· Private foundation
Walter and Fannie Wang 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
71% of Walter and Fannie Wang Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to University Of Southern California, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Walter and Fannie Wang Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $15k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN JOSE CHINESE CATHOLIC MISSION | $2,600 |
| DORIS DILLON IN CAMBODIA | $2,500 |
| SAN JOSE CHINESE SCHOOL | $2,100 |
| QUICKSILVER SWIMMING | $1,300 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | $1,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| KHAN ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| BRET HARTE COMMUNITY CLUB | $1,000 |
| THE TECH INTERACTIVE | $500 |
| CHINESE AMERICAN MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER | $500 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $500 |
| BOYS TOWN | $500 |
| WILLIAMS WINS FOUNDATION | $350 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2019, 11 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KAKHAN ACADEMY INC5× · 2019–2024 · $5k · revenue +154%
- SJSAN JOSE CHINESE SCHOOL2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +11%
- BHBRET HARTE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION4× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +285%
Funded once
- FAFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +6%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
- TETHE EXPLORATORIUMone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -14%
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.
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.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
To educate caring, inspired health care professionals who are prepared to deliver collaborative, patient-centric health care in an interprofessional environment.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 46 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HANDS OF LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF UT ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE CHINESE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BRET HARTE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds QUICKSILVER SWIMMING ↗
- Who funds LELAND HIGH SCHOOL PARENT CLUB ↗
- Who funds FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds THE EXPLORATORIUM ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DON CALLEJON SCHOOL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Kla Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Walter and Fannie Wang Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter and Fannie Wang Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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