Massachusetts · Public charity
Harvard-Yenching Institute
The institute is an independent foundation dedicated to advancing higher education in asia in the humanities and social sciences, with special attention to the study of asian culture.
- $6.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
71% of Harvard-Yenching Institute’s FY2025 grant dollars went to President And Fellows Of Harvard College, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,216,082
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,216,082
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 2
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $403M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Harvard-Yenching Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $913k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $835k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $848k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $730k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $775k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $850k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $820k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $800k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia | $7,398,000 | 9 | 13% |
| Association for Asian Studies Inc | $17,526 | 1 | 0% |
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About Harvard-Yenching Institute
- How much does Harvard-Yenching Institute give?
- Harvard-Yenching Institute reported 2 itemized grants totaling $3,129,082, out of $6,936,931 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Harvard-Yenching Institute fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (96%), International (4%), Social Science (0%).
- Who are Harvard-Yenching Institute's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia ($7.4M), Association for Asian Studies Inc ($18k).
- Does Harvard-Yenching Institute fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Harvard-Yenching Institute based?
- Harvard-Yenching Institute is based in MA.
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