The Asia Society
The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.
Key facts about The Asia Society
In short: The Asia Society gave $262K across 2 grants in 2025 (avg $131K), mostly in California. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.
- EIN
- 13-3234632
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025
- Annual giving (2025)
- $261,651
- Grants made (2025)
- 2
- Average grant
- $130,826
- Median grant
- $130,826
- Total assets
- $123,532,820
- Primary geography
- California (100% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026.
Financial Overview
From 2025 IRS Form 990 · View filing
Total Assets
$123.5M
-2.5% YoY
Annual Giving
$262K
-44.8% YoY
Grant Count
2
-33.3% YoY
Avg Grant Size
$131K
-17.2% YoY
How The Asia Society gives
- Giving held roughly steady from 2022 to 2025 (−19%). Method
From the foundation's IRS Form 990 filings. Methodology.
About The Asia Society
Based on IRS filings
The Asia Society is a public charity focused on International, Foreign Affairs & National Security, based in New York, NY. IRS filing data is available from 2019 through 2025. As of 2025, the organization holds $123.5M in total assets. In 2025, it awarded 2 grants totaling $262K. Net investment income was $9.1M.
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Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
Grant Distribution by State
Share of 2025 grant dollars across all 2 itemized grants.
States
Cities
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $183K (2023) to $946K (2020). In 2025 it made 2 grants totaling $262K.
Grant Insights
How this funder distributes its grants
Top Recipients
Top recipient in 2025
The largest 2025 recipient was The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University ($237K).
Organizations only. It also paid 1 grant to individuals ($25,000), which are not listed by name.
Grant Size Distribution
83 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was under $50K: 76 grants of 83 (92%).
Giving History
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Redwood City, CA | Hoover Fellows Subgrant Payment | $236,651 |
| 1 grant to individuals Recipients not named | — | $25,000 |
Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Assets | $123,532,820 | $126,639,988 | $122,919,115 |
| Revenue | $29,605,387 | $30,876,719 | $30,405,832 |
| Expenses | $32,286,306 | $34,134,981 | $32,109,391 |
| Net Investment Income | $9,079,764 | $3,629,125 | $4,241,521 |
Data update history
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS March 7, 2022)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS April 20, 2023)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS March 25, 2024)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS April 30, 2025)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS April 16, 2026)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS May 7, 2020)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS March 5, 2021)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2019–2025
Leadership & Key People
Officers and directors from IRS filings
The Asia Society is led by Kyung-Wha Kang, President & CEO since 2025 (on filings since 2024); 9 of 79 officers listed in 2025 are compensated.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Kyung-Wha Kang
President & CEO
President & CEO - → President & CEO, 2025
On filings since 2024
40 hrs/week
$511K (2025)
Orville Schell
Vice President, Ctr Us-China Rel & Arthur Ross Director
Arthur Ross Director → Arthur Ross Director Center Us-China Relations, 2021
Arthur Ross Director Center Us-China Relations → Vice President, Ctr Us-China Rel & Arthur Ross Director, 2022
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$303K (2019) → $310K (2025)
Adrian T. Keller
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Albert Chao
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Asheet Mehta
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Charles P. Rockefeller
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Chong-Moon Lee
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Doris Magsaysay Ho
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Duncan Clark
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Edward R. Allen III
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Fernando Zobel De Ayala
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Frederick M. Demopoulos
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2020
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
George G. Hicks
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Henry Cornell
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Hrh Turki Al Faisal
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Isaac Applbaum
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
J. Frank Brown
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
J. Michael Evans
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
James D. Zirin
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
James Kondo
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2020
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Jamshyd Godrej
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
John D. Negroponte
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
