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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 FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $788k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$150,000
ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$100,000
SHE WHO HAS NO MASTERS$76,000
CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND$60,000
CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (CADE)$51,000
Individual grant recipient$51,000
NIKKEI FOR CIVIL RIGHTS & REDRESS$50,000
SAMOAN SOLUTIONS$50,000
PILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN$50,000
VIET RAINBOW OF ORANGE COUNTY$50,000
JAKARA MOVEMENT$50,000
CHINESE FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION$50,000
PEAK$15,000
OHIO VOICE$10,000
INDIANA DEMOCRACY COLLECTIVE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $780k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE URBAN VILLAGE: $51k → 14%SAMOAN SOLUTIONS: $50k → 7%JAKARA MOVEMENT: $100k → 19%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - ATLANTA: $76k → 9%UTOPIA (UNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS ALLIANCE): $50k → 9%DESI RAINBOW PARENTS & ALLIES INC: $51k → 8%MN8: $26k → 14%VIET RAINBOW OF ORANGE COUNTY: $50k → 10%JAKARA MOVEMENT: $50k → 19%SAMOAN SOLUTIONS: $100k → 7%JAKARA MOVEMENT: $10k → 19%VIETNAMESE RAINBOW OF ORANGE COUNTY: $100k → 10%PL-CUT FRUIT COLLECTIVE: $26k → 10%GOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $40k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
NJ
CA
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 11 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
36

Total granted

$1.7M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+21%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $358k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHealthEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $460k · revenue +78%
  • CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $169k · revenue +26%
  • SS
    Samoan Solutions
    2× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +48% · 87% of their budget

Funded once

  • KC
    KUTTURAN CHAMORU FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +182% · 81% of their budget
  • AR
    API RISE
    one grant, 2023 · $101k
  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S POLITICAL INITIATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +44% · 34% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
2
Alliance for Asian American Justice Inc

Coordinate pro bono legal aid for victims of anti-Asian violence.

Civil Rights
3
National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association

Advocacy group mandated to mental health and well being of Asian American, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.

Health
4
Pacific Asian American Women Bay Area Coalition

Represent interests of Asian-Pacific Island Women.

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5
Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation

APIAHIP is the only national organization dedicated to protecting historic places and cultural resources significant to Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

Arts & Culture
6
Asian Pacific Islander Capitol Assn

The Asian Pacific Islander Capitol Association (APICA) is a non-partisan, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization comprised of legislative staffers, advocates, and other API professionals based in the State Capitol community of Sacramento,…

Community Improvement
7
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc

The mission of asian americans advancing justice-aajc (aajc) is to advance civil and human rights for asian americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all.

Civil Rights
8
APIs Mobilize

APIs Mobilize seeks to cultivate greater participation of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in public service through educational opportunities.

Youth Development
9
Association of Asian American Investment Managers

Founded in the Year 2006, the Association of Asian American Investment Managers AAAIM is a national trade association dedicated to the advance of AAPIs Asian Americans & Pacific-Islanders in the asset management industry. AAAIM supports…

Community Improvement
10
Asians for Collective Action

Asians for Collective Action (ACA) harnesses the strenghts of Asians and Asian Americans to drive systemic change to create a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.

Public Benefit
11
East Coast Asian American Student Union Inc

The East Coast Asian American Student Union's mission is to inspire, educate, and empower those interested in Asian, Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Pacific Islander American (API/A) issues. Run solely by volunteers, ECAASU's…

