· Public charity
The Asia Foundation
THE ASIA FOUNDATION (taf) is an international nonprofit organization working to solve the toughest social and economic challenges in asia and the pacific.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $1,156,264 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $27,352,334 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,196,070 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- $10k–50k3 grants · $87k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARNEGIE MIDDLE EAST CENTER | $706,721 |
| THE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER | $362,092 |
| IDEAS42 | $37,446 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION INC | $25,005 |
| ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Grants abroad, by region — $23M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $22M to organizations and $1.5M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: BOOKS FOR ASIA · ECONOMIC GROWTH · INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Stated purpose: ECONOMIC GROWTH · INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS · GOVERNANCE
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $412k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +243%- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS2× · 2018–2019 · $98k · revenue +42%
- IFInstitute for Social and Environmental Transition- International2× · 2017–2018 · $74k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- GDGIRL DETERMINEDone grant, 2018 · $22k · revenue -5%
- AUACTIONAID USAone grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue -13%
- BMBISHOP MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +94%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Girl Determined. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS ↗
- Who funds Institute for Social and Environmental Transition- International ↗
- Who funds BEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN ↗
- Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds GIRL DETERMINED ↗
- Who funds Council on Foundations Inc ↗
- Who funds ACTIONAID USA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds BISHOP MUSEUM ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Asia Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.