· Public charity
Asian American Federation Inc
Established in 1989, the asian american federation (aaf) is the strongest leadership organization in new york serving 1.5 million asian new yorkers.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $458k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $3.2M
- $250k+18 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES CENTER TOTAL | $1,068,227 |
| KOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC TOTAL | $1,036,148 |
| HAMILTON MADISON HOUSE INC TOTAL | $993,413 |
| BROOKLYN CHINESE-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC TOTAL | $942,442 |
| HOMECREST COMMUNITY SERVICES INC TOTAL | $929,000 |
| COUNCIL OF PEOPLES ORGANIZATION INC TOTAL | $867,650 |
| ASIAN AMERICANS FOR EQUALITY INC TOTAL | $614,000 |
| COMMUNITIES RESIST INC TOTAL | $558,922 |
| ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NY INC TOTAL | $418,917 |
| ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER TOTAL | $411,900 |
| THE SIKH COALITION INC TOTAL | $393,337 |
| IMMIGRANT SOCIAL SERVICES INC TOTAL | $389,722 |
| NONVIOLENT PEACEFORCE TOTAL | $388,028 |
| SAPNA NYC INC TOTAL | $361,941 |
| THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF QUEENS TOTAL | $358,709 |
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 (FY18–25, $19.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
72 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $817k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HHHAMILTON-MADISON HOUSE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +96%
- KCKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC8× · 2018–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +214%
- COCOUNCIL OF PEOPLES ORGANIZATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +145%
Funded once
- AAASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INCone grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue -13% · 83% of their budget
- OBOCEAN BAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +169%
- AIATLED INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $29k · revenue +41%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
CAAAV Voice is a grassroot organization aiming to empower Asian immigrant communities by organizing against gentrification, tenant rights and promote social justice.
CAAAV was founded in 1986 as one of the first groups in the United States to respond to racially motivated violence against Asians. Since then, CAAAV has broaden its focus to address a wide array of needs and challenges facing the Asian…
Coordinate pro bono legal aid for victims of anti-Asian violence.
It is dedicated to deepening the understanding and appreciation of chinese culture in the global and local communities. it fulfills its mission by offering professional classes, workshops, and performances while nurturing creative new…
The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…
Social services and education for the chinatown, nyc community.
Various national educational programs and services.
How this is measured
115 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 115 of the 124 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.
- Who funds HAMILTON-MADISON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Korean American Family Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF PEOPLES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN CHINESE-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS FOR EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds Homecrest Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds SAPNA NYC INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF QUEENS ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN MANPOWER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Nonviolent Peaceforce ↗
- Who funds THE SIKH COALITION ↗
- Who funds INDIA HOME INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF MEDICAL & PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES INC DBA RaisingHealth Partners ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ASIAN WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds United Chinese Association Of Brooklyn Inc ↗
- Who funds Communities Resist Inc ↗
- Who funds SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds ADHIKAAR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds REFUGEES HELPING REFUGEES INC ↗
- Who funds LAAL NYC ↗
- Who funds MINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds UA3 INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIDTOWN UTICA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds The Japanese American Association of New York Inc ↗
- Who funds CHHAYA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DAMAYAN MIGRANT WORKERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Karen Society of Buffalo Inc ↗
- Who funds Mekong Inc ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN CIVIC EMPOWERMENT FOR COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds CHARLES B WANG COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SIKHS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Asian American Coalition for Children and Families Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · New York Immigration Coalition Inc · New York Foundation · The Asian American Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Gofundmeorg · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Minkwon Center for Community Action Inc · The Ong Family Foundation Co Law Office · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Research Foundation of the City University of New York
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Asian American Federation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Asian American Federation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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