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United Charity 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.

$60k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$407kEducation$306kHealth$70kPhilanthropy$50kReligion$33kHuman Services$9k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHINESE AMERICAN MUSEUM$30,000
HONG W MOY FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
CCSM$2,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOWERS MUSEUM: $25k → 10%THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: $100k → 14%AUSTIN CHINESE CHOIR: $3k → 10%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $50k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF IILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $250k → 19%BOWERS MUSEUM: $15k → 10%THE HUNTINGTON: $100k → 14%AUSTIN CHINESE CHOIR: $2k → 10%BOWERS MUSEUM: $10k → 10%HONG W MOY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%AUSTIN CHINESE CHOIR: $2k → 10%OC ASSCOCIATION FOR BUDDHIST PRACTICES: $10k → 10%THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: $25k → 14%HONG W MOY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%ELITE PERFORMING ARTS GROUP USA: $3k → 14%NAMO AMITABHA SOCIETY: $10k → 14%CCSM: $3k → 14%NAMO AMITABHA SOCIETY: $10k → 14%SUN YAT SEN CHINESE INSTITUTRE: $1k → 14%CHINESE FLORAL ARTS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%CHINESE AMERICAN MUSEUM: $30k → 14%FIVE ACRESS: $3k → 14%FIVE ACRESS: $3k → 14%SAN GABRIEL MISSION PLAYHOUSE: $25k → 14%FIVE ACRESS: $3k → 14%SAN GABRIEL MISSION PLAYHOUSE: $25k → 14%FIVE ACRESS: $1k → 14%HONG KONG SCHOOLS ALUMNI FEDERATION: $10k → 14%THE PASADENA CITY COLLEGE: $10k → 14%THE PASADENA CITY COLLEGE: $10k → 14%VANESSA CHEN: $1k → 14%AIRPORT MARINA COUNSELING SERVICE: $10k → 14%FAMILIES FORWARD LEARNING CENTER: $23k → 14%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of United Charity Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 57%.

United Charity Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$333k · 9 repeat orgs$541k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$333k
$508k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+38%

Still filing today

33%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HE
    HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY
    2× · 2019–2023 · $125k · revenue +116%
  • CW
    CHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION
    3× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +28%
  • SG
    SAN GABRIEL MISSION PLAYHOUSE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $50k

Funded once

  • University of Illinois Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +127%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -81%
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
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
2
Foundation for Chinese Cultural Heritage
Philanthropy
3
Center for Advanced China Research
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4
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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5
Pasadena Museum of California Art

To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.

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6
Sun Ten Museum Inc
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7
American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc

Founded in 1995, the american friends of the shanghai museum is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to raise awareness and financial support for the shanghai museum, continuing a distinguished history of patron support for…

Arts & Culture
8
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
9
Uc Chinese Alumni Foundation
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10
Chinese American Medical Society

The Chinese American Medical Society (the Society) was created in the State of NY in 1964. Its mission is to improve the health status of Chinese Americans and to promote excellence in health care for all through the mobilization of health…

Health
11
Yunguang Chan Center

Religious culture and education, meditation and religions comparative study

Education
12
Museum of Collections
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Airport Marina Counseling Service; the most unlike its peers is Hong W Moy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 23 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAN GABRIEL MISSION PLAYHOUSE: $50,000 · OtherSAN GABRIEL MISSION PLAYHOUSEPASADENA SHOWCASE HOUSE: $39,000 · OtherPASADENA SHOWCASE HOUSENAMO AMITABHA SOCIETY: $20,000 · OtherNAMO AMITABHA SOCIETYTHE PASADENA CITY COLLEGE: $20,000 · OtherTHE PASADENA CITY COLLEGEORANGE COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR BUDDHIST PRACTICES INC: $10,000 · OtherPAMC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherHONG KONG SCHOOLS ALUMNI FEDERATION: $10,000 · Other+7 more: $26,500 · Other+7 moreUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $250,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois FoundationFAMILIES FORWARD LEARNING CENTER: $22,500 · EducationFAMILIES FORWARD LEARNING CENTERHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $125,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY…CHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CO…FRIENDS OF THE CHINESE AMERICAN MUSEUM: $30,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE CHINESE AME…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,000 · HealthAIRPORT MARINA COUNSELING SERVICE: $10,000 · HealthHONG W MOY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy
Other$285,500Education$272,500Arts & Culture$205,000Health$60,000Philanthropy$50,000

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 budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONG W MOY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHINESE AMERICAN MUSEUM: $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD LEARNING CENTER: $22,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAIRPORT MARINA COUNSELING SERVICE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPAMC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% 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.

Hong W Moy FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Hong W Moy FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hong W Moy Foundation · 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 United Charity Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Charity Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to United Charity Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to United Charity 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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