Nevada · Private foundation
Yu and Wei Foundation
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.
- $171k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,533
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $138,889
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Yu and Wei Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 5 | $171k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $155k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $190k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $144k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $133k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $126k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $50k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $26k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Ray Wu Memorial Fund Inc | $508,290 | 6 | 75% |
| The Peach Foundation | $62,353 | 9 | 1% |
| Fangcao Reading Circle | $24,257 | 3 | 2% |
| Tahoe Fund | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Fudan University Education Development Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Bayhelix Group | $4,091 | 1 | 9% |
| The Austin Chen Tsai Foundation | $1,100 | 1 | 0% |
| American Society of Plant Biologists | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tahoe Rim Trail Association | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $840 | 7 | 0% |
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($399k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Yu and Wei Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Yu and Wei Foundation
- How much does Yu and Wei Foundation give?
- Yu and Wei Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $171,096 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Yu and Wei Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (46%), Education (38%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Yu and Wei Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Ray Wu Memorial Fund Inc ($508k), The Peach Foundation ($62k), Fangcao Reading Circle ($24k).
- Does Yu and Wei Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Yu and Wei Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Yu and Wei Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Yu and Wei Foundation based?
- Yu and Wei Foundation is based in NV.
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