California · Private foundation
Chock Tsai 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.
- $6k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,159
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $163k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Chock Tsai Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 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 | 21 | $6k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $6k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $6k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $5k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $5k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $6,159 | 6 | 0% |
| Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation | $2,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $2,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Live 4 Evan Inc | $1,897 | 6 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $1,500 | 5 | 0% |
| National Taiwan University Academic Development Foundation | $1,300 | 3 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $1,200 | 5 | n/a |
| Kqed Inc | $600 | 6 | 0% |
| Challenge Success | $600 | 3 | 0% |
| Peninsula Open Space Trust | $600 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $6,159 | 6 | 0% |
| Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation | $2,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $2,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Live 4 Evan Inc | $1,897 | 6 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $1,500 | 5 | 0% |
| National Taiwan University Academic Development Foundation | $1,300 | 3 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $1,200 | 5 | n/a |
| Kqed Inc | $600 | 6 | 0% |
| Challenge Success | $600 | 3 | 0% |
| Peninsula Open Space Trust | $600 | 6 | 0% |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| National Wildlife Federation | $500 | 5 | 0% |
| National Park Foundation | $500 | 5 | 0% |
| Center for Healing by Design Inc | $300 | 1 | n/a |
| AARP Foundation | $250 | 2 | 0% |
| National Parks Conservation Association | $200 | 2 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $200 | 2 | 0% |
| Save The Bay | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chock Tsai 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Chock Tsai Foundation
- How much does Chock Tsai Foundation give?
- Chock Tsai Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $6,209 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Chock Tsai Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Education (24%), Environment (13%).
- Who are Chock Tsai Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc ($6k), Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation ($2k), Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($2k).
- Does Chock Tsai Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chock Tsai 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 Chock Tsai Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Chock Tsai Foundation based?
- Chock Tsai Foundation is based in CA.
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