K. S. Sonny Kalsi
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Mahmood J. Khimji
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Michael S. Chae
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Mohit Assomull
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Neil Shen
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Nicolas Aguzin
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Nicolas Berggruen
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Nicolas Rohatyn
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Omar Ishrak
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Purnendu Chatterjee
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Stephen Riady
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2020
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Susan S. Hakkarainen
Trustee
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Thierry Porte
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2020
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
W. Bradford Hu
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2020
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Ernie Thrasher
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2021
On filings since 2020
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Jane Jie Sun
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2021
On filings since 2020
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Jean Liu
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2021
On filings since 2020
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Emily K. Rafferty
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2022
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Eunice Zehnder-Lai
Trustee -
Trustee - → Trustee, 2022
Trustee → Trustee -, 2025
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Katie Soo
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2022
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Y. Ping Sun
Trustee -
Trustee - → Trustee, 2022
Trustee → Trustee -, 2025
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Evan G. Greenberg
Trustee -
Trustee - → Trustee, 2023
Trustee → Trustee -, 2025
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Filippo Gori
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2023
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Gary Rieschel
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2023
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Geoff Martha
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2023
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Ida Liu
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2023
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Josephine Linden
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2023
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Mark E. Tucker
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2023
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Serge Dumont
Trustee -
Trustee - → Trustee, 2023
Trustee → Trustee -, 2025
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Stephanie Hui
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2023
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Kuo Chuan Kc Kung
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2024
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2024
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Sangita Jindal
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2024
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Philip Qu
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2025
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Raj Rao
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2025
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Seung-Yoon Sy Lee
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2025
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Vivienne Tam
Trustee
Trustee - → Trustee, 2025
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Chris Kojima
Trustee -
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Jessica Tan
Trustee -
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
John Keogh
Trustee -
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Martyn Goossen
Trustee -
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Stuart Fuller
Trustee -
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Vali Nasr
Trustee -
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Daniel Russel
Vice President, Int'l Secretary & Diplomacy -
Vice President & Int'l Security → Vice President, Int'l Security & Diplomacy, 2021
Vice President, Int'l Security & Diplomacy → Vice President, Int'l Secretary & Diplomacy -, 2025
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$196K (2019) → $325K (2025)
Wendy Cutler
Vice President, Md & Washington Dc Officer
Vice President Managing Director Washington → Vice President & Managing Director Washington, 2022
Vice President & Managing Director Washington → Vice President, Md & Washington Dc Officer, 2023
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$281K (2019) → $325K (2025)
Shane Williams-Ness
Chief Development Officer
Managing Director & Philanthropy → Chief Development Officer, 2022
On filings since 2020
40 hrs/week
$200K (2020) → $270K (2025)
