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Asian American Resource Workshop Inc

Community organizing, leadership development, and community building for pan-asian communities in greater boston.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$72kHousing & Shelter$60kCivil Rights$60kCrime & Legal$50kCommunity Improvement$50kEducation$11kPublic Benefit$5k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $120,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $140,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND$20,000
ASIAN OUTREACH CENTER AT GBLS$20,000
INSTITUTE FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES (UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS)$20,000
CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION$10,000
ASIAN TASK FORCE AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE$10,000
BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$10,000
CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOWELL INC$10,000
ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
VIETNAMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT INC$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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $20k → 8%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $10k → 8%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $20k → 16%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CTR: $12k → 16%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP: $40k → 16%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.
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$162k · 5 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$162k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+54%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’22’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalHealthEducationOther
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

  • BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC
    3× · 2018–2025 · $42k · revenue +74%
  • VIETNAMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +60%
  • CM
    Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +54%
  • CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • NELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +76%
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
Asian Law Caucus

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…

Crime & Legal
3
Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc

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…

Civil Rights
4
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
5
Asian American Civic Association Inc

Aaca's mission is to empower low-income individuals and families by providing education, guidance, resources, and support. our goal is to help them achieve economic stability and mobility, enabling them to build wealth and secure a strong…

Human Services
6
Chinese Mutual Aid Association

Proudly founded by ethnic chinese refugees, chinese mutual aid association (cmaa) is led by many prominent individuals from the asian american community. our purpose is to serve the needs, promote the interests, and enhance the well-being…

Human Services
7
Alliance for Asian American Justice Inc

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

Civil Rights
8
Vietnamese American Cultural Alliance
Arts & Culture
9
Chinatown Community Land Trust Inc

The chinatown community land trust (chinatown clt) works to stabilize the future of chinatown as a neighborhood for working class families and a regional hub for the chinese community. we work for community control of the land, development…

Arts & Culture
10
Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center

To promote the general welfare and independence of asian elders via a network of culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate programs and services.

Human Services
11
National Association of Asian American Professionals Boston Inc

NAAAP Boston is a non-profit, 501(c)(3), all-volunteer, Pan-Asian American professional organization that promotes the career advancement andleadership development of Asian American professionals in all fields through networking, Asian…

Environment
12
Chinese American Womens Benevolent Association
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $42,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INCASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INCCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesCambodian Mutual Assistance Association o…GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC: $20,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVIC…ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND: $20,000 · OtherASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENS…UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · OtherCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIA…Individual grant recipient: $4,992 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVIETNAMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterVIETNAMESE AMERICAN IN…ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELO…ASIAN TASK FORCE AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $30,000 · Crime & LegalASIAN TASK …CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · HealthNELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,625 · Education
Human Services$112,000Other$74,992Housing & Shelter$60,000Crime & Legal$30,000Health$20,000Education$10,625

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $42,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC: $40,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVIETNAMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetASIAN TASK FORCE AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,625 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Barr FoundationBoston Foundation IncFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Barr FoundationMA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Barr Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Resource Workshop Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Asian American Resource Workshop Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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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Find your warmest path to Asian American Resource Workshop Inc 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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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