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12 funders with a record of paying for “asia”
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Foundation for Theological Education in Asia and the PacificWest Barnstable, MA
102 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2024Largest: $69,040 to Association for Theological Education in Southeast Asia — improve theological education in asia and the pacific
Largest: $150,000 to Center for Global Asia New York University — port city environments in global asia: research and pedagogy for redesigning studies of asia
Largest: $3.4M to TIDES FOUNDATION — to support the asia advancement fund to enhance participatory and good governance in south asia
Largest: $744,950 to CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — core support its asia program to develop a research and convening initiative aimed at understanding the sources of china's growing influence in the global south and offering policy…
Largest: $500,000 to WOMEN'S FUND ASIA LIMITED (WFAL) — to support women's fund asias work to resource the implementation of a rights-based approach to inform, bolster, and accelerate feminist movements in asia and to support womens rig…
Largest: $1.7M to TIDES FOUNDATION — to support the asia advancement fund to enhance participatory and good governance in south asia
Largest: $325,000 to Asia-Pacific Leadership Network — for an asia-u.s. peace and security dialogue
Largest: $9.0M to PHILANTHROPY ASIA ALLIANCE LTD — global health and development public awareness and analysis; public awareness and analysis; research and learning opportunities
Largest: $500,000 to INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN — in support of an applied research study to evaluate the carbon and income effects of large-scale women led climate programs in asia and africa.
Largest: $500,000 to Greenpeace East Asia — environment and science
Largest: $100,000 to ASIA SOCIETY — asia society policy institute global transformation
Largest: $215,000 to CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY — for its center for social development studies regional fellowship program for sustainable development in asia
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →