California · Private foundation
Yan and Liu Family Private 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.
- $9k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,145
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 9
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $255k
- 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 Yan and Liu Family Private Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 8 | $9k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $5k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $5k | 88% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $12k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $4k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Usfamilye Inc | $4,999 | 3 | 9% |
| Crochet Circle | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Newstar Youth Foundation | $2,073 | 2 | n/a |
| The Harker School | $1,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Be the Change Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beta University | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| KISS Institute for Practical Robotics | $450 | 3 | 0% |
| Alliance for Impact Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| California Academy of Sciences | $299 | 1 | 0% |
| Aquatics Booster Club | $204 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Usfamilye Inc | $4,999 | 3 | 9% |
| Crochet Circle | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Newstar Youth Foundation | $2,073 | 2 | n/a |
| The Harker School | $1,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Be the Change Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beta University | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| KISS Institute for Practical Robotics | $450 | 3 | 0% |
| Alliance for Impact Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| California Academy of Sciences | $299 | 1 | 0% |
| Aquatics Booster Club | $204 | 1 | 0% |
| Reach to Rize | $200 | 1 | n/a |
| The Exploratorium | $149 | 1 | 0% |
| ACP Foundation | $70 | 2 | 0% |
| Towercares Foundation Inc | $35 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Yan and Liu Family Private 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: Texas Instruments Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Yan and Liu Family Private Foundation with peer funders
About Yan and Liu Family Private Foundation
- How much does Yan and Liu Family Private Foundation give?
- Yan and Liu Family Private Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $9,495 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Yan and Liu Family Private Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Youth Development (17%), Community Improvement (16%).
- Who are Yan and Liu Family Private Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Usfamilye Inc ($5k), Crochet Circle ($3k), Newstar Youth Foundation ($2k).
- Does Yan and Liu Family Private Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Yan and Liu Family Private 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 Yan and Liu Family Private Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Texas Instruments Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Yan and Liu Family Private Foundation based?
- Yan and Liu Family Private Foundation is based in CA.
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