California · Nonprofit
SHOUCHENG ZHANG FOUNDATION
SHOUCHENG ZHANG FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,000 to it, the largest being GLOBAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND ARTS ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $205k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Shoucheng Zhang Foundation does
Programs
1) Stanford Physics Fellowships with international and interdisciplinary collaborations. In 2025, the Foundation co-hosted the Shoucheng Zhang Conference on Quantum Science and Engineering with Stanford Q-FARM. The event brought together over 50 faculty members, students, and researchers working in the fields of quantum science and engineering.
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3) Collaborating with the AASF (Asian American Scholar Forum) to support and promote the Youth Ambassador for Science Competitiona powerful initiative that celebrates the spirit of curiosity, discovery, and cultural pride.
4) Sponsoring the Stanford AI for Science hackathon. In alignment with its mission to advance scientific education and preserve the legacy of Professor Shoucheng Zhang, the Shoucheng Zhang Foundation successfully completed a major educational initiative: the development, publication, and distribution of the book Another Truth of the Universe.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.9M to $2.9M (+55%).
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
Barbara Zhang
CEO & CFO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SHOUCHENG ZHANG FOUNDATION’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
SHOUCHENG ZHANG FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 SHOUCHENG ZHANG FOUNDATION.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of SHOUCHENG ZHANG FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SHOUCHENG ZHANG FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SHOUCHENG ZHANG FOUNDATION
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In California
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Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHOUCHENG ZHANG FOUNDATION: 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 SHOUCHENG ZHANG FOUNDATION?
- SHOUCHENG ZHANG FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,000 to it, the largest being GLOBAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND ARTS ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHOUCHENG ZHANG FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $205,000 in grants to SHOUCHENG ZHANG FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHOUCHENG ZHANG FOUNDATION?
- GLOBAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND ARTS is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHOUCHENG ZHANG FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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