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2025 Grants
2025 Funding Focuses:
- Arts & Culture Focus: The Foundation will provide support for nonprofits that foster Asian art and culture. Examples include Asian cultural festivals, music and dance, Chinese and Japanese gardens, museums highlighting Asian art, and educational programs on Asian or Asian American history. Priority will be given to organizations that are inclusive to the general public and foster a greater understanding and appreciation for Asian art and culture. Grant awards may be for general operating support or for specific programs and will be in the range of $10,000-$15,000. The Foundation will consider both one-year and two-year funding requests. Priority will be given to nonprofits serving communities in Oregon's Willamette Valley and in California's Bay Area. The Foundation awarded two-year grants in 2024, no additional grants were awarded in 2025.
- Environment: The Foundation is committed to supporting work that enhances wildlife connectivity by awarding two-year grants. Our goal is to ensure the health and sustainability of wildlife populations affected by habitat fragmentation due to the disruption of their continuous ecosystems. We aim to foster a resilient and connected ecosystem through these targeted efforts, promoting biodiversity and ecological health. The Foundation awarded two-year grants.
- Education: The Foundation intends to award grants for paid internships at nonprofits for 1) students enrolled in community college, four year college undergraduate and/or college graduate school or 2) "young professionals" defined as a person who graduated from community college, four-year college undergraduate, or college graduate school within the last two years. Grants distributed in calendar year 2025 may be utilized for calendar year 2026 internships as needed. These internships must provide an above minimum wage stipend. The internship experience should include enrichment opportunities which should include skill building, visibility into nonprofit management, peer networking, professional seminars, capstone project/report, etc. Average size grants in this area of focus are $8,000-$12,000 per internship. You are welcome to request funding for more than one internship in an application if you have previously received funding from the Foundation. Please note that grant recipients who received awards from us in this focus area each year for the last 3 consecutive years (2022, 2023, 2024) are not eligible for a grant in 2025.
- Health & Human Services: The Foundation is committed to supporting elders living in our communities by encouraging self-sufficiency and aging in place. We awarded two-year $20,000 grants (payouts of 2024: $10,000; 2025: $10,000) to organizations. We fund both projects and general operating support. Funding is focused on housing specifically around aging in place: Home modifications for accessibility and home maintenance; Assistance with household tasks; Affordable permanent housing; Collaborative partnerships that advocate for age-friendly communities.
Grants Awarded in 2025
A total of $4,050,100 was gifted this year
A total of $4,050,100 was gifted this year
Legacy Gifts
- Lan Su Chinese Garden, Portland, OR. $1,000,000. For their capital campaign to build an education center and additional facilities ($500K in Spring 2026, $500K in Spring 2027).
- The Nature Conservancy in Oregon, Portland, OR. $1,000,000. For the Emerald Edge program.
- Meals on Wheels People, Portland, OR. $1,500,000. For their "Together at the Table" capital campaign.
- Oregon Community Foundation, Portland, OR. $1,000,000. For an Advised Fund to support paid college student internships at nonprofits.
Arts & Culture
- Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. Y2 2025: $10,000. For general operating support.
- Music Workshop, Portland, OR. Y2 2025: $15,000. To expand Music Workshop’s K-8 Music Education Culture Series: Music from the Continent of Asia.
- Portland Chinatown History Foundation, Portland, OR. Y2 2025: $10,000. For general support and Lunar New Year Program.
- Portland Japanese Garden, Portland, OR. Y2 2025: $12,000. For general operating support.
- Takohachi, Inc., Portland, OR. Y2 2025: $15,000. To support capacity building for Takohachi’s staffing and programmatic expansion.
Environment
- Friends of the Columbia Gorge, Portland, OR. Y1 2025: $40,000, Y2 2026: $40,000. For Turtle Haven work.
- North Coast Land Conservancy, Seaside, OR. Y1 2025: $20,000, Y2 2026: $20,000. For general operating support.
- Pacific Forest Trust, San Francisco, CA. Y1 2025: $40,000, Y2 2026: $40,000. For wildlife connectivity projects in the Siskiyou Crest region.
- Peninsula Open Space Trust, Palo Alto, CA. Y1 2025: $40,000, Y2 2026: $40,000. For the planning phase of the Upper Pajaro River Valley wildlife connectivity project.
- Southern Oregon Land Conservancy, Ashland, CA. Y1 2025: $20,000, Y2 2026: $20,000. For outreach and education purposes for the recently purchased Colestin Bear Gulch Preserve.
- The Nature Conservancy in CA, Sacramento, CA. $50,000. A one-year grant for the Point Reyes National Seashore transformative project.
- Western Environmental Law Center, Eugene, OR. Y1 2025: $40,000, Y2 2026: $40,000. For wildlife corridor work.
Education
- AIDS Legal Referral Panel, San Francisco, CA. $12,000. For the law clerk program: The next generation of public interest lawyers.
- BRAVO Youth Orchestras, Portland, OR. $8,100. For the student internship program.
- Greater Farallones Association, San Francisco, CA. $12,000. A kelp restoration program fellowship for college students and early professionals.
- Oikonos - Ecosystem Knowledge, Kailua, HI. $48,000. To support one graduate student and one undergraduate student intern for two years working on the Año Nuevo Island Seabird Program.
- Portland State University Foundation, Portland, OR. $10,000. For an Oregon MESA Data and Coding Specialist intern.
- Point Reyes Bird Observatory dba Point Blue Conservation Science, Petaluma, CA. $36,000. For internships in early career training in conservation science and policy.
- Project Lemonade, Portland, OR. $12,000. For an internship in the L+EARN Program: To improve economic ,obility for foster youth in college.
- Western Environmental Law Center, Eugene, OR. $12,000. To support a legal internship focused on the environment.
Health & Human Services
- Community for Positive Aging, Portland, OR. Y2: $10,000. General operating support.
- Friendly House, Portland, OR. Y2: $10,000. Program support for Elder Pride Services.
- Hood River Valley Adult Center, Hood River, OR. Y2: $10,000. General operating support.
- Legal Assistance to the Elderly, San Francisco, CA. Y2: $10,000. General operating support.
- Meals on Wheels People, Portland, OR. Y2: $10,000. General operating support.
- Sebastopol Area Senior Center, Sebastopol, CA. Y2: $10,000. General operating support.
- Shanti Project, San Francisco, CA. Y2: $10,000. Program support for Pets Are Wonderful Support.
- Store to Door, Portland, OR. Y2: $10,000. General operating support.
Discretionary Grants
- Sebastopol Area Senior Center, Sebastopol, CA. $1,000. Directed by Mariette Sawchuk.
- Friends of the Columbia Gorge, Portland, OR. $1,000. Directed by Susan Kenney.
- Meals on Wheels People, Portland, OR. $1,000. Directed by Pam Hays.
- Self-Help for the Elderly, San Francisco, CA. $1,000. Directed by Honmai Goodman.
- Oregon Latino Health Coalition, Portland, OR. $1,000. Directed by Michele Goodman.
- Curry Senior Center, San Francisco, CA. $2,000. Directed by Sandy Sawchuk and Joe Goodman.
- Oregon Public Broadcast, Portland, OR. $1,000. Directed by Eric Wan.