· Public charity
Asian American Resource Workshop Inc
Community organizing, leadership development, and community building for pan-asian communities in greater boston.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $120,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $140,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTITUTE FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES (UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS) | $20,000 |
| ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND | $20,000 |
| ASIAN OUTREACH CENTER AT GBLS | $20,000 |
| ASIAN TASK FORCE AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $10,000 |
| BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $10,000 |
| CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOWELL INC | $10,000 |
| VIETNAMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT INC | $10,000 |
| ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC3× · 2018–2025 · $42k · revenue +74%
VIETNAMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT INC2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue 0%
ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue 0%
Funded once
ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +54%
CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
NELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +76%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Coordinate pro bono legal aid for victims of anti-Asian violence.
CAA is a community-based civil rights organization that conducts community service, policy advocacy, and movement building activities.
The Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) is a network organization of Asian Minnesotan leaders harnessing our collective power to improve the lives of community.
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.
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…
Aapi equity alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations that advocates for the rights and needs of the asian and pacific islander (api) community in the greater los angeles area, with particular focus on low-income, immigrant,…
The Vietnamese American Roundtable (VAR) envisions a strong and unified Vietnamese American community that works towards improving our quality of life. To this end, VAR focuses our mission to organize, advocate, and educate our community.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc ↗
- Who funds ASIAN TASK FORCE AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Barr Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Asian American Resource Workshop Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Inc — 32% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Asian Community Development Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Asian American Resource Workshop Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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