Ida Kao provides administrative support to nine grantmaking clients. These organizations focus on enacting change in areas such as education, housing, and food security in the Greater Boston area and internationally.

Ida has a Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she served as Treasurer of the student activity funding committee and published the campus biweekly magazine. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time in nature, writing, and playing indie video games with friends.