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Wu Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Wu Family Charitable 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.

$187k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$152kArts & Culture$141kEducation$135kYouth Development$79kInternational$35k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$34,600
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEADERS IN TECH INC$50,000
APEX FOR YOUTH INC$44,600
LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB$34,600
NEW STORY INC$34,600
WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INC$10,000
SILVER ART PROJECTS INC$8,500
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (FY22–24, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE: $35k → 11%NEW STORY INC: $117k → 13%NEW STORY INC: $35k → 13%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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$267k · 3 repeat orgs$270k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
3

Total granted

$267k
$183k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+40%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NS
    NEW STORY INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $152k · revenue -10%
  • LI
    LEADERS IN TECH INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $95k · revenue +117%
  • WS
    WILDWOOD SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • BL
    BRUCE LEE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $133k · revenue +40% · 89% of their budget
  • EC
    EASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -74%
  • TJ
    THE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +53%
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
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
2
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
3
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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4
Brown School

Running a private school.

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5
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

—
6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
The Language Academy of Sacramento

The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…

Education
8
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
9
Inwood Academy for Leadership Charter School

To empower students in the inwood and washington heights area of new york city to become agents for change through community-focused leadership, character development, and college preparedness.

Education
10
The Brighton School Inc

To provide independent elementary education, specializing in gifted education for grades pre-kindergarten through grade six.

Education
11
Young Leaders Council

To train diverse, committed individuals to effectively participate on the boards of nonprofit organizations and make a difference in the community by replenishing the volunteer leadership base.

Employment
12
Lawrence School

Teach students using diverse learning strategies, ignite their potential and inspire academic, personal and social success

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Apex for Youth Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bruce Lee Foundation Inc. 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

10 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW STORY INC: $151,513 · Human ServicesNEW STORY INCEASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE: $35,000 · Human ServicesEASTERN CONGO INITIATIVEBRUCE LEE FOUNDATION INC: $132,672 · Arts & CultureBRUCE LEE FOUNDATION INCSILVER ART PROJECTS INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureSILVER ART PROJECTS INCLEADERS IN TECH INC: $95,000 · EducationLEADERS IN TECH INCWILDWOOD SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · EducationWILDWOOD SCHOOL INCUCLA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationAPEX FOR YOUTH INC: $44,600 · Community ImprovementAPEX FOR …THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC: $34,600 · Youth DevelopmentTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $15,000 · Other
Human Services$186,513Arts & Culture$141,172Education$120,000Community Improvement$44,600Youth Development$34,600Other$15,000

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 budgetNEW STORY INC: $151,513 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBRUCE LEE FOUNDATION INC: $132,672 over 1y, 89% of budgetLEADERS IN TECH INC: $95,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetAPEX FOR YOUTH INC: $44,600 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE: $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC: $34,600 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWILDWOOD SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSILVER ART PROJECTS INC: $8,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $5,000 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · 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 Wu Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wu Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%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 10 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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