· 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.
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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 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.
How this is measured
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 |
| INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF TUCSON | $10,000 |
| PEDDIE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ONEIDA-HERKIMER-MADISON BOCES | $10,000 |
| BROOKLYN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
| GREENWICH HIGH SCHOOL (TOWN OF GREENWICH) | $10,000 |
| KOLTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HISD GF1 GENERAL FUND | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its 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.
Stated purpose: SUPPORT-PT V
Stated purpose: SUPPORT-PT V
Stated purpose: SUPPORT-PT V
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 12% of The Asia Society’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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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How this is measured
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Asia Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Asia Society. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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