Esherick-Ye Foundation
Private foundation · Berkeley, CA · EIN 81-1533848 · reported 2023–2025
29grants reported
$4,700median award
$2,980lower quartile
$1,100smallest grant
$124Ktotal paid
10states reached
3years giving
Gives every year. This foundation reported grants in 2023, 2024, 2025. A funder that shows up year after year is worth a letter even if this year is a no.
Where to write
1009 Miller Ave
Berkeley, CA 94708-1515
Address as registered with the IRS. Most foundations this size have no website and no application form, which is not a dead end: a short letter to this address is the whole process, and almost nobody sends one.
Who they funded
| Recipient and stated purpose | Where | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Jason Chan Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Permafrost Science and the Trans-polar History of the Qingha | Cambridge, MA | $6,000 |
| Junyi Han Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Collapse of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance in Cold War Yunnan | New Haven, CT | $6,000 |
| Guangchen Chen Fieldwork and research | Atlanta, GA | $6,000 |
| Zhiqiang Yang For fieldwork and research on paper: Tibetan Barbarians Chinese Outsiders and Muslim Strangers in Ch | New Haven, CT | $5,812 |
| Zhaorui Lu Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Gender Grassroots Politics and State Building in the PRC 194 | Irvine, CA | $5,600 |
| Chad Westra Grant for fieldwork and research on paper: Paper Regimes and Modern China: An Ecological History | Seattle, WA | $5,500 |
| Siyun Guo Grant for fieldwork and research on paper: Dwelling with Environmental Variability in Bronze Age NW | Chicago, IL | $5,450 |
| Niall Chithelen Fieldwork and research | San Diego, CA | $5,150 |
| Yuwei Zhou Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Mortuary and Urban Landscapes of Late Shang 1250-1046 BC Any | Chicago, IL | $5,000 |
| Xiangning Li Fieldwork and research | Chicago, IL | $5,000 |
| Xiaoyu Gao Grant for fieldwork and research on paper: British Global Trade Chilean Copper and the Transformatio | Chicago, IL | $5,000 |
| Aidan Lee Grant for fieldwork and research on paper: Land Use Ethnic Enclaves and State-Society Relations in T | Berkeley, CA | $5,000 |
| Xuexin Cai Fieldwork and research | New York, NY | $4,950 |
| Sau-Yi Fong Fieldwork and research | New York, NY | $4,800 |
| Gaoziyan Cui Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: The Superiority of Rights in the Tungsten Industry of China | Santa Barbara, CA | $4,700 |
| Ashley Shults Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Bioarchaeological Study of Daily Life and Identity During th | Riverside, CA | $4,640 |
| Yiyi Tang Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Rice Consumption in the Late Neolithic Liangzhu Culture in S | Hanover, NH | $4,640 |
| Benjamin Kletzer Fieldwork and research | San Diego, CA | $4,500 |
| Anke Wang Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Nature Sovereignty and Development in the Gulf of Tonkin 188 | Ithaca, NY | $4,095 |
| Yaohan Wu Fieldwork and research | San Diego, CA | $3,700 |
| Carola Franzen Fieldwork and research | Honolulu, HI | $3,200 |
| Yixue Yang Fieldwork and research | San Diego, CA | $3,000 |
| Shuhui Zhou Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Environmental Governmentality in the Qing Era Wuling Mountai | Seattle, WA | $2,980 |
| Ariadin Jones Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Bioarchaeological Study of the Mogou Cemetery | Los Angeles, CA | $2,820 |
| Amanda Zhang Fieldwork and research | Oxford | $2,790 |
| Helena Chen Fieldwork and research | Gainesville, FL | $2,500 |
| Shumeng Han Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Agricultural Innovation and Wheat Variety Changes in Rural S | LA Jolla, CA | $2,400 |
| Chris-Alexander Hess Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Household Structure and the Standard of Living in pre-Indust | Cambridge | $1,300 |
| Yen-Chun Wang Grant for fieldwork research on thesis: Production Organization and Consumer Culture in Sugar Produc | Los Angeles, CA | $1,100 |
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