· Private foundation
Ziyao Liu Charitable Trust
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tenacre Country Day School | $3,300 |
| Milton Academy | $3,000 |
| Red Cross | $2,000 |
| MIT | $1,000 |
| Noble and Greenough School | $1,000 |
| Dana-Farber | $175 |
| Athletes Unlimited Newton | $111 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION7× · 2019–2025 · $11k · revenue +42%
MILTON ACADEMY2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +10%
NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL3× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- FOFamily of Gen Sunone grant, 2021 · $10k
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +15%
- APAustin Preparatory Schoolone grant, 2020 · $200
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.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Dana hall is an independent boarding and day school for girls in grades five through twelve.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Friends of dana-farber cancer institute supports the efforts of the dana-farber cancer institute.
Gloucester marine genomics institute's mission is to address critical challenges in ocean health, human health, and the environment through innovative marine biotechnology research and transformative science education. by combining…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Education and Research
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 TENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH ROAD RACE INC ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds BE LIKE BRIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GAINING GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ziyao Liu Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ziyao Liu Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc: 5% of income from government
- Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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