How much does Asian American Futures give?

Asian American Futures reported 16 grants totaling $840,931 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 25 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.

What does Asian American Futures fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (28%), Community Improvement (19%), Arts & Culture (14%).

Who are Asian American Futures's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Community Partners ($460k), Kutturan Chamoru Foundation ($300k), Chinese for Affirmative Action ($185k).

Does Asian American Futures fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Asian American Futures?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gofundmeorg, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The California Wellness Foundation.

Where is Asian American Futures based?

Asian American Futures is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Asian American Futures

The mission of ASIAN AMERICAN FUTURES is to ensure that asian americans and pacific islanders are seen, heard, empowered, and united.

$841k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 16
Grants FY2024: 25
Organizations funded FY2023: 80%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $150,000
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 25; FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 6
Total assets, FY2024: $1.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 80% of the organizations Asian American Futures funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHealthEducationCrime & LegalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	16	$833k	44%
FY2023	25	$1.6M	80%
FY2022	18	$1.5M	89%
FY2021	11	$519k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Civil Rights$1.2MCommunity Improvement$828kArts & Culture$604kHealth$436kHuman Services$328kEducation$200kScience & Tech$150kPublic Benefit$131kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Community Partners	$460,000	3	0%
Kutturan Chamoru Foundation	$300,000	1	81%
Chinese for Affirmative Action	$185,000	4	1%
Chinese Progressive Association	$169,000	3	1%
Jakara Movement	$160,000	3	2%
Samoan Solutions	$150,000	2	87%
Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress	$150,000	2	58%
Pilipino Workers Center of Southern	$150,000	2	3%
Viet Rainbow of Orange County	$150,000	2	39%
Every Voice Texas dba Asian Texans for Justice	$111,000	2	8%

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All grantees of Asian American Futures by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Community Partners	$460,000	3	0%
Kutturan Chamoru Foundation	$300,000	1	81%
Chinese for Affirmative Action	$185,000	4	1%
Chinese Progressive Association	$169,000	3	1%
Jakara Movement	$160,000	3	2%
Samoan Solutions	$150,000	2	87%
Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress	$150,000	2	58%
Pilipino Workers Center of Southern	$150,000	2	3%
Viet Rainbow of Orange County	$150,000	2	39%
Every Voice Texas dba Asian Texans for Justice	$111,000	2	8%
Api Rise	$101,000	1	n/a
Asian American Women's Political Initiative Inc	$100,000	1	34%
Samoan Community Development Center	$100,000	1	3%
Young Serving All Mankind Our Alofa Samoa	$100,000	1	n/a
Taulama For Tongans	$100,000	1	37%
Marshallese Youth of Orange County	$100,000	1	24%
TOFA of Sacramento Incorporated	$100,000	1	n/a
Asian Pacific American Leadership Institute	$100,000	1	15%
Pacific Islander Health Partnership	$100,000	1	8%
Anamatangi Polynesian Voices	$100,000	1	21%
Asian Mental Health Collective Inc	$76,000	1	13%
Asian American Journalists Association	$76,000	1	3%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc	$76,000	1	1%
She Who Has No Masters	$76,000	1	99%
Austin Asian American Film Festival	$75,000	1	67%
Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote	$75,000	1	3%
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund	$60,000	1	0%
Desi Rainbow Parents & Allies	$51,000	1	27%
Residential Youth Services & Empowerment	$51,000	1	1%
Center for Transformative Action	$51,000	1	2%
The Urban Village Inc	$51,000	1	12%
Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship Inc	$51,000	1	6%
Asian Law Caucus	$50,000	1	0%
Center for Asian Americans United for Self-Empowerment Inc	$50,000	1	6%
Kua Aina Ulu Auamo	$50,000	1	3%
United Territories of Pacific Islanders Washington-Utopia Wa	$50,000	1	2%
Mockingbird Incubator	$41,000	2	21%
Gold House Foundation Inc	$40,000	1	1%
Sead Project	$26,000	1	4%
Transplanting Traditions Community Farm	$26,000	1	5%
Robert Gumbiner Foundation	$26,000	1	2%
Possibility Labs	$26,000	1	0%
Purple Maia Foundation	$26,000	1	1%
Mn8	$26,000	1	3%
Fulcrum Arts	$26,000	1	1%
North Carolina Asian Americans Together	$25,000	1	1%
The Legal Clinic	$25,000	1	4%
Asian Media Access	$25,000	1	n/a
Ma Ka Hana Ka Ike Building Program	$25,000	1	1%
Ohio Voice	$20,000	2	0%
Hawaii Children's Action Network	$10,000	1	1%
Indiana Democracy Collective Inc	$10,000	1	1%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($61k), not named here.

Asian American Futures supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 48.

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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.

GofundmeorgCA37.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gofundmeorg · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The California Wellness Foundation · New Venture Fund · Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc · Community Partners · Tides Foundation · Asian Law Caucus · Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The California Endowment · Wallace H Coulter Trust

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Asian American Futures

How much does Asian American Futures give?: Asian American Futures reported 16 grants totaling $840,931 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 25 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Asian American Futures fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (28%), Community Improvement (19%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are Asian American Futures's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Community Partners ($460k), Kutturan Chamoru Foundation ($300k), Chinese for Affirmative Action ($185k).
Does Asian American Futures fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Asian American Futures?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gofundmeorg, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The California Wellness Foundation.
Where is Asian American Futures based?: Asian American Futures is based in CA.