Texas · Private foundation
Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $29M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 169
- Grants FY2024
- 138
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 82 to 138
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Total assets, FY2024
- $29M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.3M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 141 | $28M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 138 | $26M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 125 | $25M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 126 | $23M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 133 | $24M | 34% |
| FY2019 | 93 | $16M | 22% |
| FY2018 | 107 | $15M | 48% |
| FY2017 | 82 | $17M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellesley College | $19,000,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $15,905,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Asia Society Texas Center | $8,528,000 | 8 | 33% |
| International Buddhist Progress Society | $6,150,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Houston Museum of Natural Science | $6,115,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Foundation for Chinese Cultural Heritage | $5,700,000 | 6 | 92% |
| William Marsh Rice University | $5,285,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $3,900,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Duke University | $3,475,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $3,421,915 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 257 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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
Compare Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation with peer funders
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About Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation
- How much does Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation give?
- Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation reported 169 grants totaling $28,783,770 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 82 and 138 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (26%), Health (25%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wellesley College ($19M), Texas Children's Hospital ($16M), Asia Society Texas Center ($8.5M).
- Does Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation based?
- Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation is based in TX.
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