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Weng Charitable Trust at a glance

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Weng Charitable Trust

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.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Religion$115kHealth$10kPhilanthropy$5kInternational$4kHuman Services$3kCivil Rights$600Other$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $41k
$300
Median grant
6
States reached
$923k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHINESE CHURCH IN CHRIST$40,800
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY$1,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$1,000
JEWS FOR JESUS$500
CITY TEAM$500
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP$300
CALIFORNIA FAMILY COUNCIL$300
SALVATION ARMY$300
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL$300
BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP$300
A KERNAL OF WHEAT CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES - AKOWCM$100
NAVIGATOR$100
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:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $300 → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $200 → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$88k · 9 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$88k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

56%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
ReligionHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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 CHURCH IN CHRIST
    2× · 2024–2025 · $81k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue 0%
  • CM
    CITYTEAM MINISTRIES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $800 · revenue -11%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHINESE CHURCH IN CHRIST CUPERTINO
    one grant, 2023 · $26k
  • AP
    ALPHA PREGNANCY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +34%
  • UB
    UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $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
Chinese Christian Fellowship Intl

It is ccf's objective to establish training centers in communities all over the world teaching biblical truth to produce in all who are called to be leaders and participants lives in christ's fullness: 1. study god's word with life…

Religion
2
China Soul for Christ Foundation
Religion
3
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

—
4
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
5
Chinese Christianity Network Tv

The purpose of this organization is to let people know jesus is the son of god, through holy sprit, for those who believe in him will not be perished, but will have everlasting life.

Religion
6
Jessica Yoon Ministries

Spread the Christianity

Religion
7
Joyful Korean Community Church

The mission of the church is to go into the world and make disciples by declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Spirit and gathering these disciples into churches, that they might worship the Lord and obey his commands now…

Religion
8
Free to Worship Ministries

This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.

Religion
9
Worldwide Bible Society

We do bible translation with the kingdom perspective, therefore we go beyond making "a" new chinese translation for the chinese only; we strive to serve the ethnic minority groups in china and other countries as well. crossing national and…

Religion
10
Harvest Chinese Christian Church

The following are the main missions of this church: 1)to worship and serve god the holy trinity: the father, the son and the holy spirit. 2)to spread the kingdom of god and to proclaim the gospel of jesus christ through words and acts.…

Religion
11
Redeemed Christian Church of God

To strengthen marriages and families, to encourage Christian fellowship as we evangelize the lost around us and minister to the needy with the resources God has blessed us.

Religion
12
Korean World Mission Council
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bible Study Fellowship; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

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 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHINESE CHURCH IN CHRIST: $80,800 · OtherCHINESE CHURCH IN CHRISTCHINESE CHURCH IN CHRIST CUPERTINO: $26,400 · OtherCHINESE CHURCH IN CHRIST CUPERTINOUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $3,400 · OtherFOR ALL SAINTS TEAM MINISTRIES: $5,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $4,000 · ReligionCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $800 · Religion+4 more: $1,000 · ReligionALPHA PREGNANCY CENTER: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $200 · HealthCALIFORNIA FAMILY COUNCIL: $600 · Civil RightsFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $500 · Human Services
Other$115,600Religion$10,800Health$10,200Civil Rights$600Human Services$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 budgetALPHA PREGNANCY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFOR ALL SAINTS TEAM MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FAMILY COUNCIL: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Kernel of Wheat Christian Ministries: $300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Children with Special Needs: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE CHRISTIAN MISSION INC: $100 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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Weng Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Weng Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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.

    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 19 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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