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Tou Foundation Fred Tou Trustee

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$15k
Granted FY2018
12
Grants FY2018
11
Organizations funded FY2018
18%
First-time grantees FY2018
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100% of Tou Foundation Fred Tou Trustee’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Tou Foundation Fred Tou Trustee named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $15k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
’17
5
’18
1
’19

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2018
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$3,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 11
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 18% of the organizations Tou Foundation Fred Tou Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201811$14k18%
FY201710$15kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Philanthropy$381kHealth$10kEducation$8kReligion$6kArts & Culture$5kRecreation & Sports$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Albertus Magnus College$6,00020%
Paulist Fathers$4,0002n/a
Center for Disability Servicesinc$2,2503n/a
American Special Hockey Association Inc$1,5002n/a
The Girls' Middle School$50010%
The University of Florida Foundation Inc$50010%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Tou Foundation Fred Tou Trustee

How much does Tou Foundation Fred Tou Trustee give?
Tou Foundation Fred Tou Trustee reported 12 grants totaling $15,000 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Tou Foundation Fred Tou Trustee fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Philanthropy (93%), Health (2%), Education (2%).
Who are Tou Foundation Fred Tou Trustee's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Albertus Magnus College ($6k), Paulist Fathers ($4k), Center for Disability Servicesinc ($2k).
Does Tou Foundation Fred Tou Trustee fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tou Foundation Fred Tou Trustee 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 Tou Foundation Fred Tou Trustee?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Tou Foundation Fred Tou Trustee based?
Tou Foundation Fred Tou Trustee 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 14 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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