Huang Chen Foundation

• The foundation's stated themes are nature conservation, climate and climate refugees, so start by checking whether your work sits in one of those areas.
• It does not accept unsolicited requests, so a small charity should not send a cold proposal and should wait for an invitation or find another route.
• Most of its grants are modest: about 8 in 10 fall between $3,000 and $52,000, with a median of $25,000, so a request near the middle of that band matches its usual pattern, though the largest grant was $100,000 and the band is not a ceiling.
• The filing shows that 90% of grant dollars to organisations went to groups it had also funded in earlier filings, so existing relationships appear to carry real weight.
• No geographic focus is stated; the grants mainly went to New York, Virginia, California, Oregon and Minnesota, but that is a pattern in the filing, not a rule about who may apply.

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

• Health In Harmony · Charitable operations expenses
  $60,0002024 tax year
• Wildlife Conservation Society · Marine protected areas program
  $50,0002024 tax year
• Rainforest Trust · 25k malaysia tembeling 25k philippines palawan
  $50,0002024 tax year
• Mongabayorg · Unrestricted general support
  $30,0002024 tax year
• Cambodian Children's Fund · Girls to grannies + socchy, aya's sponsorship
  $26,8002024 tax year
• Nomi Network · Charitable operations expenses
  $25,0002024 tax year
• Sea Shepherd Conservation Society · Research on australian sea lion conservation
  $25,0002024 tax year
• Princeton University · One time 20th year annual fund gift
  $20,0002024 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.