California · Private foundation
Yen Chuang Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $392k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Yen Chuang Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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 | 12 | $392k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $250k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $332k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $361k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $162k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $240k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feminist Majority Foundation | $250,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Ignite | $80,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $74,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Physicians For Reproductive Health | $69,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Turnout Activism Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 1% |
| National Network of Abortion Funds Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation | $59,559 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $55,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation | $53,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($353k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Yen Chuang 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: Skb Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · The Prentice Foundation Inc · Hopewell Fund · Impactassetsinc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
How this is measured
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About Yen Chuang Foundation
- How much does Yen Chuang Foundation give?
- Yen Chuang Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $392,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Yen Chuang Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (27%), Health (22%), Education (12%).
- Who are Yen Chuang Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Feminist Majority Foundation ($250k), Ignite ($80k), Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States Inc ($75k).
- Does Yen Chuang Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Yen Chuang Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Yen Chuang Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Skb Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Ford Foundation.
- Where is Yen Chuang Foundation based?
- Yen Chuang Foundation is based in CA.
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