Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Laogai Research Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $37k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 11
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Laogai Research Foundation 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.
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 | 2 | $37k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $28k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $33k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $19k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $53k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $76k | 73% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $96k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Independent Chinese Pen Center | $85,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Minnesota Chinese Democracy Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Citizen Power Initiatives for China Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($253k), not named here.
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About Laogai Research Foundation
- How much does Laogai Research Foundation give?
- Laogai Research Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $37,062 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Laogai Research Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (44%), Arts & Culture (31%), International (15%).
- Who are Laogai Research Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Independent Chinese Pen Center ($85k), Minnesota Chinese Democracy Foundation ($2k), Citizen Power Initiatives for China Inc ($2k).
- Does Laogai Research Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Laogai Research Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Laogai Research Foundation based?
- Laogai Research Foundation is based in DC.
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