California · Private foundation
Cheng's 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.
- $11k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $464k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Cheng's Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 40 | $11k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $22k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $28k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $34k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $25k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $55k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $29k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $34k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation | $134,175 | 9 | 0% |
| The University Corporation San Francisco State | $19,900 | 7 | 0% |
| The Peach Foundation | $17,700 | 4 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $7,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Chinese Christian Mission Inc | $3,120 | 8 | 0% |
| Chinese for Christ Berkeley Church | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $2,100 | 8 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $1,600 | 8 | 0% |
| Glide Foundation | $1,600 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($49k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cheng's Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Beulah Land Foundation · McLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION · Lowell Berry Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Analog Devices Foundation
How this is measured
About Cheng's Foundation
- How much does Cheng's Foundation give?
- Cheng's Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $11,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cheng's Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (52%), Education (15%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Cheng's Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation ($134k), The University Corporation San Francisco State ($20k), The Peach Foundation ($18k).
- Does Cheng's Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cheng's 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 Cheng's Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Salesforce Foundation, The Yelp Foundation.
- Where is Cheng's Foundation based?
- Cheng's Foundation is based in CA.
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