Funding search · EIN 800005459 · Princeton, NJ
James P Geiss and
A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.
- 52
- grants reported
- $751,825
- total given
- 2022–2024
- filing years
- $10,000
- median grant
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- The University of British Columbia3 grants · $89,284
- University of Washington Press6 grants · $71,550
- National Humanities Center1 grant · $60,000
- Books Arts Press Inc Dba Rare Book School1 grant · $57,000
- Society for Ming Studies Inc Harvard University3 grants · $38,000
- Society for Ming Studies3 grants · $37,000
- Arizona State University for a New American University2 grants · $34,120
- Columbia University Press4 grants · $32,000
- Michigan State University1 grant · $28,404
- Princeton University Library1 grant · $27,000
Giving over time
Grant history
All 52 reported grants, largest first.
- $72,944
The University of British Columbia · 2024
Geiss-hsu postdoctoral fellowship in ming studies (post-doc / pi: bruce rusk)
- $60,000
National Humanities Center · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2023
Geiss hsu fellow (xiolin duan).
- $57,000
Books Arts Press Inc Dba Rare Book School · Charlottesville, VA · 2023
Books in ming china, a rare book school course at princeton.
- $28,404
Michigan State University · East Lansing, MI · 2022
Workshop, "nonproducing skills: failure, maintenance, recycling, and transport in early modern east asia"
- $27,000
Princeton University Library · Princeton, NJ · 2024
Ghf support for fpul grants (research grants / pi: mireille djenno)
- $22,120
Arizona State University for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2023
Translating the china and east asian world portrayed in choson korean literature.
- $21,600
Granada University · 2023
Organizing a workshop for a co-edited volume on the landscape culture of west lake.
- $20,388
Mount Holyoke College · South Hadley, MA · 2022
A conference on border-crossing in the ming
- $20,000
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Boston, MA · 2024
Exploring literati discourses, 14th- 18th centuries (open-access public platform / pi: peter bol)
- $20,000
Rare Book School University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2024
Rbs-geiss hsu foundation scholarship (scholarships / pi: michael suarez, s.j.)
- $20,000
China Institute in America · New York, NY · 2022
Flower on a river: the art of chinese flower and bird painting, 1368-1911 masterworks from tianjin museum and changzhou museum (exhibition)
- $20,000
Society for Ming Studies Inc Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022
New voices in ming studies: presentations of new research on ming china
- $17,000
Martin J Heijdra Dba Ming Studies · Princeton, NJ · 2024
Journal of the society for ming studies editorship
- $17,000
Society for Ming Studies · Princeton, NJ · 2023
Journal of the society for ming studies editorship.
- $15,504
Association for Asian Studies · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
Project award - geiss hsu annual conference travel grantproject award
- $15,000
University of Washington Press · Seattle, WA · 2024
Wading barefoot through a mountain stream: the travel diaries of xu xiake (1587-1641); james hargett, lead translator and editor; print and open access publication
- $15,000
University of Washington Press · Seattle, WA · 2022
Chinese autobiographical writing: an anthology of personal accounts; patricia buckley ebrey, cong ellen zhang, and ping yao, translators (oa and print)
- $14,805
The University of North Carolina · Charlotte, NC · 2024
China on the move (conference / pi: dan du)
- $14,550
University of Washington Press · Seattle, WA · 2023
More uw press / geiss hsu foundation open access books: three translations.
- $13,592
Academia Sinica · 2022
A conference on border-crossing in the ming
- $12,000
Arizona State University for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2024
Worlding the ming empire in global early modernity (conference, pi: xiaoqiao ling)
- $12,000
Society for Ming Studies · Princeton, NJ · 2023
Global voices in ming studies: a roundtable on new books by international scholars of the ming.
- $11,596
The Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2024
Plant humanities in china (workshop / pi: natasha heller)
- $10,000
Modern Language Association of America · New York, NY · 2023
Geiss-hsu conference travel grant.
- $10,000
University of Washington Press · Seattle, WA · 2023
Three impeachments: guo xiu and the kangxi court by r. Kent guy.
- $10,000
Columbia University Press · New York, NY · 2022
Master medium: li yu's technologies of culture in the early qing by se kile
- $10,000
Cornell University Press · Ithaca, NY · 2022
Bandits in print: the water margin and the transformations of vernacular fiction by scott gregory (oa and print)
- $10,000
Society for Ming Studies Inc Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Promoting the journal of the society for ming studies (stipend for journal editor)
- $9,500
University of Washington Press · Seattle, WA · 2022
Two more uw press / geiss hsu foundation open access books
- $9,000
Columbia University Press · New York, NY · 2022
The matter of inscription in early modern china by thomas kelly
- $8,400
The University of British Columbia · 2022
How is china governed? From ming statecraft to xi's new era (conference)
- $8,000
Martin J Heijdra Dba Ming Studies · Princeton, NJ · 2024
Two book prizes in ming studies
- $8,000
University of California Press Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2024
Forger's creed by j.p. Park
- $8,000
Society for Ming Studies · Princeton, NJ · 2023
Two book prizes in ming studies.
- $8,000
Society for Ming Studies Inc Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Two book prizes in ming studies
- $7,940
The University of British Columbia · 2022
Site - image - object: rethinking place in chinese visual and material culture (conference)
- $7,500
Yale University Press · New Haven, CT · 2024
The woven image: the making of mongol art in the yuan empire by yong cho
- $7,500
University of Washington Press · Seattle, WA · 2023
Games and play in chinese and sinophone culture, edited by li guo, douglas eyman, and hongmei sun.
- $7,000
The University of Hong Kong · 2024
The empress and the dragon throne: women in the imperial family in the first hundred years of china's ming dynasty by ellen soulliere
- $7,000
Columbia University Press · New York, NY · 2022
The precious summary: a history of the mongols from chinggis khan to the qing dynasty by sagang sechen. Translated by johan elverskog.
- $6,365
The University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Recording "ghost village"
- $6,000
Columbia University Press · New York, NY · 2023
More swindles from the ming: scams, sex, and sorcery by zhang yingyu. Translated by christopher rea and bruce rusk.
- $6,000
The University of Tennessee · Knoxville, TN · 2023
Southeast us scholars & friends of late imperial china (seuss-flic)'s wulong / fifth dragon conference.
- $6,000
University of Georgia · Athens, GA · 2022
Zhonghe dragon conference (seuss-flic)
- $5,000
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Performance theory in early modern china
- $5,000
University of California Regents · Santa Barbara, CA · 2023
New approaches to the study of traditional chinese food culture: a workshop.
- $5,000
Harvard Asia Center Publications Program · Cambridge, MA · 2022
The cornucopian stage: performing commerce in early modern china by ariel fox
- $5,000
University of Hawai'L Press · Honolulu, HI · 2022
Remapping the world in east asia: toward a global history of "ricci map." mario cams and elke papelitzky, editors
- $4,117
The University of Warwick · 2024
Project planning meeting for project entitled: 'the workers of the ming world and their sources'
- $4,000
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Mapping the weird manuscript review workshop (manuscript review workshop / pi: rania huntington)
- $4,000
University of Manchester · 2024
Project award - teaching the ming dynasty: humanities in class teachernotes
- $2,000
Chinoperl · Albany, NY · 2024
Music, language, and drama in late imperial china (special anniversary journal issue / pi: jing shen)
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