Texas · Private foundation
Dennis Ming-Hong Chen 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.
- $27k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,800
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $854k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Dennis Ming-Hong Chen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $552 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 | 18 | $27k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $15k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $43k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $21k | 59% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $14k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $23k | 81% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $29k | 86% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $6k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Bodhi Center Inc | $55,900 | 6 | 5% |
| Texas Buddhist Association Inc | $48,980 | 9 | n/a |
| Generation Serve | $12,674 | 4 | 1% |
| Asian American Health Coalition of the Greater Houston Area | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Communities in Schools | $3,875 | 3 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $3,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Sjogren's Foundation Inc | $3,200 | 6 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $2,700 | 5 | 0% |
| Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Buddhist Global Relief a Nj Nonprofit Corporation | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dennis Ming-Hong Chen 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 · Houston Endowment Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Dennis Ming-Hong Chen Foundation
- How much does Dennis Ming-Hong Chen Foundation give?
- Dennis Ming-Hong Chen Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $27,477 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dennis Ming-Hong Chen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (51%), Health (21%), Education (12%).
- Who are Dennis Ming-Hong Chen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Bodhi Center Inc ($56k), Texas Buddhist Association Inc ($49k), Generation Serve ($13k).
- Does Dennis Ming-Hong Chen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dennis Ming-Hong Chen 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 Dennis Ming-Hong Chen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Houston Endowment Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is Dennis Ming-Hong Chen Foundation based?
- Dennis Ming-Hong Chen Foundation is based in TX.
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