California · Private foundation
The Chi-Li Pao Foundation USA
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.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
86% of The Chi-Li Pao Foundation USA’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.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 4
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations The Chi-Li Pao Foundation USA funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $325k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $132k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $119k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $130k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $60k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $86k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $155k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford Health Care | $460,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Harvard Medical Center | $220,000 | 2 | n/a |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($327k), not named here.
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About The Chi-Li Pao Foundation USA
- How much does The Chi-Li Pao Foundation USA give?
- The Chi-Li Pao Foundation USA reported 7 grants totaling $2,340,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Chi-Li Pao Foundation USA fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (75%), Health (25%).
- Who are The Chi-Li Pao Foundation USA's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Stanford Health Care ($460k), Harvard Medical Center ($220k).
- Does The Chi-Li Pao Foundation USA fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Chi-Li Pao Foundation USA 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 The Chi-Li Pao Foundation USA based?
- The Chi-Li Pao Foundation USA is based in CA.
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