California · Private foundation
Choong & Hsia 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.
- $156k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Choong & Hsia 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; $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 | 5 | $154k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $124k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $63k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $112k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $131k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $101k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $30k | 80% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $116k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon State University Foundation | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| 80-20 Educational Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Soar Foundation | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Taiwan University Academic Development Foundation | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jinan Sacramento Sister City | $2,500 | 1 | 7% |
| The Uc Davis Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Natomas Charter School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $200 | 2 | 0% |
| American Institute for Cancer Research | $100 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon State University Foundation | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| 80-20 Educational Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Soar Foundation | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Taiwan University Academic Development Foundation | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jinan Sacramento Sister City | $2,500 | 1 | 7% |
| The Uc Davis Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Natomas Charter School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $200 | 2 | 0% |
| American Institute for Cancer Research | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| University of California San Francisco | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| American Lung Association | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $50 | 1 | 0% |
| March of Dimes Inc | $20 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($908k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Choong & Hsia 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.
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How this is measured
About Choong & Hsia Foundation
- How much does Choong & Hsia Foundation give?
- Choong & Hsia Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $156,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Choong & Hsia Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (98%), Science & Tech (1%), Public Benefit (1%).
- Who are Choong & Hsia Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oregon State University Foundation ($6k), University of California Berkeley Foundation ($5k), 80-20 Educational Foundation Inc ($4k).
- Does Choong & Hsia Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Choong & Hsia 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 Choong & Hsia Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Choong & Hsia Foundation based?
- Choong & Hsia Foundation is based in CA.
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