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ASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
ASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $553,870 to it, the largest being The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($130,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $554k
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Asia Society Northern California does
Mission
Asia Society Northern California is one of 16 global centers with a purpose of navigating shared futures for asia and the world across policy, arts and culture, education, sustainability, business, and technology. Our mission is to foster insight, encourage engagement, elevate regional voices, inform and educate new audiences, address complex - and where necessary - contentious challenges, engage in creative problem-solving, and help deliver real solutions for the benefit of all. Asia Society Northern California is nonpartisan, nonprofit, and is uniquely positioned on the edge of the pacific and at the entrance to silicon valley. The center provides its members an opportunity to become part of our global network to help shape a prosperous, sustainable, and secure future for us all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public programs - program services - Asia Society Northern California & seattle connect their diverse local communities with a wide network of global leaders and visionaries in the fields of policy, business, arts & culture, education, and technology/innovation. Through large conferences, public events, briefings, panel discussions, cultural programs, and networking events and dinners, Asia Society Northern California & seattle present timely and relevant forums for educating and engaging the public about the critical issues facing the united states, asia, and the world.
$394,119 spent50% of program spendingSignature program future us china conference - for six consecutive years, Asia Society Northern California members, vips, and guests have come together for a full day of live programming for our annual future of u.s. & china conference, part of our seeking truth through facts u.s.-china program series. This conference consists of multiple panels featuring approx. 20 top leading voices across the fields of business, government, technology, academia, and entrepreneurship to discuss, analyze and debate the pressing issues facing the world including generative ai, trade, the economy, geopolitics, and more. This year's conference included an additional post-conference roundtable debrief event in seattle.
$170,417 spent22% of program spendingExecutive roundtables - Asia Society Northern California & seattle host private executive roundtables every month with industry leaders in san francisco, silicon valley, seattle and online. Program topics are around headline news, business analysis, and critical issues coming out of asia. Launched in september 2017, these monthly briefings have grown in popularity to generate wait-lists. Most events are off-the-record to encourage open debate and discussion.
$90,564 spent11% of program spendingSignature half-day india conference - for four years, Asia Society Northern California has hosted a half-day conference on examining u.s.-india relations. Launched in april 2022, this series pays tribute to the legacy of our long-time and beloved advisory board member, naren gupta (1948-2021) and addresses the topics closest to his heart: business, entrepreneurship, and cultivating the next generation of innovative leaders, especially those hailing from india. Our 2025 conference agenda included sessions on india's foreign policy, its progressive space trajectory, future of u.s.-india venture collaboration, and a keynote by justice surya kant, supreme court of india.sam talks: seattle speaker series. This was the inaugural year of the program series that our seattle center developed with the seattle asian art museum designed and dedicated to promoting understanding of asia and the asia diaspora. With three events each year, we host speakers, artists, musicians, and live performers for an audience of 200 people.
$136,053 spent17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $791,153.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $4.9M to $4.2M (−14%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 2% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
110% of ASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Margaret Conley
Exec. Dir. / sec. / treas.
Board chair
Gary Rieschel
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $35k → $105k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $143k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Silicon Valley Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA raised.
From the IRS filings of ASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
70% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 87% · 2022 73% · 2023 47% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
0% of ASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
70% of ASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $167k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $387k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
41% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA?
- ASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $553,870 to it, the largest being The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($130,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $553,870 in grants to ASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA?
- The Chong-Moon Lee Foundation CO Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing