The Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation concentrates its giving into a small number of relatively large grants that prioritize strengthening pediatric and maternal health services in Asia and supporting select U.S. higher‑education capital projects. Their international grants focus on practical hospital support and clinical capacity building—training clinicians, funding pharmacy services, and unrestricted support for a provincial maternity and child‑care hospital—while at least one major domestic gift targets an engineering student center at UC Berkeley.
Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation directs large grants toward pediatric and maternal health systems in Asia, alongside selected U.S. higher-education capital support. A defining thread is its recurring backing for hospital capacity work: it has funded general support for Gansu Provincial Maternity and Child-care Hospital in Lanzhou Shi, pharmacy operations at Lao Friends Hospital for Children, and training for pediatric clinicians through Children’s Heartlink. The foundation also appears in multi-year support for Angkor Hospital for Children, including specialty training and workforce development for pediatric care. Its domestic giving includes a major 2025 grant to University of California Berkeley Foundation for the U.C. Berkeley Engineering Student Center Expansion and Renovation Fund, showing that the foundation’s portfolio is not limited to health care. Other recent grants point to a preference for practical service delivery support, such as unrestricted funding, training programs, and operational support for hospital departments. The pattern is one of concentrated, higher-dollar awards rather than a wide spread of small gifts, with repeated support for several organizations across multiple years. Recent recipients range from health-focused nonprofits to universities and community organizations.
Pediatric health is the clearest theme in the foundation’s grantmaking. In 2025, it gave $150,000 to Friends Without a Border for funding the entire pharmacy department at Lao Friends Hospital for Children, and in 2024 it awarded $189,000 to Children’s Heartlink to advance pediatric cardiac care in Hanoi, Vietnam through clinician training and extended reality technology exploration. Workforce development is another recurring thread. The foundation granted $130,000 in 2023 and $112,000 in both 2024 and 2025 to Angkor Hospital for Children for specialty training and for training the next generation of Cambodia’s healthcare workforce in high-quality pediatric care. It also supports child protection and family well-being in Asia. Love Justice International received $80,000 in 2025 for five anti-trafficking transit monitoring stations in Nepal, while Himalayan Healthcare Inc. received $60,000 in both 2024 and 2025 for women’s health and child nutrition in Nepal’s most marginalized communities.
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$1.1M
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$1.6M
Most grants fall between $40K and $106K, with a median of $62K.
25th Percentile
$40K
Median
$62K
75th Percentile
$106K
About 0% of grants go to recipients in CA.
Top 4 recipient countries by grant volume for Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 60 | $4.9M | 84.5% |
| 2 | France |
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Concentrated giving with a small portfolio of large grants; mix of international health systems grants and targeted domestic capital support; evidence of repeat funding to the same institutional partners.
Notable grantees: University of California Berkeley Foundation, Gansu Provincial Maternity and Child‑Care Hospital, Children's HeartLink, Friends Without A Border
Typical grants cluster around the mid-five-figure to low-six-figure range, with p25 at $40,000, a median of $62,000, and p75 at $106,000. The foundation also makes occasional much larger awards, including one near $500,000. Giving is repeated to several recipients across multiple years, especially in health and child-welfare work, which suggests ongoing relationships rather than one-time gifts. It is a family foundation, funds individuals, and does not make program-related investments.
The foundation gives nationally, with most grants landing in California recipients. Recent grantees are also located in New York, Minnesota, Nebraska, Utah, Vermont, and elsewhere in the United States, while international recipients appear in China, France, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland-based or Europe-based organizations. On the recipient side, Los Altos, San Francisco, Berkeley, and Stanford all appear in California, and Lanzhou Shi appears in China. No grants in the recent list went to Delaware recipients.
Its typical grant size is centered in the mid-five-figure range: p25 is $40,000, median grant size is $62,000, and p75 is $106,000. The recent list also includes larger awards, such as a $498,562 grant in 2025.
The clearest patterns are pediatric and maternal health, hospital capacity building, healthcare workforce training, and selected education capital support. Recent grants include support for pediatric cardiac care, pharmacy services in a children’s hospital, maternity and child-care hospital operations, and a university engineering student center project.
Yes. The recipient country distribution includes France, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland in addition to the United States and China-linked recipients. Recent international grants include support in Lanzhou Shi, Hanoi, Nepal, and Thailand-related trafficking prevention work.
Yes. Several organizations appear in multiple years. Children’s Heartlink, Friends Without a Border, Transparent Fish Fund Inc, Angkor Hospital for Children Inc, Love Justice International, Himalayan Healthcare Inc, and 1001 Fontaines Pour Demain all received more than one grant in the recent list.
Yes. The foundation is marked as funding individuals, alongside its organizational grantmaking.
2026
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2026.
| 4 |
| $270K |
5.6% |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 4 | $206K | 5.6% |
| 4 | China | 3 | $632K | 4.2% |
Recipient country reflects the grantee's headquarters per IRS 990-PF and Schedule F filings, not the program's implementation country.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION | BERKELEY, CA | $400,000 | 2026 | U.C. Berkeley Engineering Student Center Expansion and Renovation Fund |
| GANSU PROVINCIAL MATERNITY AND CHILD-CARE HOSPITAL | LANZHOU SHI, GA | $250,000 | 2026 | General & Unrestricted |
| FRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER | NEW YORK, NY | $160,000 | 2026 | Funds for Pharmacy at Lao Friends Hospital for Children |
| TRANSPARENT FISH FUND INC | LOS ALTOS, CA | $120,000 | 2026 | General & Unrestricted |
| ANGKOR HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN INC | PUTNEY, VT | $107,000 | 2026 | Bridging the gaps in pediatric care for children in Cambodia |
| LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL | LINCOLN, NE | $72,000 | 2026 | Transit Monitoring in Nepal |
| BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION | MILLCREEK, UT | $68,960 | 2026 | Funds to Support Burma Backpack Medic team, the Training and Medicine |
| HIMALAYAN HEALTHCARE INC | BUFFALO, NY | $61,550 | 2026 | Women's Health and Child Nutrition Project in Nepal's most marginalized communities |
| CHILDREN ON THE EDGE | CHICHESTER, WE | $53,032 | 2026 | General & Unrestricted |
| KIDSPIRE | LAKE OSWEGO, OR | $52,000 | 2026 | Kidspire's Focus 360 program |
| CHILDRENS HEARTLINK | EDINA, MN | $40,000 | 2026 | Advancing Pediatric Cardiac Care in NCH in Vietnam |
| THE FREEDOM STORY | SAN FRANCISCO, CA | $40,000 | 2026 | Scholarship Fund in Chiang Rai |
| 1001 FONTAINES POUR DEMAIN | PARIS | $40,000 | 2026 | General & Unrestricted |
| HOPE HORIZON EAST PALO ALTO | E PALO ALTO, CA | $32,000 | 2026 | Camp Hope Horizon |
| RENEWAL CHURCH | SUNNYVALE, CA | $25,000 | 2026 | General & Unrestricted |
| JENNY LIN FOUNDATION | CASTRO VALLEY, CA | $4,500 | 2026 | General & Unrestricted |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION | BERKELEY, CA | $498,562 | 2025 | U.C.Berkeley Engineering Student Center Expansion and Renovation Fund (SEE ATTACHED GENERAL EXLANATION) |
| GANSU PROVINCIAL MATERNITY AND CHILD-CARE HOSPITAL | LANZHOU SHI, GA | $200,000 | 2025 | General & Unrestricted |
| FRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER | NEW YORK, NY | $150,000 | 2025 | Funding for the entire pharmacy department at Lao Friends Hospital for Children |
| CHILDRENS HEARTLINK | EDINA, MN | $144,000 | 2025 | Advancing Pediatric Cardiac Care in Hanoi Vietnam by providing training to ~400 clinicians in hands-on skill development and knowledge development |
| TRANSPARENT FISH FUND INC | LOS ALTOS, CA | $120,000 | 2025 | General & Unrestricted |
| ANGKOR HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN INC | PUTNEY, VT | $112,000 | 2025 | Training the next generation of Cambodia's healthcare workforce in high quality pediatric care |
| THE FREEDOM STORY | SAN FRANCISCO, CA | $80,000 | 2025 | Scaling holistic child trafficking prevention programming throughout at- risk communities in Chiang Rai, Thailand |
| LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL | LINCOLN, NE | $80,000 | 2025 | Support the operation of five anti-trafficking transit monitoring stations in Nepal: Birgunj, Hetauda,Bhadrapur/Jogbani,Biratnagar, and Chandrauta |
| 1001 FONTAINES POUR DEMAIN | PARIS | $70,000 | 2025 | General & Unrestricted |
| BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION | SALT LAKE CITY, UT | $66,000 | 2025 | Support backpack medic teams operating in conflict regions in northern, western and eastern Myanmar and the training of new backpack medics |
| CHILDREN ON THE EDGE | CHICHESTER, WE | $62,000 | 2025 | General & Unrestricted |
| HIMALAYAN HEALTHCARE INC | NEW YORK, NY | $60,000 | 2025 | Women's Health and Child Nutrition Project in Nepal's most marginalized communities |
| KIDSPIRE | PORTLAND, OR | $54,000 | 2025 | Support Focus 360 program in three orphanages in Vietnam |
| HOPE HORIZON EAST PALO ALTO | E PALO ALTO, CA | $30,000 | 2025 | Middle School Christian Spiritual Program for East Palo Also and East Menlo Park in California |
| GO LIVE SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC | MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA | $5,000 | 2025 | General & Unrestricted |
| JENNY LIN FOUNDATION | CASTRO VALLEY, CA | $4,000 | 2025 | General & Unrestricted |
| CHILDRENS HEARTLINK | EDINA, MN | $189,000 | 2024 | Advancing Pediatric Cardiac Care in Hanoi Vietnam by providing training to 400 clinicians in hands-on skill development and knowledge development, and Investigation of the Extended Reality (XR) technologies |
| FRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER | NEW YORK, NY | $170,000 | 2024 | Funding for the entire pharmacy department at Lao Friends hospital for Children |
| TRANSPARENT FISH FUND INC | LOS ALTOS, CA | $150,000 | 2024 | General & Unrestricted |
| ANGKOR HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN INC | PUTNEY, VT | $112,000 | 2024 | Training the next generation of Cambodia's healthcare workforce in high quality pediatric care |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | STANFORD, CA | $100,000 | 2024 | Asian Liver Center at Stanford |
| LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL | LINCOLN, NE | $90,000 | 2024 | support the operation of five anti-trafficking transit monitoring stations in Nepal |
| SAN FRANCISCO CITY IMPACT | SAN FRANCISCO, CA | $80,000 | 2024 | Funding to educate and feed children in the Tenderloin district in San Francisco |
| CHINESE CANCER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | CAMPBELL, CA | $80,000 | 2024 | General & Unrestricted |
| 1001 FONTAINES POUR DEMAIN | PARIS | $80,000 | 2024 | General & Unrestricted |
| HIMALAYAN HEALTHCARE INC | NEW YORK, NY | $60,000 | 2024 | Women's Health and Child Nutrition Project in Nepal's most marginalized communities |
| BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION | SALT LAKE CITY, UT | $57,196 | 2024 | Support backpack medic teams operating in conflict regions in northern, western, and eastern Myanmar, and the training of new backpack medics |
| CHILDREN ON THE EDGE | CHICHESTER, WE | $51,329 | 2024 | General & Unrestricted |
| KIDSPIRE | PORTLAND, OR | $50,000 | 2024 | Providing extracurricular S.T.E.M. programs to orphanage children in Vietnam |
| ONE HEART HEALTH | SHOREVIEW, MN | $40,000 | 2024 | Funding for the development of technology for effective remote screening of Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) in undeserved regions/countries |
| HOPE HORIZON EAST PALO ALTO | E PALO ALTO, CA | $30,000 | 2024 | Middle School Christian Spiritual Program for East Palo Also and East Menlo Park in California |
| NEW HOPE CHINESE CANCER CARE FOUNDATION | MILPITAS, CA | $20,000 | 2024 | General & Unrestricted |
| THE FREEDOM STORY | SAN FRANCISCO, CA | $15,000 | 2024 | Scaling holistic child trafficking prevention program throughout at-risk communities in Chiang Rai, Thailand |
| PROFESSIONAL & EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INTERNATIONAL | MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA | $10,000 | 2024 | General & Unrestricted |
U.C. Berkeley Engineering Student Center Expansion and Renovation Fund
GANSU PROVINCIAL MATERNITY AND CHILD-CARE HOSPITAL
$250,000General & Unrestricted
Funds for Pharmacy at Lao Friends Hospital for Children
TRANSPARENT FISH FUND INC
$120,000General & Unrestricted
ANGKOR HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN INC
$107,000Bridging the gaps in pediatric care for children in Cambodia
Transit Monitoring in Nepal
BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION
$68,960Funds to Support Burma Backpack Medic team, the Training and Medicine
HIMALAYAN HEALTHCARE INC
$61,550Women's Health and Child Nutrition Project in Nepal's most marginalized communities
CHILDREN ON THE EDGE
$53,032General & Unrestricted
KIDSPIRE
$52,000Kidspire's Focus 360 program
1001 FONTAINES POUR DEMAIN
$40,000General & Unrestricted
RENEWAL CHURCH
$25,000General & Unrestricted
JENNY LIN FOUNDATION
$4,500General & Unrestricted
U.C.Berkeley Engineering Student Center Expansion and Renovation Fund (SEE ATTACHED GENERAL EXLANATION)
GANSU PROVINCIAL MATERNITY AND CHILD-CARE HOSPITAL
$200,000General & Unrestricted
Funding for the entire pharmacy department at Lao Friends Hospital for Children
Advancing Pediatric Cardiac Care in Hanoi Vietnam by providing training to ~400 clinicians in hands-on skill development and knowledge development
TRANSPARENT FISH FUND INC
$120,000General & Unrestricted
ANGKOR HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN INC
$112,000Training the next generation of Cambodia's healthcare workforce in high quality pediatric care
Scaling holistic child trafficking prevention programming throughout at- risk communities in Chiang Rai, Thailand
Support the operation of five anti-trafficking transit monitoring stations in Nepal: Birgunj, Hetauda,Bhadrapur/Jogbani,Biratnagar, and Chandrauta
1001 FONTAINES POUR DEMAIN
$70,000General & Unrestricted
BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION
$66,000Support backpack medic teams operating in conflict regions in northern, western and eastern Myanmar and the training of new backpack medics
CHILDREN ON THE EDGE
$62,000General & Unrestricted
HIMALAYAN HEALTHCARE INC
$60,000Women's Health and Child Nutrition Project in Nepal's most marginalized communities
KIDSPIRE
$54,000Support Focus 360 program in three orphanages in Vietnam
Middle School Christian Spiritual Program for East Palo Also and East Menlo Park in California
GO LIVE SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC
$5,000General & Unrestricted
JENNY LIN FOUNDATION
$4,000General & Unrestricted
Advancing Pediatric Cardiac Care in Hanoi Vietnam by providing training to 400 clinicians in hands-on skill development and knowledge development, and Investigation of the Extended Reality (XR) technologies
Funding for the entire pharmacy department at Lao Friends hospital for Children
TRANSPARENT FISH FUND INC
$150,000General & Unrestricted
ANGKOR HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN INC
$112,000Training the next generation of Cambodia's healthcare workforce in high quality pediatric care
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
$100,000Asian Liver Center at Stanford
support the operation of five anti-trafficking transit monitoring stations in Nepal
Funding to educate and feed children in the Tenderloin district in San Francisco
CHINESE CANCER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
$80,000General & Unrestricted
1001 FONTAINES POUR DEMAIN
$80,000General & Unrestricted
HIMALAYAN HEALTHCARE INC
$60,000Women's Health and Child Nutrition Project in Nepal's most marginalized communities
BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION
$57,196Support backpack medic teams operating in conflict regions in northern, western, and eastern Myanmar, and the training of new backpack medics
CHILDREN ON THE EDGE
$51,329General & Unrestricted
KIDSPIRE
$50,000Providing extracurricular S.T.E.M. programs to orphanage children in Vietnam
ONE HEART HEALTH
$40,000Funding for the development of technology for effective remote screening of Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) in undeserved regions/countries
Middle School Christian Spiritual Program for East Palo Also and East Menlo Park in California
NEW HOPE CHINESE CANCER CARE FOUNDATION
$20,000General & Unrestricted
Scaling holistic child trafficking prevention program throughout at-risk communities in Chiang Rai, Thailand
PROFESSIONAL & EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INTERNATIONAL
$10,000General & Unrestricted