How to apply
Accepts applications
The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.
- Contact
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Joseph Esherick
1009 Miller Ave
Berkeley, CA 94708
(510) 356-4736
[email protected] - Form and materials
- in Word and PDF format files transcripts reference letters all uploaded to the Foundation website
- Deadlines
- end January
- Restrictions
- Grants restricted to graduate and post-doctoral level fieldwork and projects in the areas of modern Chinese history and China archaeology
Assets and giving by year
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Tax year 2025
$51,275
- Grants listed
- 13
- Assets, end of year
- $1,151,920
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Tax year 2024
$26,762
- Grants listed
- 5
- Assets, end of year
- $950,973
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Tax year 2023
$45,590
- Grants listed
- 11
- Assets, end of year
- $781,915
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Tax year 2022
$34,750
- Grants listed
- 7
- Assets, end of year
- $655,478
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Tax year 2021
$33,720
- Grants listed
- 9
- Assets, end of year
- $735,003
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Tax year 2020
$6,450
- Grants listed
- 3
- Assets, end of year
- $590,359
Grants paid in 2025
As listed on the return. Grants to individuals show as “Individual”, with purpose and amount only.
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Individual
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Permafrost Science and the Trans-polar History of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway 1954-2006
$6,000 -
Individual
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Collapse of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance in Cold War Yunnan 1964-1993
$6,000 -
Individual
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Gender Grassroots Politics and State Building in the PRC 1949-1990s
$5,600 -
Individual
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Mortuary and Urban Landscapes of Late Shang 1250-1046 BC Anyang
$5,000 -
Individual
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: The Superiority of Rights in the Tungsten Industry of China 1907-present
$4,700 -
Individual
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Bioarchaeological Study of Daily Life and Identity During the Tang-Song Transition
$4,640 -
Individual
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Rice Consumption in the Late Neolithic Liangzhu Culture in Southern China
$4,640 -
Individual
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Nature Sovereignty and Development in the Gulf of Tonkin 1880-1970
$4,095 -
Individual
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Environmental Governmentality in the Qing Era Wuling Mountains
$2,980 -
Individual
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Bioarchaeological Study of the Mogou Cemetery
$2,820 -
Individual
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Agricultural Innovation and Wheat Variety Changes in Rural Shaanxi 1930-1980
$2,400 -
Individual
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Household Structure and the Standard of Living in pre-Industrial China 1650-1950
$1,300 -
Individual
Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Production Organization and Consumer Culture in Sugar Production of Early Modern Taiwan
$1,100
Officers, directors and trustees
As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.
- Joseph EsherickPresident Director Hours 3Pay $0
- Ye WaSecretary Director Hours 2Pay $0
- Lily WuTreasurer Hours 2.5Pay $0
- Michael G ChangDirector Hours 1Pay $0
- Rowan FladDirector Hours 1Pay $0
- Denise Y HoDirector Hours 1Pay $0
- Elizabeth BergerDirector Hours 1Pay $0
- Emily BaumDirector Hours 1Pay $0
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