Civil Rights
12
Studio Atao
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Purple Maia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Robert Gumbiner Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 54 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
33/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $460,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERSPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $150,000 · Community ImprovementPILIPINO WORKERS CENTE…SAMOAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $100,000 · Community ImprovementSAMOAN COMMUNITY DEVEL…ANAMATANGI POLYNESIAN VOICES: $100,000 · Community ImprovementANAMATANGI POLYNESIAN …CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC: $51,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR AGRICULTURA…JAKARA MOVEMENT: $160,000 · Human ServicesJAKARA MOVEMENTSamoan Solutions: $150,000 · Human ServicesSamoan SolutionsViet Rainbow of Orange County: $150,000 · Human ServicesViet Rainbow of Oran…ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC: $76,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICANS ADVA…DESI RAINBOW PARENTS & ALLIES: $51,000 · Human ServicesDESI RAINBOW PARENTS…THE URBAN VILLAGE INC: $51,000 · Human ServicesTHE URBAN VILLAGE IN…UNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA: $50,000 · Human ServicesUNITED TERRITORIES O…GOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesPOSSIBILITY LABS: $26,000 · Human ServicesMN8: $26,000 · Human ServicesKUTTURAN CHAMORU FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Arts & CultureKUTTURAN CHAMORU…TOFA of Sacramento Incorporated: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTOFA of Sacramen…ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $76,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN AMERICAN J…SHE WHO HAS NO MASTERS: $76,000 · Arts & CultureSHE WHO HAS NO M…Austin Asian American Film Festival: $75,000 · Arts & CultureAustin Asian Ame…Chinese for Affirmative Action: $185,000 · Civil RightsChinese for Aff…Every Voice Texas dba Asian Texans for Justice: $111,000 · Civil RightsEvery Voice Tex…ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S POLITICAL INITIATIVE INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICAN …Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote: $75,000 · Civil RightsAsian & Pacific…CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $60,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPO…CENTER FOR ASIAN AMERICANS UNITED FOR SELF-EMPOWERMENT INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR ASIA…NORTH CAROLINA ASIAN AMERICANS TOGETHER: $25,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $10,000 · Civil RightsNIKKEI FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND REDRESS: $150,000 · OtherNIKKEI FOR CIVIL RIGH…YOUNG SERVING ALL MANKIND OUR ALOFA SAMOA: $100,000 · OtherYOUNG SERVING ALL MAN…CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $51,000 · OtherCENTER FOR TRANSFORMA…Individual grant recipient: $51,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…API RISE: $101,000 · OtherAPI RISEAsian Law Caucus: $50,000 · OtherAsian Law CaucusRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT: $51,000 · OtherRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SER…KUA AINA ULU AUAMO: $50,000 · OtherKUA AINA ULU AUAMO+10 more: $235,000 · Other+10 moreCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $169,000 · HealthCHINESE PRO…Taulama For Tongans: $100,000 · HealthTaulama For…PACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $100,000 · HealthPACIFIC ISL…Asian Mental Health Collective Inc: $76,000 · HealthAsian Menta…MARSHALLESE YOUTH OF ORANGE COUNTY: $100,000 · EducationASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $100,000 · EducationMOCKINGBIRD INCUBATOR: $41,000 · EducationHAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK: $10,000 · Education
Community Improvement$861,000Human Services$780,000Arts & Culture$627,000Civil Rights$616,000Other$839,000Health$445,000Education$251,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $460,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKUTTURAN CHAMORU FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 81% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $185,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $169,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJAKARA MOVEMENT: $160,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSamoan Solutions: $150,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetNIKKEI FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND REDRESS: $150,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $150,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetViet Rainbow of Orange County: $150,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetEvery Voice Texas dba Asian Texans for Justice: $111,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S POLITICAL INITIATIVE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetSAMOAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTaulama For Tongans: $100,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetMARSHALLESE YOUTH OF ORANGE COUNTY: $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetPACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $100,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetANAMATANGI POLYNESIAN VOICES: $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetAsian Mental Health Collective Inc: $76,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $76,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC: $76,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSHE WHO HAS NO MASTERS: $76,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetAustin Asian American Film Festival: $75,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetAsian & Pacific Islander American Vote: $75,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $60,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDESI RAINBOW PARENTS & ALLIES: $51,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT: $51,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $51,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE URBAN VILLAGE INC: $51,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC: $51,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetAsian Law Caucus: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR ASIAN AMERICANS UNITED FOR SELF-EMPOWERMENT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetKUA AINA ULU AUAMO: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetUNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMOCKINGBIRD INCUBATOR: $41,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetGOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSEAD PROJECT: $26,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTransplanting Traditions Community Farm: $26,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetROBERT GUMBINER FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPOSSIBILITY LABS: $26,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPURPLE MAIA FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMN8: $26,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFULCRUM ARTS: $26,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ASIAN AMERICANS TOGETHER: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE LEGAL CLINIC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOHIO VOICE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINDIANA DEMOCRACY COLLECTIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

GofundmeorgAmalgamated Charitabl…The California Wellne…New Venture FundAsian Americans Advan…Community PartnersTides FoundationAsian Law CaucusAsian Pacific Communi…Silicon Valley Commun…The California Endowm…Wallace H Coulter Tru…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Asian American Futures funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Asian American Futures. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Asian American Futures?

    Find your warmest path to Asian American Futures through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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