Kenneth Hao
Profile Summary
Kenneth Hao is a California-based finance executive, born in 1968, with an estimated net worth of ~$2.5B RTB. A 2026 news report identified Hao as chairman of a private equity firm and reported that he and his wife, Kathy Chiao, had committed at least $175 million to the University of California during the first half of 2026 NewsAPI.
Business & SEC Activity
SEC EDGAR records list 82 insider filings for Hao, involving companies including SMART Global Holdings, Broadcom, Dell Technologies, SolarWinds, and Symantec SEC EDGAR. His recent filings include Form 4 reports in 2024, 2025, and 2026; Form 4 reports disclose insiders' purchases, sales, or other changes in company securities. The records also include a 2024 Form 144, which is a notice of a proposed sale of restricted or control securities SEC EDGAR.
Philanthropy
The Hao Family Foundation, based in Saratoga Springs, New York, reported $188.3 million in assets, $62.2 million in revenue, and $4.9 million in grants paid in tax year 2023 ProPublica 990. It reported $5.4 million in total expenses that year ProPublica 990.
Political Activity
FEC records show 36 contributions totaling $60,750 from 1997 through February 9, 2026 FEC. The party breakdown was $22,000 to Democratic recipients, $20,450 to Republican recipients, and $18,300 to recipients with an unknown party designation FEC. The largest listed recipients were Broadcom PAC ($10,000), Friends of Schumer ($7,800), Cory Gardner for Senate ($5,600), the McConnell Senate Committee ($5,000), and the McConnell for Majority Leader Committee ($5,000) FEC.
These donations are matched to this person by name only, so some may belong to a different person with the same name: FEC filings can include a donor's employer and city, but our matching does not check them against what we know about this person.
In the News
A June 2026 Inside Philanthropy article reported that Kenneth Hao and Kathy Chiao had committed at least $175 million to University of California hospitals during the first half of 2026 NewsAPI.
U.S. Presence
Philanthropy
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Political Contributions
By Party
Every party on file is listed here. The bars are rounded for display; unrounded they total exactly $60,750.
Top Recipients
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SEC Filings
Associated Companies
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Recent Insider Filings
Score Breakdown
The giving score is a weighted average of 2 components. The formula is open and versioned — the weight percentages below show how much each component contributes to the final score.
Evidenced charitable giving — built on what they actually give each year, not parked assets. Dominated by generosity (annual giving relative to net worth — the share of your fortune you give), plus the absolute scale of that giving, plus a small nudge for signing the Giving Pledge (a commitment, not a realized action).
Data: ProPublica 990 charitable disbursements, net worth, The Giving Pledge registry
How much sourced public record we hold about this person — net worth, SEC filings, foundation 990s, news coverage, Wikidata. It measures our coverage, not how open the person is. Each further kind of record scores higher, up to eight. Political donation records matched to a person by name alone are not counted: they may belong to someone else with the same name. From October 7, 2026, our own AI-written summary and the profile photo are not counted either — neither is a public record — so grades that leaned on them moved down that day.
Data: SEC EDGAR, ProPublica 990s, GDELT / NewsAPI, Wikidata
Formula (v2): Giving score = 65% x Philanthropy + 35% x Data coverage
Scored on 10/16/2026 on a 0–100 scale. The score uses only the signals we have populated data for. Goal Impact, Controversy, and Community Approval are deferred until that data exists — Phase 1 goal adoption, controversy detection, and community votes respectively.
All data is sourced from public records. Each section links to its original source.