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Tzeng & Jiang Foundation

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.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kArts & Culture$3kMembership Benefit$2kInternational$2kReligion$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$413k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CUPERTINO EDU ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION$3,500
THE ASTRONAUTS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$1,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,000
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED$1,000
ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTECHINA$1,000
TZU CHI FOUNDATION$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$750
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$750
FILOLIFF$500
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.

Your US giving — 86% of grant dollars ($18k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 14% that went abroad ($3k) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 8%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.

Beyond the US — 14% of all-years giving ($3k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Taiwan$2k · 1 grant
Eswatini$1k · 1 grant

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5k · 3 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$5k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+26%

Still filing today

67%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureInternationalReligionHuman ServicesOther

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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +46%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue +39%
  • MV
    MONTA VISTA HIGH SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2019 · $290

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TSENG CLAN ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +26%

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
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
4
The Uc Davis Foundation

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

Education
5
Indiana University Foundation

The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…

Education
6
Cal State East Bay Educational Foundation

To accept and manage restricted and unrestricted gifts benefiting california state university east bay. additionally, the trustees support the university through advocacy, development, personal contributions and counsel to the university's…

Education
7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
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.…

9
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
10
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
11
Miami University Foundation

Support of miami university

Education
12
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carnegie Mellon University and the most unlike its peers is American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE TSENG CLAN ASSOCIATION — $2,000 · OtherTHE TSENG CLAN ASSOCIATIONIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientINTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED — $1,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE REDCarnegie Mellon University — $1,000 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversityCA YOUTH SYMPHONY — $500 · OtherCA YOUTH SYMPHONYCMU — $500 · OtherCMUFILOLIFF — $500 · OtherFILOLIFFMONTA VISTA HIGH SCHOOL — $290 · Other+2 more — $350 · OtherCUPERTINO EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $3,500 · EducationCUPERTINO EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENT FO…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $2,150 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $750 · EducationUniversity of Illinois FoundationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,750 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…ASTRONAUTS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA — $1,000 · InternationalBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Religion
Other$8,140Education$6,400Human Services$2,750Arts & Culture$1,500International$1,000Religion$1,000

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 budgetCUPERTINO EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $2,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASTRONAUTS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $750 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Tzeng & Jiang 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Astronauts Memorial Foundation Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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

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How do I get to Tzeng & Jiang Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tzeng & Jiang 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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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