· Private foundation
Ping and Amy Chao Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $177k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $695k
- $250k+2 grants · $650k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| GANSU PROVINCIAL MATERNITY AND CHILD-CARE HOSPITAL | $250,000 |
| FRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER | $160,000 |
| TRANSPARENT FISH FUND INC | $120,000 |
| ANGKOR HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN INC | $107,000 |
| LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL | $72,000 |
| BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION | $68,960 |
| HIMALAYAN HEALTHCARE INC | $61,550 |
| CHILDREN ON THE EDGE | $53,032 |
| KIDSPIRE | $52,000 |
| THE FREEDOM STORY | $40,000 |
| 1001 FONTAINES POUR DEMAIN | $40,000 |
| CHILDRENS HEARTLINK | $40,000 |
| HOPE HORIZON EAST PALO ALTO | $32,000 |
| RENEWAL CHURCH | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 85% of grant dollars ($12M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 15% that went abroad ($2.1M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 15% of all-years giving ($2.1M)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +5%
- TFTRANSPARENT FISH FUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +18% · 56% of their budget
- FWFRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +54%
Funded once
- TNThe NCTU Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $147k · revenue +154% · 32% of their budget
- LILOVE146 INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $95k · revenue +115%
ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +21%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide humanitarian support in China. Help to develop a civil society in China. Promote rule-of-law,human rights, and freedom of expressions.Focus on grass-root and people who are neglected by the outside world
Provide food, clothing, shelter, education, and medical care to underprivileged children in Asia.
By altering the future of vulnerable children in cambodia through life changing programs of christian education and community development, asian hope is creating a generation of compassionate, equipped, christian leaders.
Religious
Child Family Health International is dedicated to transformative Global Health Education programs, research, and thought leadership emphasizing community leadership, global citizenship, and ethical engagement.
Chab dai international is dedicated to addressing human trafficking and labor exploitation in the united states, cambodia and around the globe through coalition-building, capacity-building, advocacy and research.
Serve the medical and emotional needs of marginalized men, women, and especially children in china, providing eternal hope for a brighter future.
At Partners Asia, we build relationships with innovative organizers in these communities and with international donors, bridging the gap between local leaders and global resources.
To help spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ by providing resources and financial support to projects throughout Asia
Thrive Networks' expertise is built on over 30 years of experience of designing, testing, and implementing cutting-edge, evidence-based programs in water supply, sanitation and hygiene WASH, economic empowerment, gender equity, healthy…
The Himalayan Children's Fund is a way for people around the world, and the west in particular, to connect with the lives of people in the Himalayan Region of Nepal, India and Tibet. HCF provides support for Thrangu Rinpoche's many…
To fill in the gaps of health service needs prioritizing conflict affected community provide life saving emergency services and frontline first aid care help strengthen resistance and resilience of the healthcare workers as well as help to…
How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRANSPARENT FISH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK ↗
- Who funds ANGKOR HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds KIDSPIRE ↗
- Who funds BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds San Francisco City Impact ↗
- Who funds WATERING MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds Equalize Health Formerly D-Rev ↗
- Who funds HOPE HORIZON EAST PALO ALTO ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds SAHAYA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ONE HEART HEALTH ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Freedom Story ↗
- Who funds The NCTU Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOLISTIC INTEGRATED SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOVE146 INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CANCER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGAPE FISH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds JENNY LIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH EAST ASIA PRAYER CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE CHINESE CANCER CARE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Transparent Fish Fund Inc · Cherith Christian Private Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · The Yelp Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- LOVE146 Inc: 49% of income from government
How this is measured
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