Founder's Story
It all started with one Asian American couple, Ping and Amy Chao, donating to one significant cause—congenital heart disease surgery for poor families in rural China.
The Chaos saw the life-saving impact of their original donation. And they saw the great need of many more families in the same desperate situation. Hundreds of children were dying because of the heart disease, even though they could have been saved with surgery. Sadly, their peasant families couldn’t afford the necessary treatment.
Wanting to save more lives, the Chaos invited their friends to join the cause. The donor community started to grow, and so did their impact.
In 2011, Transparent Fish Fund became a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit organization, founded in Palo Alto, California. We were born out of a spirit of philanthropy that has spread internationally. Even many of our beneficiaries have developed a desire to give back to society, after experiencing the help we’ve given them. What began as one couple donating to one cause has now expanded into a network of donors supporting multiple poverty alleviation projects in East Asia.
The Chaos saw the life-saving impact of their original donation. And they saw the great need of many more families in the same desperate situation. Hundreds of children were dying because of the heart disease, even though they could have been saved with surgery. Sadly, their peasant families couldn’t afford the necessary treatment.
Wanting to save more lives, the Chaos invited their friends to join the cause. The donor community started to grow, and so did their impact.
In 2011, Transparent Fish Fund became a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit organization, founded in Palo Alto, California. We were born out of a spirit of philanthropy that has spread internationally. Even many of our beneficiaries have developed a desire to give back to society, after experiencing the help we’ve given them. What began as one couple donating to one cause has now expanded into a network of donors supporting multiple poverty alleviation projects in East Asia.