Aalok Kanani
Chief Digital & Committee Officer
On filings since 2023
40 hrs/week
$241K (2023) → $278K (2025)
Debra Eisenman
Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
Chief Operating Officer → Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, 2024
On filings since 2023
40 hrs/week
$271K (2023) → $368K (2025)
Kevin Hogan
Chief Financial Officer
New on the 2025 filing
40 hrs/week
$271K (2025)
Yasufumi Nakamori
Vice President, Arts & Culture -
New on the 2025 filing
40 hrs/week
$264K (2025)
Betsy Z. Cohen
Vice Chair & Secretary
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Chan Heng Chee
Co-Chair
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Hamid Biglari
Vice Chair
Trustee → Vice Chair, 2021
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
John L. Thornton
Co-Chair
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Lulu C. Wang
Vice Chair
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Robert Niehaus
Treasurer
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (51)
- Former: Dong Bin Shin (2019–2024) — Trustee -
- Former: Harit Talwar (2019–2024) — Trustee -
- Former: Julia Nelson (2019–2024) — CFO · Filing note: Ended 112023
- Former: Kevin M. Rudd (2019–2024) — Former President, CEO, President & Aspi · Filing note: Ended 032023
- Former: Bates Gill (2024) — Executive Director & Cca
- Former: Denise Saul (2019–2023) — Trustee -
- Former: Gaoning Frank Ning (2019–2023) — Trustee -
- Former: Ido Leffler (2019–2023) — Trustee -
- Former: Lee Hong-Koo (2019–2023) — Trustee -
- Former: Mitchell R. Julis (2019–2023) — Trustee -
- Former: Paula Hunker (2019–2023) — Chief Administrative Officer · Filing note: Ended 102022
- Former: Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe (2022–2023) — Former Vice President, Gbl Art & Director As Museum · Filing note: Ended 6/2022
- Former: Sherian Abramaitys-Yi (2023) — Md, People & Culture -
- Former: Anne Godshall (2019–2022) — Man. Director, Vis. Engage., Events & CMO
- Former: Anthony Jackson (2019–2022) — Vice President, Edu. & Director Ctr. for Global Edu. · Filing note: Ended 082021
- Former: Chen Guoqing (2019–2022) — Trustee -
- Former: Harold J. Newman (2019–2022) — Trustee -
- Former: Josette M. Sheeran (2019–2022) — Former President & CEO
- Former: Kenneth Wilcox (2019–2022) — Trustee -
- Former: Oscar L. Tang (2019–2022) — Trustee -
- Former: Richard Drobnick (2019–2022) — Trustee -
- Former: Thomas Nagorski (2019–2022) — Former Executive Vice President · Filing note: Ended 062021
- Former: Toyoo Gyohten (2019–2022) — Trustee -
- Former: Tina Duong (2020–2022) — Chief Development Officer · Filing note: Ended 072021
- Former: Debra Eisenman - Eff (2022) — Chief Operating Officer
- Former: Margaret Conley (2022) — Executive Director & Asnc
- Former: Boon Hui Tan (2019–2021) — Vice President for Global Arts & Cul -
- Former: Caroline Kennedy (2019–2021) — Trustee -
- Former: Harold McGraw III (2019–2021) — Trustee -
- Former: Indra K. Nooyi (2019–2021) — Trustee -
- Former: Joseph Y. Bae (2019–2021) — Trustee -
- Former: Richard Plepler (2019–2021) — Trustee -
- Former: Strive Masiyiwa (2019–2021) — Trustee -
- Former: Warwick L. Smith (2019–2021) — Trustee -
- Former: Zhang Xin (2019–2021) — Trustee -
- Former: Ks Sonny Kalsi (2021) — Trustee
- Former: Anne B Ehrenkranz (2019–2020) — Trustee -
- Former: Beth E Dozoretz (2019–2020) — Trustee -
- Former: Francisco Aristeguieta (2019–2020) — Trustee -
- Former: Lewis B Kaden (2019–2020) — Vice Chair -
- Former: Renee Fleming (2019–2020) — Trustee -
- Former: Ram Krishnan (2020) — Trustee -
- Former: Anthony Walton (2019) — Trustee -
- Former: Bruce Pickering (2019) — Vice President & Senior Advisor -
- Former: Christine Davies (2019) — Vice President & Global Pships -
- Former: Donald Nagle (2019) — CFO & Senior Vice President -
- Former: James E Rogers (2019) — Trustee -
- Former: Ronnie C Chan (2019) — Trustee -
- Former: Shayne Doty (2019) — Man Director of Phil. -
- Former: Stephen Bird (2019) — Trustee -
- Former: Willem Kooyker (2019) — Trustee -
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Compensation Overview
From 2025 IRS filing
The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $511K, to Kyung-Wha Kang (President & CEO). 9 officers or directors reported compensation on that filing.
Frequently asked questions about The Asia Society
How much does The Asia Society give each year?
The Asia Society gave $262K across 2 grants in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $474K across 3 grants.
How large is The Asia Society?
The Asia Society reported $123.5M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $29.6M.
What is The Asia Society?
The Asia Society is a public charity focused on International, Foreign Affairs & National Security, based in New York, NY. It holds $123.5M in total assets as of 2025.
Where does The Asia Society operate?
The Asia Society has awarded grants in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia.
What is The Asia Society's EIN?
The Asia Society's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 13-3234632. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.
Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings.
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