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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 92-2368498

JM Pei Foundation

A private foundation in Palo Alto, CA. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 5 grants and $10,537 paid in grants.

Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

3 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.
  • Tax year 2025

    $10,537

    Grants listed
    5
    Assets, end of year
    $1,046,664
  • Tax year 2024

    $17,917

    Grants listed
    4
    Assets, end of year
    $596,160
  • Tax year 2023

    $2,500

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $249,109

Grants paid in 2025

5 grants, largest first

As listed on the return. Grants to individuals show as “Individual”, with purpose and amount only.

  1. Individual

    To reach out to mainstream society and other cultural communities to share [individual] with passion; To promote education with belief and conviction; To enable children and others to have opportunities to learn with love; To sponsor less-privileged children in the rural areas of China.

    $7,500
  2. UC Berkeley FoundationBerkeley, CA

    To support and advance the University of California at Berkeley by encouraging private philanthropy and providing leadership to assure Berkeley's place as a preeminent global institution.

    $2,100
  3. Silicon Valley Tsinghua NetworkMilpitas, CA

    To help the new comers to settle in the new environment, and help all the members in finding new jobs, learning the cutting edge technologies, bridging the gap among different groups, and helping resolving any issues.

    $500
  4. YMCA of Silicon ValleySan Jose, CA

    To strengthen our community by improving the quality of life and inspiring individuals and families to develop their fullest potential in spirit, mind and body.

    $337
  5. Individual

    To transform aid and philanthropy to accelerate community-led change.

    $100

Where the money goes

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. California3 grants $2,937

Officers, directors and trustees

3 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Mingliang PeiCEO Hours 1Pay $0
  • Jin LiSecretary Hours 1Pay $0
  • Jonathan PeiDirector Hours 1Pay $0

The return

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