· Public charity
The Asia Society
The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.
Read this first · the figures below need context
90% of The Asia Society’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, 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. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Asia Society named its own grantees at scale: 65 organizations, $860k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 70 grants below total $859,608 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,661,882 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,802,274 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k20 grants · $170k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $565k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UC | $125,000 |
| UNION COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| GLOBAL VILLAGE ACADEMY-GLOBAL VILLAGE CHARTER COLLABORATIVE | $25,000 |
| OCONOMOWOC AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $24,996 |
| PVCICS (PIONEER VALLEY CHINESE IMMERSION CHARTER SCHOOL) | $24,990 |
| INT'L HIGH SCHOOL AT SHARPSTOWN (SHARPSTOWN INT'L HIGH SCHOOL-HOUSTON ISD | $18,019 |
| FAYETTE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (JACK HAYES DARRYL THOMPSON) | $15,750 |
| SUFFERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,900 |
| BOOKER T WASHINGTON HS | $10,030 |
| HERRICKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| PEDDIE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| GEORGE MASON HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| HACKLEY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| RENAISSANCE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| EDWARD BLEEKER JHS 185 Q (NYC DOE) | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $782k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions, $774k to organizations and $9k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
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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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of The Asia Society’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2021, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GVGLOBAL VILLAGE CHARTER COLLABORATIVE5× · 2017–2021 · $167k · revenue +115%
- WIWASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL5× · 2017–2021 · $91k · revenue +44%
- TPTHE PINGRY CORPORATION5× · 2017–2021 · $61k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- SMSAN MATEO FOSTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2020 · $30k
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +28%
- HCHuntley Community School District 158one grant, 2018 · $13k
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.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The purpose of the school is to promote, advance and sponsor charitable and educational activities.
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
Creative, collaborative, and college preparatory, school one students write with purpose and participate actively. each student is well-known and valued for their emerging strengths. small by design for 50 years, classes average nine…
Chandler's mission is to provide each student with the highest quality and most academically challenging education in a nurturing, balanced and diverse environment. chandler strives to have its students gain a love of learning, a means of…
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…
The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
To provide the opportunity for a superior elementary and middle school education based on exceptionally high curricula and standards.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heritage Hall School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Japanese Art Society of America Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 98 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL VILLAGE CHARTER COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE YEARS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE ART SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PINGRY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds REDDING SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Salt Lake Education Foundation ↗
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: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Round It Up America Inc · Share Our Strength · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · I Car Education Foundation · Society for Science & the Public · Project Lead the Way Inc · Digital Promise Global · The George W Bush Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · Center for Bridging Cultures Inc
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 Society 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, a single department, or state — 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.