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Esherick-Ye Family Foundation

Name: Esherick-Ye Family Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

36
grants reported: $158,377
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $4,750
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

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Grant history

All 36 reported grants, largest first.

$6,000
Jason Chan · Cambridge, MA · 2025
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Permafrost Science and the Trans-polar History of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway 1954-2006
$6,000
Junyi Han · New Haven, CT · 2025
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Collapse of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance in Cold War Yunnan 1964-1993
$6,000
Guangchen Chen · Atlanta, GA · 2023
fieldwork and research
$6,000
Ming-Hsi Chu · Evanston, IL · 2022
field work and research
$5,900
Ting-Chieh Ou Yang · Seattle, WA · 2022
field work and research
$5,812
Zhiqiang Yang · New Haven, CT · 2024
For fieldwork and research on paper: Tibetan Barbarians Chinese Outsiders and Muslim Strangers in Chinas Frontiers 1862-1962
$5,600
Zhaorui Lu · Irvine, CA · 2025
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Gender Grassroots Politics and State Building in the PRC 1949-1990s
$5,500
Chad Westra · Seattle, WA · 2024
Grant for fieldwork and research on paper: Paper Regimes and Modern China: An Ecological History
$5,500
Chang Xu · St Louis, MO · 2022
field work and research
$5,450
Siyun Guo · Chicago, IL · 2024
Grant for fieldwork and research on paper: Dwelling with Environmental Variability in Bronze Age NW China 2135-1530 BC
$5,150
Niall Chithelen · San Diego, CA · 2023
fieldwork and research
$5,000
Yuwei Zhou · Chicago, IL · 2025
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Mortuary and Urban Landscapes of Late Shang 1250-1046 BC Anyang
$5,000
Aidan Lee · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Grant for fieldwork and research on paper: Land Use Ethnic Enclaves and State-Society Relations in Taiwan 1945-1980
$5,000
Xiaoyu Gao · Chicago, IL · 2024
Grant for fieldwork and research on paper: British Global Trade Chilean Copper and the Transformation of the Chinese Monetary System 1800-1862
$5,000
Xiangning Li · Chicago, IL · 2023
fieldwork and research
$5,000
Mian Chen · Evanston, IL · 2022
field work and research
$4,950
Xuexin Cai · New York, NY · 2023
fieldwork and research
$4,800
Sau-Yi Fong · New York, NY · 2023
fieldwork and research
$4,700
Gaoziyan Cui · Santa Barbara, CA · 2025
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: The Superiority of Rights in the Tungsten Industry of China 1907-present
$4,640
Ashley Shults · Riverside, CA · 2025
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Bioarchaeological Study of Daily Life and Identity During the Tang-Song Transition
$4,640
Yiyi Tang · Hanover, NH · 2025
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Rice Consumption in the Late Neolithic Liangzhu Culture in Southern China
$4,500
Benjamin Kletzer · San Diego, CA · 2023
fieldwork and research
$4,350
Peng Hai · Cambridge, MA · 2022
field work and research
$4,095
Anke Wang · Ithaca, NY · 2025
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Nature Sovereignty and Development in the Gulf of Tonkin 1880-1970
$4,000
Jing Cheng · New Haven, CT · 2022
field work and research
$4,000
Xin Su · Cambridge, MA · 2022
field work and research
$3,700
Yaohan Wu · San Diego, CA · 2023
fieldwork and research
$3,200
Carola Franzen · Honolulu, HI · 2023
fieldwork and research
$3,000
Yixue Yang · San Diego, CA · 2023
fieldwork and research
$2,980
Shuhui Zhou · Seattle, WA · 2025
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Environmental Governmentality in the Qing Era Wuling Mountains
$2,820
Ariadin Jones · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Bioarchaeological Study of the Mogou Cemetery
$2,790
Amanda Zhang · 2023
fieldwork and research
$2,500
Helena Chen · Gainesville, FL · 2023
fieldwork and research
$2,400
Shumeng Han · La Jolla, CA · 2025
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Agricultural Innovation and Wheat Variety Changes in Rural Shaanxi 1930-1980
$1,300
Chris-Alexander Hess · 2025
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Household Structure and the Standard of Living in pre-Industrial China 1650-1950
$1,100
Yen-Chun Wang · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Production Organization and Consumer Culture in Sugar Production of Early Modern Taiwan

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