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Tung Family Foundation at a glance

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Tung Family Foundation

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.

$77k
Granted FY2018
25
Grants FY2018
8
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

96% of Tung Family Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 19 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Tung Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $77k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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19
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19
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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2019.

Philanthropy$993kRecreation & Sports$45kReligion$34kArts & Culture$29kEducation$14kInternational$13kHealth$7kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2018 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k21 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$15,000
ALL SOULS CHURCH$14,000
MUSICIANS FOUNDATION$12,000
HOUSE OF THE REDEEMER$10,000
BOHEMIAN FOUNDATION$5,000
564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FDN$3,000
DALTON SCHOOL$2,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$2,000
SCHILLER INSTITUTE NYC CHORUS$2,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$2,000
CONCERTS IN MOTION$1,200
STANFORD FUND$1,000
RIVERSIDE LANGUAGE PROGRAM$1,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY PROJECT$750
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 (FY18–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $500 → 17%CHARITY WATER: $700 → 17%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

MN
NY
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NC
DC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$133k · 18 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2018, 1 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
4

Total granted

$133k
$2k

Still filing today

78%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $45k · revenue +76%
  • HO
    HOUSE OF THE REDEEMER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $12k · revenue +16%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $9k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • RP
    RUTGERS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF WESTCHESTER
    one grant, 2017 · $600
  • TM
    THE METRO MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2017 · $600
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
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
2
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
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bohemian Foundation. 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

27 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. 27 of the 37 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
21/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $983,697 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDALL SOULS CHURCH: $21,400 · OtherMUSICIANS FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $6,000 · OtherBOHEMIAN FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $2,500 · Other+15 more: $10,879 · OtherCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $45,000 · Recreation & Sports564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCONCERTS IN MOTION INC: $3,200 · Arts & CultureSCHILLER INSTITUTE NYC CHORUS: $2,000 · Arts & CultureLULU & LEO FUND: $1,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK LTD: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $500 · Arts & CultureTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $4,500 · EducationRiverside Language Program Inc: $1,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $900 · Education+2 more: $500 · EducationInternational Rescue Committee INC: $8,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,000 · InternationalHOUSE OF THE REDEEMER: $11,500 · Religion
Community Improvement$983,697Other$61,779Recreation & Sports$45,000Arts & Culture$13,200Education$12,900International$12,500Religion$11,500

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $983,697 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF THE REDEEMER: $11,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERTS IN MOTION INC: $3,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHILLER INSTITUTE NYC CHORUS: $2,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLULU & LEO FUND: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRiverside Language Program Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK LTD: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDarien Book Aid Plan Inc: $600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY: $530 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $200 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The New York Communit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The New York Community TrustNY12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tung Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tung Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    5report 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 37 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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