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Zhang Initiative 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.

$107k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$545kHealth$153kPublic Safety & Disaster$148kPhilanthropy$81kReligion$16kYouth Development$2kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HARKER SCHOOL$100,000
ZHEDA ALUMNI FOUNDATION$7,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MIT: $76k → 8%CHINESE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%BRIGHAM WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $2k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL: $2k → 8%THE DORRIS-EATON PARENTS ASSOCIATIO: $6k → 9%YOUTH ECULID ASSO: $1k → 10%NASSAU HEALTH CARE CORP: $26k → 6%STONEY BROOK UNIVERSITY: $22k → 7%ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY EDU FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $16k → 11%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $2k → 14%ASE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%THE HARKER SCHOOL: $100k → 8%YOUTH ECULID ASSO: $1k → 10%GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL: $22k → 7%ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY EDU FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%THE HARKER SCHOOL: $100k → 8%ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY EDU FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%THE HARKER SCHOOL: $100k → 8%THE HARKER SCHOOL: $100k → 8%THE HARKER SCHOOL: $100k → 8%ZHEDA ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%ZHEDA ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $7k → 8%ZHEDA ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%ZHEDA ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%ZHEDA ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%LOS GATOS BALLET FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%LOS GATOS BALLET FOUNDATION: $600 → 8%TIANMU EDUCATION: $62k → 8%TIANMU EDUCATION: $1k → 8%VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $71k → 8%EL CAMINO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%STANFORD HEALTH CARE: $3k → 8%THE HARKER SCHOOL: $102k → 8%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.
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$711k · 7 repeat orgs$267k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
15

Total granted

$711k
$267k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+26%

Still filing today

43%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & 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

  • TH
    THE HARKER SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $602k · revenue +21%
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $4k · revenue +51%
  • LG
    LOS GATOS BALLET FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +249%

Funded once

  • M
    MIT
    one grant, 2021 · $76k
  • VH
    VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $71k · revenue +112%
  • NH
    NASSAU HEALTH CARE CORP
    one grant, 2021 · $26k
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.

1
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
Sutter Health

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
4
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
5
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
6
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
9
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
10
Usc Health System

The Corporation is a nonprofit public benefit corporation and is not organized for the private gain of any person. It is organized under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for public and charitable purposes. The Corporation is…

Health
11
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
12
Usc Care Medical Group Inc

To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dorris-Eaton Parents Association. 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

11 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. 11 of the 23 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)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HARKER SCHOOL: $602,000 · EducationTHE HARKER SCHOOL+2 more: $9,700 · EducationMIT: $76,160 · OtherMITIndividual grant recipient: $63,440 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNASSAU HEALTH CARE CORP: $26,080 · OtherNASSAU HEALTH CARE CORPZHEDA ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $23,000 · OtherZHEDA ALUMNI FOUNDATIONSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE AT PURCHASE: $22,200 · OtherSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK…GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL: $22,200 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITALZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY EDU FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY EDU FOUN…+5 more: $18,230 · Other+5 moreVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF): $71,114 · HealthVALLEY HEA…STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $16,400 · HealthSTATEN ISL…CHINESE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $4,800 · HealthDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $81,000 · PhilanthropyLOS GATOS BALLET FOUNDATION: $1,600 · Arts & CultureWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,500 · International
Education$611,700Other$266,310Health$97,314Philanthropy$81,000Arts & Culture$1,600International$1,500

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 budgetTHE HARKER SCHOOL: $602,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $81,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF): $71,114 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $16,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDorris-Eaton Parents Association: $5,500 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $4,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTANFORD HEALTH CARE: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS GATOS BALLET FOUNDATION: $1,600 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,500 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 THE HARKER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) ↗
  • Who funds STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Dorris-Eaton Parents Association ↗
  • Who funds CHINESE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STANFORD HEALTH CARE ↗
  • Who funds PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital ↗
  • Who funds LOS GATOS BALLET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Zhang Initiative Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zhang Initiative Foundation. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Zhang Initiative Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Zhang Initiative 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 23 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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