2024 Grants Awarded
2024 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.
- Environment: The Foundation is focused on creating wildfire resiliency by supporting work to build healthy and biodiverse forests. Examples include: advocacy & policy work, wildfire planning & adaptation, preserving & increasing wildlife biodiversity, and public engagement & outreach through education, communications, and messaging. The Foundation awarded multi-year grants in 2023. No new grants are being considered.
- Education: The Foundation intends to award grants for paid internships at nonprofits for college undergraduate and/or graduate students (grants distributed in calendar year 2024 may be utilized for calendar year 2025 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. Priority will be given to internships that recruit using a DEI lens. 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 (2021, 2022, 2023) are not eligible for a grant in 2024. You will be eligible to reapply 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 will be awarding 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 2024
Arts & Culture
- Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. $20,000. (Y1 2024: $10,000, Y2 2025: $10,000). For general operating support.·
- Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA. $0. For general operating support.
- Music Workshop, Portland, OR. $30,000 (Y1 2024: $15,000; Y2 2025: $15,000). To expand Music Workshop’s K-8 Music Education Culture Series: Music from the Continent of Asia.
- Oakland Children’s Fairyland, Inc., Oakland, CA. $10,000. A one-year grant for 2025 AAPI Heritage Month at Children’s Fairyland support.
- Portland Chinatown History Foundation, Portland, OR. $20,000 (Y1 2024: $10,000; Y2 2025: $10,000). For general support and Lunar New Year Program.
- Portland Japanese Garden, Portland, OR. $24,000 (Y1 2024: $12,000; Y2 2025: $12,000). For general operating support.
- San Jose Taiko, San Jose, CA. $16,500. A one-year grant for general operating support.
- Takohachi, Inc., Portland, OR. $30,000 (Y1 2024: $15,000; Y2 2025: $15,000). To support capacity building for Takohachi’s staffing and programmatic expansion.
Environment
- 1000 Friends of Oregon, Portland, OR. Y2 2024: $20,000. For wildfire resilience education and outreach program.
- Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology (FUSEE), Eugene, OR. Y2 2024: $10,000. For general operating support.
- Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, Ashland, OR. Y2 2024: $20,000. For wildfire work as part of the climate program.
- Pepperwood Preserve Foundation, Sonoma, CA. Y2 2024: $20,000. For general operating support.
- Mid Klamath Watershed Council, Orleans, CA. Y2 2024: $20,000. For general operating support.
Education
- Clackamas Women’s Services, Oregon City, OR. $12,000. For a Masters of Social Work generalist intern for CWS’ counseling program to provide survivor-centered counseling.
- Environmental Action Committee of West Marin, Point Reyes Station, CA. $6,000. For a legal and policy internship.
- Filoli Center, Woodside, CA. $10,000. To support a horticulture internship at the garden.
- Girls Inc. of the Pacific Northwest, Portland, OR. $10,000. For a School and Community Program intern.
- Greater Farallones Association, San Francisco, CA. $12,000. To support a paid Marine Science Education fellowship for an underrepresented student
- Local Ecology & Agriculture Fremont, Fremont, CA. $10,500. For a Community Food Systems internship.
- Portland State University Foundation/Oregon MESA, Portland, OR. $10,000. To support a Research & Data Analyst intern.
- Project Lemonade, Portland, OR. $9,800. To support an L3 foster youth college student intern.
- Western Environmental Law Center, Eugene, OR. $10,000. To support a legal internship for a current law student.
- Women’s Audio Mission, San Francisco, CA. $5,000. To support an intern participating in the Audio Engineering Internship and Job Placement Program.
Health & Human Services
- Community for Positive Aging, Portland, OR. Y1 2024: $10,000, Y2 2025: $10,000. G For general operating support.
- Community Tech Network, San Francisco, CA. $0.
- Friendly House, Portland, OR. Y1 2024: $10,000, Y2 2025: $10,000. Program support for Elder Pride Services.
- Hood River Valley Adult Center, Hood River, OR. Y1 2024: $10,000, Y2 2025: $10,000. GFor general operating support.
- Legal Assistance to the Elderly, San Francisco, CA. Y1 2024: $10,000, Y2 2025: $10,000. GFor general operating support.
- Meals on Wheels People, Portland, OR. Y1 2024: $10,000, Y2 2025: $10,000. GFor general operating support.
- Sebastopol Area Senior Center, Sebastopol, CA. Y1 2024: $10,000, Y2 2025: $10,000. GFor general operating support.
- Sequoia Living, San Francisco, CA. $0.
- Shanti Project, San Francisco, CA. Y1 2024: $10,000, Y2 2025: $10,000. Program support for Pets Are Wonderful Support.
- Store to Door, Portland, OR. Y1 2024: $10,000, Y2 2025: $10,000. GFor general operating support.
John Lam Fund
- Curry Senior Center, San Francisco, CA. $20,000. For general operating support.
Discretionary Gifts
- Friends of Columbia Gorge, Hood River, OR. $1,000. For general operating support directed by Susan Kenney.
- Legal Assistance to the Elderly, San Francisco, CA. $1,000. For general operating support directed by Mariette Sawchuk.
- Project Open Hands, San Francisco, CA. $1,000. For general operating support directed by Joe Goodman.
- Meals on Wheels People, Portland, OR. $1,000. For general operating support directed by Sandy Sawchuk.
- Meals on Wheels People, Portland, OR. $1,000. For general operating support directed by Pamela Hays.
- North Coast Land Conservancy, Seaside, OR. $1,000. For general operating support directed by Eric Wan.
- North Coast Land Conservancy, Seaside, OR. $1,000. For general operating support directed by Michele Goodman.
- Self-Help for the Elderly, San Francisco, CA. $1,000. For general operating support directed by Honmai Goodman.