Jen-Hsun & Lori Huang Foundation

The Jen-Hsun & Lori Huang Foundation is a private charitable foundation set up in 2007 by NVIDIA NVIDIANVIDIA is an American semiconductor and computing technology company that provides graphics processing units, artificial intelligence infrastructure, networking interconnects, and computing software, and is listed on Nasdaq under the ticker NVDA.Open the full entry founder Jensen Huang Jensen HuangJensen Huang is a co-founder of NVIDIA who served as its president, chief executive officer, and a director from the company’s founding in 1993 until he resigned from those positions in November 2026. He has a background in electrical engineering education and the semiconductor industry, and under his leadership NVIDIA’s business expanded from graphics chips to GPU general-purpose computing, artificial intelligence, and data center computing platforms.Open the full entry and his wife, Lori Huang Lori HuangLori Huang (née Mills) is the wife of Jensen Huang and the president of the couple’s family foundation, the Jen-Hsun & Lori Huang Foundation.Open the full entry. Registered in Palo Alto, California CaliforniaCalifornia is a U.S. state on the Pacific coast; its capital is Sacramento and its largest city is Los Angeles. California was admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850, as the 31st state. Its population at the 2020 Census (April 1, 2020) was 39,538,223, the largest of any state.Open the full entry, it is led by Lori Huang as president, with Jensen Huang as secretary and chief financial officer. It supports higher education, public health and STEM programs and San Francisco Bay Area community organizations, and holds NVIDIA stock.

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2007Establishment

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2024Officers and Finances

The foundation is registered in Palo Alto, California; its filings list Jensen Huang as secretary and chief financial officer and Lori Huang as president, and as of June 2024 they were its only officers, neither receiving compensation. Its Form 990-PF filing shows total assets of $9,212,451,171 at the end of the 2024 fiscal year and charitable disbursements of $126,336,116 that year.⁠[3]

February 14, 2025Matching Gift to California College of the Arts

California College of the Arts announced that it had raised nearly $45 million, including a $22.5 million matching gift from the Jen-Hsun & Lori Huang Foundation.⁠[4]

May 2025NVIDIA Shares Held

NVIDIA’s 2025 proxy statement lists the foundation as holding 63,793,830 shares of NVIDIA common stock as of March 24, 2025, with the Huangs disclaiming any pecuniary interest in those shares. The 2026 proxy statement lists 58,683,830 shares held as of March 23, 2026.⁠[5][6]

May 2026Donating GPU Computing Time Through CoreWeave

The related-person transactions section of NVIDIA’s 2026 proxy statement discloses that the foundation (called the Huang Foundation there) has an agreement with the cloud provider CoreWeave CoreWeaveCoreWeave is an AI cloud computing company based in New Jersey that started in 2017 as the cryptocurrency miner Atlantic Crypto, later became a provider of AI computing built on Nvidia GPUs, and listed on Nasdaq in March 2025 under the ticker CRWV; its customers include OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft.Open the full entry to buy GPU computing time and donate it to universities and other nonprofit research institutions for open science and AI research, with $108.3 million donated to date.⁠[6]

Topic: The Huangs’ Gifts to Universities

Gifts from Jensen Huang and Lori Huang have also made possible Stanford University Stanford UniversityStanford University is a research university in California founded by Leland and Jane Stanford in 1885 and opened in 1891.Open the full entry’s Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center (dedicated in 2010), Oregon State University’s interdisciplinary research center and Huang Complex, and the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design that Vanderbilt University plans in San Francisco (a $75 million gift announced in July 2026).⁠[7][2][8]