FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetSt John's School: $892,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $880,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $870,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $850,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $830,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $745,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $715,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $706,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMemorial Hermann Health System: $700,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Ballet Foundation: $675,000 over 7y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds Wellesley College ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE CULTURAL HERITAGE ↗
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ASIA SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Harris County Hospital District Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN HEALTH COALITION OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA ↗
  • Who funds The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Greater Houston Partnership Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
  • Who funds Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST ↗
  • Who funds TSINGHUA EDUCATION FOUNDATION NA INC ↗

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.

Greater Houston Commu…The Brown Foundation …Albert & Ethel Herzst…Houston Endowment IncThe Powell FoundationShell USA Company Fou…The Elkins FoundationCenterpoint Energy Fo…Vivian L Smith Founda…Marek Family Foundati…Baker Hughes Foundati…Strake Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX52.6× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Powell Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · Strake 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 Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Portland Street Medicine: 32% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Transition Projects Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East: 14% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Bok Tower Gardens Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Southern College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
44report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation 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 331 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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