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Tsao 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.

$5.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$7.8MPhilanthropy$4.1MEducation$3.3MArts & Culture$1.1MReligion$613kEnvironment$401kInternational$340kHuman Services$260kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $831k
  • $250k+5 grants · $4.2M
$60,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$123M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHOC FOUNDATION$1,640,000
ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,320,000
THE PURPOSE OF RECOVERY$606,700
CHINA INSTITUTE IN AMERICA$340,000
RENEWAL FOUNDATION$261,335
SOUTH COAST CHINESE CULTURE ASSOC$200,000
HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$200,000
CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE CNTY$157,500
IRVINE CANAAN CHRISTIAN COMM CHURCH$138,000
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY$75,000
BOWERS MUSEUM$60,000
SEGERSTROM CTR FOR THE ARTS$25,000
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$25,000
WOMENS STEP HOUSE OC$25,000
CORNERSTONE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY MIN$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $285k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY: $50k → 12%PROJECT KINSHIP: $10k → 10%KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $175k → 10%THE NET FAMILY SUPPORT: $50k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 23 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +87% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
19

Total granted

$15M
$744k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+3%

Still filing today

78%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $649k 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
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CF
    CHOC FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +53%
  • PO
    PURPOSE OF RECOVERY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue ×23 · 97% of their budget
  • II
    Illinois Institute of Technology
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • KC
    KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP
    one grant, 2023 · $175k · revenue +3%
  • DF
    DREAMS FOR SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2023 · $175k · revenue -35%
  • RS
    Red Songbird Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -86%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
2
California Institute of Integral Studies

Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…

Education
3
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
4
California Institute for BioMedical Research

Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…

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5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
7
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
8
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
9
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
10
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
11
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
12
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ancient Art Archive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyOrange County Business & Co…Philanthropic Foundations#12Fort Worth Community SupportEarly Childhood Education C…Family Philanthropic Founda…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr15%14%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%17%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr17%15%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr13%41%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,934

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 57 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
28/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHOC FOUNDATION — $3,272,250 · HealthCHOC FOUNDATIONPURPOSE OF RECOVERY INC — $2,256,700 · HealthPURPOSE OF RECOVERY INCHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,890,275 · HealthHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION+9 more — $377,300 · HealthIllinois Institute of Technology — $2,060,000 · EducationIllinois Institute …PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $375,000 · EducationPEPPERDINE UNIVERSI…THE CRAIG SCHOOL — $350,000 · EducationTHE CRAIG SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $277,400 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIF…+4 more — $128,800 · EducationRENEWAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,437,310 · OtherRENEWAL FOUNDATION…IRVINE CANAAN CHRISTIAN C — $270,000 · OtherIRVINE CANAAN CHRI…IRVINE CANAAN CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH INC — $180,000 · OtherIRVINE CANAAN CHRI…PEPPERDINE — $150,000 · OtherIRVINE CANAAN CHRISTIAN COMM CHURCH — $138,000 · OtherECOLOGY CENTER — $401,200 · OtherECOLOGY CENTERCHINA INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INCORPORATED — $340,000 · OtherCHINA INSTITUTE IN…+14 more — $171,902 · Other+14 moreORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,815,000 · PhilanthropyORANGE COUN…ASIAN AMERICAN FUTURES — $110,000 · PhilanthropyASIAN AMERI…+1 more — $2,500 · PhilanthropySOUTH COAST CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION — $1,030,000 · Arts & CultureDREAMS FOR SCHOOLS — $175,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION — $60,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $35,950 · Arts & CultureFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $726,000 · Community ImprovementCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY — $221,500 · Community ImprovementKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $175,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S STEP HOUSE OF ORANGE COUNTY — $140,000 · Human ServicesNET FAMILY SUPPORT — $50,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY — $50,000 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human Services
Health$7,796,525Education$3,191,200Other$3,088,412Philanthropy$1,927,500Arts & Culture$1,300,950Community Improvement$947,500Human Services$425,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHOC FOUNDATION — $3,272,250 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetPURPOSE OF RECOVERY INC — $2,256,700 over 5y, 97% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology — $2,060,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,890,275 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,815,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH COAST CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION — $1,030,000 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $726,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetECOLOGY CENTER — $401,200 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $375,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CRAIG SCHOOL — $350,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetCHINA INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INCORPORATED — $340,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $277,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY — $221,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $175,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetDREAMS FOR SCHOOLS — $175,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetWOMEN'S STEP HOUSE OF ORANGE COUNTY — $140,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC — $125,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN FUTURES — $110,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCENTER FOR VENTURE EDUCATION — $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetRed Songbird Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION — $60,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNET FAMILY SUPPORT — $50,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetYOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY — $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNew PATH — $40,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetThe Happier Life Project Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKARIOS MINISTRIES INC — $35,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR RECOVERY — $19,800 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetProject Hope Alliance — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT KINSHIP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE CARE AND DIAGNOSIS OF INHERITED BLOOD DISORDERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD CREATIVITY LAB — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPacific Symphony — $5,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWalk Intuit Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetANCIENT ART ARCHIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSEEDS ARTS AND EDUCATION INC — $3,800 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Orange County Communi…Sun Family FoundationTarsadia FoundationO L Halsell FoundationThe Devto Support Fou…Argyros Family Founda…California Community …Silicon Valley Commun…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Orange County Community FoundationCA24× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Sun Family Foundation · Tarsadia Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Tsao Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Tsao Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tsao Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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