— Chiang and Matthews Foundation

Structural investment. Not charity.

We fund the conditions that let change stick—partnership ecosystems, scalable programs, and long-term accountability. If your work is built to last, we want to understand it.

Education, community, and advancement are one system.

Siloed programs solve single problems. We fund the connective tissue—initiatives where educational access reinforces community development, and community strength enables individual advancement.

/ How we think

That requires partners who think in ecosystems and measure what holds. We commit fully when both conditions are met.

Wide environmental shot inside a community learning center, two adults co-planning over a large table covered with documents and annotated maps, diffused north-facing window light filling the room, hands visible mid-gesture, chairs and bookshelves receding into background—context and place fully readable
Wide environmental shot inside a community learning center, two adults co-planning over a large table covered with documents and annotated maps, diffused north-facing window light filling the room, hands visible mid-gesture, chairs and bookshelves receding into background—context and place fully readable
Three interconnected areas

Where we focus—and why together.

Educational Access
Community Development
Social Advancement

Learning opportunities and mentorship that build durable academic and professional capacity—prioritizing under-resourced settings where gaps in funding limit progress.

Projects that address structural social needs, encourage cross-sector collaboration, and build the neighborhood infrastructure that sustained progress depends on.

Inclusive initiatives that connect individuals to economic pathways and measurable outcomes—backed by the kind of rigor that shows what works and what doesn't.

Built for scale? Ready to be accountable?

We review organizations whose programs have a clear path to scale and a framework for measuring outcomes. If that's your work, the grantmaking process starts here.