
Our Grant History
Orchid Giving Circle® has awarded $1,360,000 in grants over our first eight years to 30 different organizations!
Bryan's House
A pilot program in partnership with Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation to expand programming to women living with issues common to parenting children with special needs and who might also be facing challenges unique to their refugee status, poverty, and/or domestic violence situation.
Year
Grant Amount
2022
$15,000
Non-Profit Category
Civic
Community Served
All

Children's Advocacy Center of Denton
Bridging the Gap in Victims Services
Support the Chin families (their second largest language group) and other Asian language speakers with translation services and expanded infrastructure.
Year
Grant Amount
2022
$15,000
Non-Profit Category
Trauma Recovery
Community Served
All

Mosaic Family Services
Multicultural Victims Services Program
Partially supports a salary for a full-time case manager that serves women and children survivors of abuse, including victims of family violence, trafficking, and/or sexual assault.
Year
Grant Amount
2022
$20,000
Non-Profit Category
Trauma Recovery
Community Served
Women and Children

Wellness Center for Geriatric Adults
Preventative Health Care Program
Removes barriers such as transportation for elderly Asian women redesign in Community Homes and Low-Income Housing Tax credit Apartments through Collin County.
Year
Grant Amount
2022
$15,000
Non-Profit Category
Health
Community Served
Women

Asian Americans Advancing Justice
Grant will contribute to the Demographic Research Project Report that will be developed on a digital demographic website. It will incorporate disaggregated data from the 2020 Census, American Community Survey, and other datasets available on AAPI communities, including community-level input.
Year
Grant Amount
2021
$5,000
Non-Profit Category
Civic
Community Served
All

Asian Breast Health
Grant will support a 20-year-old breast health outreach program at Methodist Richardson Medical Center that empowers the local ethnic communities to do their routine mammograms and provide access to breast cancer detection.
Year
Grant Amount
2021
$15,000
Non-Profit Category
Women's Healthcare
Community Served
Women

Asian Film Festival
Grant will support the Women's Film Showcase The Asian Film Festival of Dallas that will spotlight Asian and Asian-American women filmmakers. The Festival is scheduled for July 2022 and provides networking and a public platform for Asian Women in the film industry.
Year
Grant Amount
2021
$15,000
Non-Profit Category
Arts
Community Served
Women

Dallas Holocaust Museums and Human Rights Museum
Grant will support the Courage and Compassion Special Exhibit; our shared story of the Japanese American World War II Experience. The Exhibit is scheduled for January 2022—June 2022.
Year
Grant Amount
2021
$15,000
Non-Profit Category
Arts
Community Served
All

International Rescue Committee
Grant will contribute to the costs of hiring an Extended Case Manager Casework Assistant to support Extended Case Management (ECM) program enrollment and service provision for Asian refugee Women.
Year
Grant Amount
2021
$15,000
Non-Profit Category
Services
Community Served
Women

Literacy Achieves
Grant will be used to support programs for immigrant and refugee families by providing free educational programs, including Adult English Literacy, Early Childhood, and Student Support Services in the Vickery Meadow neighborhood.
Year
Grant Amount
2021
$15,000
Non-Profit Category
Education
Community Served
Families

Senior Source
Grant will allow older adults to volunteer in the community, through the Foster Grandparent Program and RSVP Program. These programs will address the isolation currently being felt while allowing them to be role models to others both children and adults.
Year
Grant Amount
2021
$10,000
Non-Profit Category
Services
Community Served
All

Texas Muslim Women's Foundation
Grant will support a program that will address domestic and intimate partner violence (including sexual violence). It promotes self-sufficiency, resiliency, healing, safety, and long-term independence for people who have experienced family violence.
Year
Grant Amount
2021
$15,000
Non-Profit Category
Services
Community Served
All

Trinity Habitat for Humanity
Grant will help with home construction costs for, a refugee woman from Myanmar. This neighborhood revitalization program is focused on ending the cycle of poverty through sustainable affordable housing
Year
Grant Amount
2021
$5,000
Non-Profit Category
Services
Community Served
Women

