· Public charity
Aapi Democracy Fund
To elevate the issues impacting asian american and pacific islander (aapi) communities and advance progressive policy change through issue advocacy and electoral campaigns.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k4 grants · $725k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE | $550,000 |
| CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS | $505,000 |
| APEN ACTION | $400,000 |
| NEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY | $325,000 |
| ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER POLITICAL ALLIANCE | $225,000 |
| FAJ ACTION FUND | $200,000 |
| AZ AANHPI ADVOCATES | $200,000 |
| ONE APIA NEVADA | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 8 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Aapi Democracy Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aapi Democracy Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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