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Ty Lee Family Foundation Inc Ima Attn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$254k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$272kYouth Development$100kInternational$65kEducation$15kHealth$10kHousing & Shelter$8kCivil Rights$5kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $104k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$7,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New City Kids$100,000
CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF NJ$24,000
LEARN TO EARN SOUTH AFRICA$20,000
SIM USA$20,000
THE RIVER CHURCH OF NEW JERSEY$10,000
CHRISTIAN COUNSELING AND EDUCATION$10,000
LIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$10,000
LIGONIER MINISTRIES$10,000
BRIGHTSIDE MANOR$7,500
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP$7,500
MISSION TO THE WORLD$7,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE STUDENTS MINISTRY$5,000
LOVE 146$5,000
TEAM$5,000
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 (FY25–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $1k → 4%BRIGHTSIDE MANOR: $8k → 7%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
WI
MI
NY
PA
NJ
CO
TN
NC
DC
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$284k · 5 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$284k
$10k

Still filing today

20%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CC
    CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF NJ
    6× · 2020–2025 · $161k
  • AF
    AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +13%
  • SU
    SIM USA INCORPORATED
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k

Funded once

  • OM
    OPERATION MOBILIZATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • MG
    MESA GLOBAL
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Institute of Chinese Studies

ChinsSource is a trusted partner and platform for educating the global church on critical issues facing the church and ministries in China and for connecting Christians inside and outside China to advance the kingdom of God globally

International
2
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
3
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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4
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
5
Compassion International Incorporated

Compassion exists to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. Compassion serves all children, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.

International
6
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
7
Lifewater Inc

Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.

Environment
8
Lakelight Institute

Lakelight Institute equips Christians with timeless wisdom for modern life.

Religion
9
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
10
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
11
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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12
International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ambassadors for Christ Inc; the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 22 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF NJ: $161,200 · OtherCHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF NJSIM USA INCORPORATED: $40,000 · OtherSIM USA INCORPORATEDLEARN TO EARN SOUTH AFRICA: $20,000 · OtherLEARN TO EARN SOUTH AFRICAMISSION TO THE WORLD: $12,000 · OtherTHE RIVER CHURCH OF NEW JERSEY: $10,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN COUNSELING AND EDUCATION: $10,000 · Other+7 more: $32,000 · Other+7 moreNEW CITY KIDS INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW CITY KIDS INCAMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC: $56,152 · ReligionAMBASSADORS FOR …Ligonier Ministries Inc: $10,000 · ReligionLigonier Ministr…InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $7,500 · ReligionInterVarsity Chr…ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationGERIATRIC SERVICES INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesLOVE146 INC: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$295,200Youth Development$100,000Religion$73,652Education$15,000Human Services$8,500Crime & Legal$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW CITY KIDS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC: $56,152 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetALLIANCE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE146 INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds NEW CITY KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Ligonier Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
  • Who funds GERIATRIC SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds LOVE146 INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL 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 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 Ty Lee Family Foundation Inc Ima Attn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ty Lee Family Foundation Inc Ima Attn. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • LOVE146 Inc: 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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