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Yen Chuang Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
AMWA (AMERICAN MEDICAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION)$100,000
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$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

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 (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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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%
+21%

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
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

  • 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 INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue +141%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $55k · revenue +5%
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.

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The Conversationalist
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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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ignite; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
25/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 FOUNDATIONTAIWAN AMERICAN CULTURE CENTER OF EAST BAY (TACC-EB): $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSIY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO: $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 ServicesTAKE THE LEAD INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTURNOUT ACTIVISM INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 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 budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIFWHENHOW: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAIWANESE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetNational Women's Health Network: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRewire News Group: $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
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.

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

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 Yen Chuang Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yen Chuang Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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