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Yin-Zhang Family Charity and Education Foundation

$67k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
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 FY20202025.

Education$178kHealth$23kInternational$13kRecreation & Sports$8kArts & Culture$3kSocial Science$2kPhilanthropy$500Religion$500
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$40,000
NEW MEXICO MILITARY INSTITUTE$20,000
ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS$6,702
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (OCSA: $11k → 10%Care Mission: $500 → 14%AMERICAN FLYING TIGERS INSTITUTE: $2k → 16%NEW MEXICO MILITARY INSTITUTE (NMMI) FOUNDATION: $20k → 20%Brigham Young University: $15k → 8%Toastmasters International: $3k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $40k → 14%ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (OCSA): $10k → 10%Franklin Foundation: $500 → 14%NEW MEXICO MILITARY INSTITUTE: $20k → 20%Brigham Young University: $7k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $40k → 14%ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $7k → 10%LDS CHURCH: $500 → 8%Chinese American Mutual Association: $3k → 10%TROY NJROTC BOOSTER CLUB: $5k → 10%PINGPONG DIPLOMACY: $10k → 10%DONATION TO PING PONG DIPLOMACY: $8k → 10%Ping-Pong Diplomacy: $3k → 10%HOPE RXX FOUNDATION: $23k → 10%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.

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$143k · 4 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$143k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+19%

Still filing today

75%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
EducationHealthInternationalArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • University of Chicago
    2× · 2024–2025 · $80k · revenue +15%
  • OC
    ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $28k · revenue +14%
  • BY
    BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $22k

Funded once

  • HF
    HOPERXX FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $23k · 42% of their budget
  • NM
    NEW MEXICO MILITARY INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +19%
  • DT
    DONATION TO PING PONG DIPLOMACY
    one grant, 2023 · $8k

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.

1
California Institute of Contemporary Art
2
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Foundation of America (Sjtufa)
Education
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Uc Chinese Alumni Foundation
5
The California Endowment
Philanthropy
6
The Kimmy Duong Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundationinc

Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundation, Inc. ("FFOF") was established by five alumni from Fudan Fuzhong, the high school affiliated with Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Fudan University is one of the leading institutes of higher education…

Education
8
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
9
National Institute of Mexican American History of Civil Rights
Civil Rights
10
The National Academy of Education
Arts & Culture
11
The National Cheng Kung University North America Alumni Foudation Inc

1) Promote the welfare and friendship of the members, to publicize their achievements, and to assist them in social and cultural activities. 2) Support our alma mater to promote major projects, to cultivate and recruit outstanding faculty,…

Education
12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Pingpong Diplomacy. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Chicago — $80,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS — $28,379 · EducationORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTSNEW MEXICO MILITARY INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationNEW MEXICO MILITARY INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INCTROY NJROTC BOOSTER CLUB INC — $5,000 · EducationBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY — $22,000 · OtherBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITYNEW MEXICO MILITARY INSTITUTE — $20,000 · OtherNEW MEXICO MILITARY INSTIT…DONATION TO PING PONG DIPLOMACY — $7,500 · OtherDONATION TO PING PONG DIPL…AMERICAN FLYING TIGERS INSTITUTE — $2,000 · Other+2 more — $1,000 · OtherHOPERXX FOUNDATION — $22,800 · HealthHOPERXX FOU…+1 more — $500 · HealthPINGPONG DIPLOMACY — $12,500 · InternationalChinese American Mutual Association — $3,000 · Arts & CultureTOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL — $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Education$133,379Other$52,500Health$23,300International$12,500Arts & Culture$3,000Recreation & Sports$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Chicago — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS — $28,379 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPERXX FOUNDATION — $22,800 over 1y, 42% of budgetNEW MEXICO MILITARY INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPINGPONG DIPLOMACY — $12,500 over 2y, 100% of budgetTROY NJROTC BOOSTER CLUB INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetChinese American Mutual Association — $3,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 Yin-Zhang Family Charity and Education 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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

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    How do I get to Yin-Zhang Family Charity and Education Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Yin-Zhang Family Charity and Education 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 15 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.

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