Equally important were well-heeled foundations like the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation of New York, which began funding China studies with large sums of money beginning inthe 1930s.
和這些學術團體同樣重要的，則是幾個著名的基金會，像是洛克斐勒基金會、福特基金會、以及紐約卡內基基金會等。它們從三○年代開始，就投注了很大的財力在美國的東亞研究上。