Vickery Meadow Youth Development
Grant will support a program that provides college readiness to 7th-12th grade students in the Vickery Meadow community. One hundred percent of the Scholars graduate from high school, with 86% enrolling in college, 69% persisting through college, and 49% graduating college.
Year
Grant Amount
2021
$15,000
Non-Profit Category
Education
Community Served
Children

Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (dba APIA Scholars )
APIA Scholars provide college scholarships to undergraduate female APIA Scholars in North Texas.Funds will provide scholarships to 5 women college students at $2500 each.
Year
Grant Amount
2020
$12,500
Non-Profit Category
Education
Community Served
Women

Chetna
Provides culturally specific services to South Asian victims of domestic violence.Funds will be used to provide access to legal services, develop skills in the workforce, and remove transportation barriers they face.
Year
Grant Amount
2020
$20,000
Non-Profit Category
Domestic Violence
Community Served
All

Communities in Schools in North Texas
Empowers PK-12 students to stay in school and achieve in life. The goal is to decrease dropout rates for this underserved community.The grant will be used to hire a part-time Chin Family Engagement Specialist (CFES).
Year
Grant Amount
2020
$20,000
Non-Profit Category
Education
Community Served
Children

Dallas Chinese Community Center
Serves both the Asian and the non-Asian communities in the DFW area through educational, cultural, and recreational programs and activities for both adults and children. The grant will focus on life skills for underserved Asians at age 50+, equality for men and women in their 20's to '40s, and leadership in children ages 8 to 18.
Year
Grant Amount
2020
$20,000
Non-Profit Category
Education
Community Served
All
Heart House
Is an education non-profit that serves refugee children with a holistic afterschool program utilizing trauma-informed care to help them thrive in their new community. The grant would go towards salaries and training for staff providing these critical services.
Year
Grant Amount
2020
$15,000
Non-Profit Category
Education
Community Served
Children

Ignite
Motivates women at an early age to become civically engaged to become the next generation of policymakers and political leaders. This grant will be used for staff that will create and execute programming for AAPI young women across DFW to become civically engaged and step into political power.
Year
Grant Amount
2020
$11,500
Non-Profit Category
Civic Engagement
Community Served
Women

Literacy Achieves
Serves immigrant and refugee families with free educational programs including Adult English Literacy, Early Childhood, and Student Support Services. Funding will support the English Literacy Programs in Vickery Meadow serving 600 adults and 135 young children annually.
Year
Grant Amount
2020
$15,000
Non-Profit Category
Education
Community Served
All

Literacy Achieves
Orchid Giving Circle received a grant from AAPIP ( Asian American Pacific Islander in Philanthropy) from their Covid-19 mini-grant fund. Mini-grants were to be used to supplement the grantmaking of giving circles toward addressing the rise of racism against Asian-Americans in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Literacy Achieves received a mini-grant of $3000 to support their “All Have Value” Campaign that addresses Anti-Asian Discrimination and will provide volunteer and staff training specific to the Asian population.
Year
Grant Amount
2020
$3,000
Non-Profit Category
Arts & Culture
Community Served
All
Methodist Richardson Medical Center Foundation dba Asian Breast Health Outreach Project
Provides breast health awareness, education, navigation & mammogram services to our local minority communities. This grant will support the budget needed to provide these services to our Asian communities.
Year
Grant Amount
2020
$10,000
Non-Profit Category
Health
Community Served
Women

Mosaic Family Services
Meets the needs of multicultural women and children who are survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking. Will support partial salary for a Shelter Advocate and hotline interpretation costs for Asian languages, supporting approximately 50 Asian women and girls.
Year
Grant Amount
2020
$20,000
Non-Profit Category
Domestic Violence
Community Served
Women and Children
Orchid Giving Circle Leadership GrantIt's a Sensory World
Executive Director, Rekha Suryanarayana created a program that serves children with special needs.This grant will be used for a staff retreat. There is an increased need for nonrestrictive funds due to the COVID pandemic
Year
Grant Amount