Scholarships
Education & Opportunity
Education & Scholarships
Supporting students through scholarship opportunities, with special attention to academic achievement, perseverance, and future promise.
Education • Community • Stewardship
Building a lasting family tradition of giving.
A multi-generational educational philanthropy foundation — helping students reach the highest levels of learning, achievement, and stewardship.
2021Founded
$29K+Total Giving
18Grantees
3Scholarship Tracks
Our Purpose
A multi-generational educational philanthropy foundation.
Focused on helping students reach the highest levels of learning, achievement, and stewardship — built from a Vietnamese-American family story of immigration, education, and service.
The Foundation exists to turn those values into practical support for students, families, schools, and community institutions. The approach is steady and deliberate: give thoughtfully, manage responsibly, keep clear records, and build charitable traditions that can continue for generations.
Current Focus Areas
Focused giving with a long horizon.
Supporting education, opportunity, scientific curiosity, and community stability through practical charitable giving.
STEM
Engineering & Science
Engineering & STEM
Encouraging students who show academic strength, leadership, initiative, and professional promise in engineering and related disciplines.
Discovery
Science & Nature
Science & Discovery
Supporting institutions that make science, nature, environmental care, and hands-on learning visible to families and students.
Legacy
Family & Stewardship
Family Stewardship
Teaching future generations the value of responsible giving, service, careful recordkeeping, and caring for others.
Scholarship Programs
Scholarships built on personal connection.
The Pham Foundation awards scholarships through direct institutional partnerships — selecting schools and universities where the family has a personal connection, then committing for the long term.
Active
Established March 2026
SJSU Engineering Scholarship
Inaugural $5,000 scholarship grant through San José State University to support a promising engineering student selected through the university process.
In Development
Launching 2026
Quảng Ngãi Scholarship
A five-year program at Trần Quốc Tuấn High School honoring academic excellence, perseverance, and distinguished teaching.
Planned
Target 2027
UC Berkeley Engineering
A planned expansion of the Foundation’s university partnership work, with Tammy T. Duong as the lead alumni point of contact.
Science & Discovery Support
Four institutions. A promise made in 2021.
The Pham Foundation has supported the California Academy of Sciences, Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Gardens of Golden Gate Park, and the Exploratorium since its founding — a commitment made before any other program was in place.
These four Bay Area institutions shaped how our family learned together. Saturday mornings at the Academy. Quiet walks through the gardens. Our daughters watching engineers at the Exploratorium and marine biologists at the Aquarium — science and nature not as subjects, but as experiences worth returning to.
That is what the Foundation is built to sustain. Their work makes curiosity visible, keeps the natural world present in public life, and gives families access to learning that lasts. The Foundation’s support is permanent — not project by project, but as a standing commitment.
California Academy of Sciences
Natural history, planetarium science, public education, curiosity, and conservation awareness.
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Marine education, ocean conservation, and the responsibility to protect the natural world.
The Gardens of Golden Gate Park
Botanical education, public access to nature, peaceful reflection, and environmental learning.
The Exploratorium
Hands-on experimentation, engineering curiosity, interactive learning, and family discovery.
Public Information & Transparency
Clear records, public summaries, responsible oversight.
The Foundation publishes public financial summaries and program information in a clear, understandable format.
IRS Filing
990-PF Public Summary
IRS Form 990-PF Summaries
Public financial summaries outlining foundation revenue, assets, and charitable activity.
Grants
Grantmaking Record
Grantmaking Summary
A clear review of charitable allocations, grant counts, and program summaries across Foundation operating years.
Note: Pham Foundation is a private family foundation. The Foundation currently supports selected organizations and institutional partnerships and does not operate a general open grant application process at this time.