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Tong & Danielle Family Foundation at a glance

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Tong & Danielle Family 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.

$5k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$20kRecreation & Sports$7kCommunity Improvement$2kPhilanthropy$2kYouth Development$500Food & Nutrition$500Arts & Culture$349International$100Other$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$194k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$2,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$2,000
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO$1,000
MAUI HISTORICAL SOCIETY$249
CAMP KESEM NATIONAL$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $50) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $50 → 14%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

IL
MA
OH
PA
CA
DC
HI
GA
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21k · 4 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$21k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
-1%

Still filing today

50%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • Northwestern University
    7× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +41%
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2019–2024 · $7k
  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
    6× · 2017–2022 · $5k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • PG
    PAYPAL GIVING FUND-WUHAN
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • H
    HACK4IMPACT
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • AB
    ANTI-RACISM BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2021 · $500
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.

1
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
2
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
3
University of Southern California

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…

Education
4
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
5
Lehigh University

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…

Education
6
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
7
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
8
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
10
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
11
Illinois Institute of Technology

To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.

Education
12
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwestern University; the most unlike its peers is Maui Historical Society. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 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)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $6,580 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITYMISSION SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL: $2,100 · OtherMISSION SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOLPAYPAL GIVING FUND-WUHAN: $2,000 · OtherPAYPAL GIVING FUND-WUHANHACK4IMPACT: $2,000 · OtherHACK4IMPACTLOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO: $1,000 · OtherLOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGOANTI-RACISM BOOKS FOR CHILDREN: $500 · Other+2 more: $190 · OtherLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $4,957 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNS…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technolo…+1 more: $100 · EducationNorthwestern University: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern UniversitySECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $500 · Food & NutritionMAUI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $249 · Arts & CultureTHE EXPLORATORIUM: $89 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50 · HealthCamp Kesem National: $50 · Human Services
Other$14,370Education$10,057Recreation & Sports$7,000Food & Nutrition$500Arts & Culture$338Health$50Human Services$50

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 budgetNorthwestern University: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $4,957 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $249 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOAK RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EXPLORATORIUM: $89 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of 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 · 0–40%
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.

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 18 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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