California · Private foundation
Tao-Ding Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $10k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2026
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $50
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $9,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 5
- FY2024 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 9
- Total assets, FY2026
- $175k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 40% of the organizations Tao-Ding Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 10 | $10k | 40% |
| FY2025 | 5 | $5k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $2k | n/a |
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| PALY Interdisciplinary Experience | $1,500 | 1 | 2% |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | $1,050 | 3 | 0% |
| Paralyzed Veterans of America | $125 | 2 | 0% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $25 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $20 | 2 | 0% |
| Boys Town National Alumni Association Sc | $15 | 1 | n/a |
| Salvation Army National Corp | $15 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($14k), not named here.
About Tao-Ding Foundation
- How much does Tao-Ding Foundation give?
- Tao-Ding Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $10,142 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 5 organizations a year over FY2024 to FY2025.
- What does Tao-Ding Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (91%), Civil Rights (4%), Health (3%).
- Who are Tao-Ding Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2024 to FY2026: PALY Interdisciplinary Experience ($2k), University of California Berkeley Foundation ($1k), Paralyzed Veterans of America ($125).
- Does Tao-Ding Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tao-Ding 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.
- Where is Tao-Ding Foundation based?
- Tao-Ding Foundation is based in CA.
Play a game based on Tao-Ding’s filings →
More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home