California · Private foundation
Wu and Chen Family 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.
- $5k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $215
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $700
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Wu and Chen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $5k | 39% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $4k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $2k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $3k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $2k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $1k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $3k | 69% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $3k | 92% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saratoga Music Boosters | $1,700 | 2 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $1,089 | 2 | 0% |
| Saratoga Education Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Aggieland Humane Society | $602 | 4 | 0% |
| Austin Pets Alive Inc | $530 | 4 | 0% |
| Humane Society Silicon Valley | $452 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of Children with Special Needs | $450 | 2 | 0% |
| Austin Wildlife Rescue | $363 | 2 | 0% |
| Doggie Protective Services for Homeless Tails | $265 | 2 | 0% |
| San Diego Humane Society and Spca | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($16k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wu and Chen Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: United Way Worldwide · Petsmart Charities Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Best Friends Animal Society · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Greater Good Charities · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Wu and Chen Family Foundation
- How much does Wu and Chen Family Foundation give?
- Wu and Chen Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $4,507 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wu and Chen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), International (27%), Animals (17%).
- Who are Wu and Chen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Saratoga Music Boosters ($2k), Save The Children Federation Inc ($1k), Saratoga Education Foundation ($1k).
- Does Wu and Chen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wu and Chen Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wu and Chen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way Worldwide, Petsmart Charities Inc, Aetna Foundation Inc.
- Where is Wu and Chen Family Foundation based?
- Wu and Chen Family Foundation is based in CA.
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