The Asia Society
New York, NY · EIN 13-3234632. Reported 81 grants totalling $1,839,452 to 71 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Asia Society, the IRS classifies it under international affairs rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Q200) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 71 distinct organizations, with 35% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 25% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $9,992 and $10,000; the smallest was $5,200 and the largest $438,800. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $638,800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $275,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Years Project Inc | Melville, NY | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Japanese Are Society of America Inc | Lexington, MA | $67,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Int'l High School at Sharpstown (sharpstown Int'l High School-Houston Isd | Houston, TX | $37,018 | 3 | 1 | 2020 |
| Global Village Charter Collaborative | Thornton, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Union County Public Schools | Monroe, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Oconomowoc Area School District | Oconomowoc, WI | $24,996 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pvcics (pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School) | Hadley, MA | $24,990 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Philadelphia High School for Girls-School District of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Tyee Middle School (bellevue School District) | Bellevue, WA | $19,057 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Beacon Hill Int'l School Seattle School District 1 | Seattle, WA | $17,283 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fayette County Public Schools (jack Hayes Darryl Thompson) | Lexington, KY | $15,750 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lake Forest High School District 115 | Lake Forest, IL | $13,544 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Suffern Central School District | Hillburn, NY | $10,900 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Booker T Washington Hs | Tulsa, OK | $10,030 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Alexander Dawson School | Las Vegas, NV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ambassador School of Global Education | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Arlington Memorial Hs (amhs) (battenkill Valley Supervisory U | Arlington, VT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Brooklyn City School District | Brooklyn, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Catalina Foothills United School District #16 | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Center for Global Studies (cgs-Bmhs) | Norwalk, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Chagrin Falls Board of Education | Chagrin Falls, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Dalton Schools Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| East-West School of Int'l Studies | Flushing, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Edward Bleeker Jhs 185 Q (nyc Doe) | Flushing, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Englewood Public Schools (donald Quarles Early Childhood) | Englewood, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Forest Hills Public Schools | Grand Rapids, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fund for Public Schools Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| George Mason High School | Falls Church, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Glastonbury Public Schools | Glastonbury, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Greenwich High School (town of Greenwich) | Greenwich, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hackley School | Tarrytown, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Herricks Public Schools | New Hyde Park, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Jericho Public Schools (jericho Union Free Schools) | Jericho, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Little Red School House Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Massapequa School District (massapequa Ufsd) | Massapequa, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Monongalia County Schools (behalf of North Elementary School) | Morgantown, WV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nichols School of Buffalo | Buffalo, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| North East Isd (north East School of the Arts) | San Antonio, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Oneida-Herkimer-Madison Boces | Utica, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Peddie School | Hightstown, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Princeton Publicregional Schools | Princeton, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Redding School of the Arts | Redding, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Renaissance Academy | Lehi, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Salt Lake Education Foundation | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Semillas Sociedad Civil | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sunset Ridge School | East Hartford, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Outlaw Ocean LLC | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Wardlaw Hartridge School | Edison, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Tucson International School Inc | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University School of Milwaukee Corporation | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| West Hartford Public Schools | Berlin, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| West Orange Public Schools | West Orange, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ysleta Independent School District | El Paso, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Piscataway High School | Short Hills, NJ | $9,997 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Washington International School | Washington, DC | $9,992 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bergenfield Board of Education | Bergenfield, NJ | $9,990 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| School Board of Pinellas County-Safety Harbor Middle School | Largo, FL | $9,983 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pingry Corporation | Basking Ridge, NJ | $9,952 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Simsbury Public Schools | Simsbury, CT | $9,931 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Syracuse Junior High School | Syracuse, UT | $9,815 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Andover Public Schools (wood Hill Middle School) | Andover, MA | $9,799 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Newtown High School (newtown Public Schools) | Newtown, CT | $9,342 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Anderson High School | Austin, TX | $8,700 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lawrence High School (lawrence Township Ps) | Lawrenceville, NJ | $7,290 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Collegiate School | Richmond, VA | $7,285 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Peninsula School District | Gig Harbor, WA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Creative Minds International Public Charter School | Washington, DC | $5,904 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Half Hollow Hills Central School District | Dix Hills, NY | $5,404 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Gahanna-Jefferson School District | Gahanna, OH | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
2 of 71 (3%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
HOOVER FELLOWS SUBGRANT PAYMENT - Regents of the University of California UC
TASK FORCE ON US-CHINA POLICY - The Years Project Inc
GREENLAND CLIMATE PROJECT - Japanese Art Society of America (ukiyo-E Society of Americainc)
MEIJI MODERN - CARPENTER FOUNDATION FUNDS FOR CATALOGUE - University of California Regents(uc Regents)
TASK FORCE ON US-CHINA POLICY SUBGRANT - Global Village Academy-Global Village Charter Collaborative
CHINESE LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 71 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 70 | $859,608 | $10,000 |
| 2021 | 5 | $323,544 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 3 | $182,500 | $67,500 |
| 2023 | 3 | $473,800 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
51% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Asia Society's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 2 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10021.
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