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Zhiyuan Yining Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$266k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$179kPhilanthropy$150kReligion$105kHealth$55kRecreation & Sports$4kCivil Rights$3kCommunity Improvement$2kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $205k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MICHAEL AND AMBER CHANGE FOUNDATION$150,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATI$55,000
FAITH IN GRACE BIBLE CHURCH$20,000
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN$15,000
ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$13,000
BEIJING ASSOCIATION OF N CALIFORNIA$3,000
KISS INSTITUTE PRACTICAL ROBOTICS$3,000
XIAMEN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATIO$3,000
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS$1,600
CHINESE AMERICAN PROFESSORS ASSOCIA$1,000
SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY MEDIA$1,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MICHAEL AND AMBER CHANGE FOUNDATION: $150k → 10%BEIJING ASSOCIATION OF N CALIFORNIA: $3k → 10%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $13k → 28%KISS INSTITUTE PRACTICAL ROBOTICS: $3k → 13%CHINESE AMERICAN PROFESSORS ASSOCIA: $1k → 11%CHINESE AMERICAN PROFESSORS' ASSOCIATION IN CONNECTICUT: $1k → 11%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $17k → 14%XIAMEN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATIO: $3k → 8%HAPPY CRITTERS RESCUE: $2k → 10%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $3k → 28%KISS INSTITUTE OF PRACTICAL ROBOTICS: $2k → 13%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $15k → 14%XIAMEN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATIO: $2k → 8%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC: $5k → 28%KISS INSTITUTE FOR PRACTICAL ROBOTICS: $2k → 13%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $13k → 14%QIGONG ACADEMY TAI JI MEN: $2k → 8%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC: $3k → 28%KISS INSTITUTE OF PRACTICAL ROBOTICS: $2k → 13%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $11k → 14%XIAMEN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $2k → 8%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC: $3k → 28%KISS INSTITUTE OF PRACTICAL ROBOTICS: $1k → 13%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $6k → 14%XIAMEN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $1k → 8%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC: $1k → 28%KISS INSTITUTE OF PRACTICAL ROBOTICS: $1k → 13%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $6k → 14%XIAMEN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $1k → 8%THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATI: $55k → 13%THE HARKER SCHOOL: $10k → 8%THE HARKER SCHOOL: $10k → 8%THE HARKER SCHOOL: $1k → 8%THE HARKER SCHOOL: $1k → 8%LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS: $2k → 8%FAITH IN GRACE BIBLE CHURCH: $35k → 8%FAITH IN GRACE BIBLE CHURCH: $20k → 8%FAITH IN GRACE BIBLE CHURCH: $13k → 8%FAITH IN GRACE BIBLE CHURCH: $12k → 8%FAITH IN GRACE BIBLE CHURCH: $9k → 8%FAITH IN GRACE BIBLE CHURCH: $6k → 8%FAITH IN GRACE BIBLE CHURCH: $5k → 8%FAITH IN GRACE BIBLE CHURCH: $5k → 8%MOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS BOOSTERS: $2k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $25k → 8%STANDFORD HEALTH CARE HOSPITAL: $11k → 8%STANDFORD HEALTH CARE HOSPITAL: $3k → 8%STANDFORD HEALTH CARE HOSPITAL: $2k → 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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$261k · 10 repeat orgs$243k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against -45% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$261k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
-45%

Still filing today

40%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
    6× · 2019–2024 · $68k · revenue +8%
  • TH
    THE HARKER SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2022 · $22k · revenue +38%
  • UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT
    3× · 2017–2019 · $600 · revenue +277%

Funded once

  • SU
    STANFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • QA
    QIGONG ACADEMY TAI JI MEN
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • MV
    MOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS BOOSTERSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +165%
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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Uc Chinese Alumni Foundation
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2
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

Education
3
University Foundation
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4
Cheng Kung University Foundation

Provided scholarship

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5
Hkanc Scholarship Foundation

The foundation's sole activity is the awarding of scholarships to undergraduate and graduate university students of high academic distinction. this is based on the belief that investing in today's youth will help to ensure that students…

Philanthropy
6
The Underdog Foundation
Youth Development
7
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Foundation of America (Sjtufa)
Education
8
Stanbridge University Foundation
Education
9
Seattle University Foundation

Fundraising activities to support Seattle University

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10
Morton Ranch High School Athletic Booster Club

Support morton ranch athletes

Education
11
Riggs Student Scholarship Fund
Philanthropy
12
University Development Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement; the most unlike its peers is Michael and Amber Chang Foundation. 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAITH IN GRACE BIBLE CHURCH: $105,299 · OtherFAITH IN GRACE BIBLE CHURCHALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $27,700 · OtherALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINESTANFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $25,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALSTANDFORD HEALTH CARE HOSPITAL: $15,795 · OtherSTANDFORD HEALTH CARE HOSPITAL+10 more: $20,943 · Other+10 moreRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $68,000 · EducationRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGNUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION I…THE HARKER SCHOOL: $22,000 · EducationTHE HARKER SCHOOLKISS Institute for Practical Robotics: $10,500 · EducationKISS Institute for Practical Roboti…+1 more: $600 · EducationMICHAEL AND AMBER CHANG FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropyMICHAEL AND AMBER CHANG FOUNDATIO…MOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS BOOSTERS: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsSILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY MEDIA: $1,000 · Arts & CultureRescue the Underdog: $500 · Animals
Other$194,737Education$156,100Philanthropy$150,000Recreation & Sports$1,500Arts & Culture$1,000Animals$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 budgetMICHAEL AND AMBER CHANG FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $68,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARKER SCHOOL: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKISS Institute for Practical Robotics: $10,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MARIN COUNTY: $1,600 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS BOOSTERS: $1,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRescue the Underdog: $500 over 1y, 0.5% 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 MICHAEL AND AMBER CHANG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HARKER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds KISS Institute for Practical Robotics ↗
  • Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MARIN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS BOOSTERS ↗
  • Who funds SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
  • Who funds Rescue the Underdog ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CHINATOWN LIONS CLUB ↗

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Kiss Institute for Practical Robotics: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 Zhiyuan Yining Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Zhiyuan Yining 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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