Li Ka-shing

The four-line truth

Lines are separate lifecycle measures and are never summed: committed = donor-published award/approved-commitment flows or signed recipient-confirmed commitments within the displayed source coverage period, including exact named commitments, plus reviewed current forward-portfolio aggregates that are never accumulated across source snapshots; awaiting = latest-FY statutory 'approved for future payment' or audited future-support-obligation balance; deployed = disclosed paid amounts, split into statutory, recipient-confirmed, and donor-reported evidence; in vehicles = transfers to controlled vehicles, DAFs, recipient foundations, or unresolved associated vehicles pending onward evidence (withheld-amount gifts counted separately). Absence of events is absence of loaded evidence, not zero giving.

Top recipients

1. The Chinese University of Hong Kong2 grants · FY2022–FY2023 ·recipient-confirmed$23.0M
2. University of Cambridge Early Cancer Institute1 grant · FY2024 ·recipient-confirmed$14.0M

Largest recipients across loaded paid line-item records; recipient names as filed (entity resolution pending). Aggregate-basis sources carry no recipient detail.

Transparency

• Publishes an open grants databaseno donor-published database loaded0/40
• Capital traceable to a named recipient100% of $37,035,08030/30
• Statutory filings carry recipient detailno statutory filings loaded0/15
• Most recent evidenceFY202415/15

Voluntary points reward disclosure the donor chose — publishing an open grants database, and naming recipients. Compelled points reflect how completely and how currently their statutory filings land. The split exists because disclosure regimes differ by jurisdiction: a high compelled score is law-abiding, not generous, and a low one may reflect a rule the donor did not write.

Vehicles · 5 regulator- or Wikidata-linked

• Cheung Kong Holdingsno EIN claim
• JioStarno EIN claim
• Li Ka Shing Foundationconfirmed_hk_ird_section_88_and_manual_first_party_founder_reviewHK-IRD-S88 LI KA SHING FOUNDATION LIMITED · founder and long-term principal funder per manually reviewed first-party material
• Orange UKno EIN claim
• CK Hutchison Holdingsno EIN claim

Provenance