The Tang Fund

• The Tang Fund is a New York-based foundation with no stated geographic focus, though its grants have mainly gone to New York.
• It funds a broad range of organisations including cultural institutions, schools and universities, museums, food-access groups, environmental organisations, animal-welfare groups and libraries, with grant purposes recorded simply as charitable; it also carries out direct work on diversity and racism awareness.
• Annual giving has risen sharply to $17,935,511, but most grants are modest: about 8 in 10 of its 238 grants fall between $500 and $200,000, the median is $5,000, and half of all grants were $5,000 or less, so a request in that range is realistic even though one grant reached $10,000,000.
• The fund is highly relationship-led: 98% of its grant dollars went to organisations it had already funded in the prior two years, and it operates by invitation only, so unsolicited applications should not be sent.

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

• Metropolitan Museum of Art · Charitable
  $10,000,0002025 tax year
• New-York Historical Society · Charitable
  $2,255,6802025 tax year
• New York Philharmonic · Charitable
  $2,029,9982025 tax year
• Masters School · Charitable
  $630,0002025 tax year
• Skidmore College · Charitable
  $520,0002025 tax year
• Committee of 100 · Charitable
  $403,5002025 tax year
• Deerfield Academy · Charitable
  $400,0002025 tax year
• Yale University · Charitable
  $320,0002025 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.