The Center for U.S.-China Arts Exchange was established at Columbia University with support grants from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Ford Foundation and a research grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.

Support Grants and Contributions (1978-2018)

Alphabetical list of major supporters:

  • Gerald Adelmann
  • Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation
  • ARCO
  • ARCO Foundation
  • Asian Cultural Council
  • Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies
  • Atlantic Richfield Foundation
  • Elizabeth Brown Barnes
  • Broadcast Music, Inc.
  • The Burke Foundation
  • Celanese Corporation
  • Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Chan
  • Chen Yifei
  • Chiang Ching
  • Chou Wen-chung
  • Yi-an Chou
  • Committee on Scholarly Communication
  • Edward Corn, Jr.
  • Carolyn George d’Amboise
  • Exxon Corporation
  • Linda and Edwin Faber
  • Ford Foundation
  • Lillian Gladstone, Ph.D.
  • Goldsmith-Perry Philanthropies, Inc.
  • Harold Shaw, Inc.
  • The Harris Foundation
  • The Henry Luce Foundation
  • H.J. Heinz Company Foundation
  • Hewlett-Packard Company
  • Walter and Esther Hewlett
  • Hopewell Foundation, Inc.
  • ITT Corporation
  • J. Aron Charitable Foundation, Inc.
  • Barbara Stewart Johnson
  • Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
  • Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation
  • Porter and Susan McKeever
  • W.B. McKeown
  • Sana Musasama
  • The New York Times Company Foundation, Inc.
  • Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Ng
  • Marcia K. Nielsen
  • Waldemar A. Nielsen
  • Northern Telecom
  • Occidental Petroleum Corporation 
  • Mr. and Mrs. George D. O’Neill
  • Philip Morris International, Inc.
  • Roberta Pew-Bandy/Astral Foundation 
  • Rockefeller Brothers Fund 
  • Norman A. Ross
  • Dr. and Mrs. William Shaw
  • Helen Walker Spencer
  • The Starr Foundation
  • Robert S. Tangeman
  • Audrey Topping
  • United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
  • Video Music Productions, Inc.
  • Wallace Funds
  • Lila Acheson Wallace
  • The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
  • Wolcott Builders