CMB Foundation

• CMB Foundation's priority is China and Southeast Asia, supporting health professional education (including graduate medical education in China), health policy and systems, global health, leadership development and health equity, including a flagship fellowship in Southeast Asia.
• A realistic request would fall within its typical range of $25,500 to $245,000, with the median grant at $80,000; around eight in ten of its grants to organisations sit in this range, though half were $80,000 or less.
• It operates by invitation only and does not accept unsolicited requests, so a cold approach is unlikely to work; the realistic route is to be known to or identified by the foundation rather than to apply directly.
• Giving appears relationship-led in practice, as 73% of its grant dollars to organisations went to groups it had also funded before, so new applicants should see this as a slow, relationship-based funder rather than a quick prospect.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Grant awarded to support the second phase of the sino-american joint training program in academic pediatrics
  $501,7752024 tax year
• Peking Union Medical Foundation · Grant for the implementation of the 20212026 memorandum of understanding between cmb and peking union medical college hospital (pumch)
  $500,0002024 tax year
• International Health Policy Foundation · Extend support for the prince mahidol award conference 20252028
  $350,0002024 tax year
• Yale University · Grant to support yale university to implement the cmb postdoctoral research fellowship program
  $340,0002024 tax year
• Harvard TH Chan School Of Public Health · Four-year partnership between cmb and the president and fellows of harvard college through the harvard t.h. chan school of public healths takemi program in international health (takemi program)
  $300,0002024 tax year
• Mahidol University · Cmb postgraduate scholarship program for data science and clinical and health informatics in the mekong region
  $300,0002024 tax year
• University Of Health Sciences · Developing a 5-year strategic plan for the global health research center at the university of health sciences in cambodia (uhs-ghrc)
  $242,5002024 tax year
• Yale University · Collaborative project to build capacity in health economics and financing at cambodia national institute of public health
  $175,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.