New York · Nonprofit
UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA
UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,710,792 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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $180M
What United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia does
Mission
To support colleges & universities in asia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The united board accepts contributions supporting work with colleges and universities in its network in asia. In compliance with irs regulations, such contributions are accepted only for projects consistent with its mission and that have been reviewed and approved by its board of trustees. All contributions, including those designated by donors or specific institutions or purposes, remain subject to the discretion and control of the united board's board of trustees. Approved projects may include student scholarships; library support; faculty development, including faculty scholarships and training; support for faculty salaries and benefits (such as merit prizes and professorial chairs); support for a particular academic department; programs to enhance christian presence on campus; and other initiatives consistent with the united board's mission and policies. The united board remits funds to institutions as designated grants for the purpose indicated by the donors, consistent with board approval and oversight. The united board monitors the appropriate use of all grants, including designated grants, by requiring narrative and financial reports from recipient institutions. In fiscal…
$8,680,187 spentof which $8,680,187 as grants69% of program spendingThe united board supports institutions in its network through competitive and strategic project grants aligned with its mission. Current grant initiatives focus on leadership development in higher education; faculty development to enhance teaching, learning, and research; campus-community partnerships; culture and religion in asia; and other special initiatives responsive to emerging needs. Through these grants, the united board strengthens institutional capacity, promotes whole person education, and links teaching and learning with action research and reflection. These efforts foster the development of ethical leadership, professional competence, and service to society.in fiscal year 2025, the united board approved and disbursed 18 project grants to 17 institutions, totaling $510,032.
$510,032 spentof which $510,032 as grants4% of program spendingThe united board accepts endowment gifts to provide unrestricted support for its work and also accepts contributions for the term and permanent endowments set up for a specific purpose consistent with the mission and policies of the united board. Disbursements from endowments are made annually in accordance with the united board's investment and spending policy and the terms approved by the board of trustees governing each endowment. In fiscal year 2025, the united board disbursed endowment grants totaling $ 1,077,069.
$1,077,069 spentof which $1,077,069 as grants9% of program spendingThe united board also supports work with institutions in its network in asia through grant programs and directly administered faculty and leadership development initiatives. These initiatives provide structured training, institutional placements, and professional formation for participants across the region.these include:united board fellows program. The united board fellows program provides emerging leaders at institutions in its network with exposure to best practices in university administration and leadership. This is achieved through participation in an intensive, three-week summer institute on university leadership, a one- to four-month placement at a college or university in asia, and other activities throughout the program year. Fellows learn new approaches to teaching, learning, and management, which they can share with colleagues from their home institutions. They develop professional relationships and enduring networks and gain greater confidence, decision-making abilities, and a willingness to embrace new challenges. Since 2002, over 250 mid-level faculty and administrators from asian colleges and universities have completed the united board fellows program and…
$2,350,287 spentof which $457,640 as grants19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,617,575.
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 2020 to 2021, from $135M to $171M (+27%).
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
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.
Board chair
Su Yon Pak
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $130k → $286k.
17 of 25 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 92%; 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; 60% 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 $75k 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 13 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
UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 174 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIA
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 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
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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 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,710,792 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 25 organizations giving $11,710,792 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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