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Yen Chuang Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$392k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Civil Rights$494kHealth$399kEducation$224kArts & Culture$151kRecreation & Sports$100kHuman Services$93kPublic Benefit$83kFood & Nutrition$74kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$100,000
AMWA (AMERICAN MEDICAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION)$100,000
TAIWAN AMERICAN CULTURE CENTER OF EAST BAY (TACC-EB)$50,000
TURNOUT ACTIVISM INC$50,000
HERMEDICINE$37,500
TAKE THE LEAD INC$20,000
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY$10,000
TACNC$6,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$6,000
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION$5,000
TAIWANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE$5,000
PHYSICIANS FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH$2,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $10k → 17%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $10k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $9k → 8%TAKE THE LEAD INC: $20k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $8k → 8%POWER TO DECIDE: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
KY
VA
AR
DC
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$828k · 17 repeat orgs$909k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
27

Total granted

$828k
$595k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+6%

Still filing today

94%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $314k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsEducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • FM
    FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $250k · revenue +22%
  • PF
    Physicians For Reproductive Health
    4× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +29%
  • TA
    TURNOUT ACTIVISM INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +364%

Funded once

  • I
    IGNITE
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue -61%
  • SI
    SEXUALITY INFORMATION AND EDUCATION COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $55k · revenue +5%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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The Conversationalist
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2
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
3
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
4
National Institute for Reproductive Health Inc

National institute for reproductive health, inc. works to protect and advance equitable access to reproductive health care by building power at the state and local level. using an approach that is rooted in partnerships with state and…

Civil Rights
5
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
6
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
7
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
8
Womens Funding Network

Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.

Education
9
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
10
American Association of University Women Inc

Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.

Education
11
Women Deliver Inc

Women deliver is a global feminist advocacy organization with a clear mission: to ensure that every self-identifying girl and woman has control over her body and life. see organization's full mission statement in schedule o.

Education
12
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ignite and the most unlike its peers is Silicon Valley Canaan Evergreen Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,523

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
24/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION — $250,000 · OtherFEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATIONUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONAMWA (AMERICAN MEDICAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION) — $100,000 · OtherAMWA (AMERICAN MEDICAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION)SEXUALITY INFORMATION AND EDUCATION COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $75,000 · OtherSEXUALITY INFORMATION AND EDUCATION COUNCIL OF THE UNITED ST…REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $59,559 · OtherREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATIONUNIVERSIY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO — $50,000 · OtherTAIWAN AMERICAN CULTURE CENTER OF EAST BAY (TACC-EB) — $50,000 · OtherADVOCATES FOR YOUTH — $38,000 · OtherNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $60,000 · OtherNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INCSPRINGBOARD 2000 ENTERPRISES INC — $35,000 · Other+14 more — $150,200 · Other+14 morePhysicians For Reproductive Health — $69,500 · Civil RightsPhysicians For…TURNOUT ACTIVISM INC — $60,000 · Civil RightsTURNOUT ACTIVI…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $35,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL…VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsVOTO LATINO FO…Catholics for Choice — $11,000 · Civil RightsIFWHENHOW — $10,000 · Civil Rights+3 more — $7,000 · Civil RightsMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $90,000 · EducationMassachusetts…IGNITE — $80,000 · EducationIGNITEUniversity of Chicago — $26,000 · EducationUniversity of…PROF CHEN WEN-CHEN MEMORIAL FDATION — $20,000 · EducationPROF CHEN WEN…+1 more — $2,400 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $55,000 · HealthPLANNED P…BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION — $53,000 · HealthBILL HILL…HERMEDICINE — $37,500 · HealthHERMEDICI…National Women's Health Network — $6,000 · HealthTAIWANESE AMERICAN CULTURE CENTER OF EAST BAY — $50,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INC — $41,000 · Arts & CultureTAIWANESE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePOWER TO DECIDE — $25,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesTAKE THE LEAD INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC — $17,000 · Human ServicesSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $74,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$967,759Civil Rights$232,500Education$218,400Health$151,500Arts & Culture$101,000Human Services$82,000Food & Nutrition$74,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIGNITE — $80,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSEXUALITY INFORMATION AND EDUCATION COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $75,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $74,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians For Reproductive Health — $69,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTURNOUT ACTIVISM INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $59,559 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION — $53,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTAIWANESE AMERICAN CULTURE CENTER OF EAST BAY — $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $41,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetADVOCATES FOR YOUTH — $38,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHERMEDICINE — $37,500 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetSPRINGBOARD 2000 ENTERPRISES INC — $35,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAIWANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE — $31,200 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOWER TO DECIDE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROF CHEN WEN-CHEN MEMORIAL FDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC — $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMBRIDGE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CONSULTANTS — $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCatholics for Choice — $11,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTAIWANESE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIFWHENHOW — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Women's Health Network — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRewire News Group — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSILICON VALLEY CANAAN EVERGREEN ACADEMY — $2,400 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetNORTH AMERICA TAIWANESE WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRELIGIOUS COALITION FOR REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Skb FoundationThe David and Lucile …The Ford FoundationTides FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…The Susan Thompson Bu…The Prentice Foundati…Hopewell FundImpactassetsincThe William & Flora H…
Skb FoundationCA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Yen Chuang Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Yen Chuang Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Yen Chuang Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines