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YJ Family Charitable Foundation (YJFCF) at a glance

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YJ Family Charitable Foundation (YJFCF)

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.

$4k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Religion$6kHealth$6kHuman Services$5kFood & Nutrition$3kArts & Culture$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$528Youth Development$346Animals$286
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$296
Median grant
3
States reached
$187k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Forerunner Christian Church$1,500
DisabledElderly Care Center$980
GoodWill$586
Alameda county Community Food Bank$335
StampOutHunger Food Drive$296
Boy Scouts of America$234
StJude Childrens Research Hospital$200
American Red Cross$103
The American Cancer Society$100
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.

US giving: 81% of grant dollars ($18k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 19% that went abroad ($4k) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $528) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%American Red Cross: $225 → 14%American Red Cross: $200 → 14%American Red Cross: $103 → 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.

Beyond the US: 19% of all-years giving ($4k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Afghanistan$3k · 3 grants
China$2k · 2 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18k · 10 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 8 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

10
11

Total granted

$18k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+18%

Still filing today

30%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 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
Arts & CultureEmploymentReligionHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • HS
    HOPE SERVICES
    3× · 2020–2023 · $1k · revenue +11%
  • ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    4× · 2020–2025 · $1k · revenue +39%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2021–2025 · $528 · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • SO
    SOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -21%
  • TE
    The Elderly Care Center
    one grant, 2023 · $900
  • PL
    Pacific Locomotive Association Inc Niles Canyon Railwaygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $451 · revenue +228%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FORERUNNER CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $5,820 · OtherFORERUNNER CHRISTIAN CHURCHGoodWill: $3,817 · OtherGoodWillDisabledElderly Care Center: $1,841 · OtherDisabledElderly Care CenterThe Elderly Care: $1,600 · OtherThe Elderly CareALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $1,118 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKThe Elderly Care Center: $900 · OtherStampOutHunger Food Drive: $675 · OtherStJude Childrens Research Hospital: $660 · Other+8 more: $1,839 · Other+8 moreSOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK INC: $1,900 · Arts & CultureSOUND OF HO…Pacific Locomotive Association Inc Niles Canyon Railway: $451 · Arts & CulturePacific Loc…HOPE SERVICES: $1,314 · EmploymentAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $528 · Human ServicesCHINESE CHRISTIAN MISSION INC: $200 · ReligionAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 · Health
Other$18,270Arts & Culture$2,351Employment$1,314Human Services$528Religion$200Health$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK INC: $1,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE SERVICES: $1,314 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $1,118 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $528 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Locomotive Association Inc Niles Canyon Railway: $451 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHINESE CHRISTIAN MISSION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds SOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Locomotive Association Inc Niles Canyon Railway ↗
  • Who funds CHINESE CHRISTIAN MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗

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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 YJ Family Charitable Foundation (YJFCF) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from YJ Family Charitable Foundation (YJFCF). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    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.

    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 22 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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