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UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA
UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,655,792 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,495,570). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 131 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 131 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Deloitte Foundationshared funders
- Tanaka Memorial Foundation Incportfolio match
- Us- Japan Councilportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 12% · 2018 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $130k → $286k.
16 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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: $7.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Harvard-Yenching Institute). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA’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
UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 60% · 2019 63% · 2020 49% · 2021 51% · 2022 56% · 2023 43% — 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
38% of UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
99% of UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA'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 $70k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 24 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Deloitte Foundationshared fundersCT · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Tanaka Memorial Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Us- Japan Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keehi Memorial Organizationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bryn Mawr Collegeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Institute of International Education Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Freeman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heinemannmark & Judy Foundation-Importfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Association of Colleges and Universitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mashhoon Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Harvard-Yenching Institute · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA?
- UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,655,792 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,495,570). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $11,655,792 in grants to UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $9,495,570 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 24funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing