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Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California

Ajsocal is a social justice organization that protects and strengthens the rights and dignity of asian american and pacific islander (aapi) communities, especially those that are most disadvantaged.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$228k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$5.9MCrime & Legal$1.9MHealth$850kCivil Rights$807kCommunity Improvement$636kEmployment$286kSocial Science$214kHousing & Shelter$174kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 46 grants below total $1,600,907, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,654,528 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $53,621 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $671k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $870k
$20,950
Median grant
14
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES$227,761
BOAT PEOPLE SOS - HOUSTON$143,853
INTL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT$117,720
CASA DE MARYLAND$101,500
SOUTH ASIAN NETWORK$93,361
SAHARA$76,944
CHALDEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$55,035
OPERATION SAMAHAN INC DBA SAMAHAN HEALTH$54,090
PARS EQUALITY CENTER$39,330
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA$39,060
ASIAN PACIFIC HEALTH CARE VENTURE$38,910
ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL$37,860
OCAPICA$35,223
THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY$30,000
UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY$30,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $69k → 14%THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY: $32k → 10%THE FRESNO CENTER: $54k → 19%BOAT PEOPLE SOS - HOUSTON: $211k → 16%INTL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $153k → 21%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION: $42k → 10%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE-ATLANTA: $114k → 9%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $48k → 14%THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY: $30k → 10%THE FRESNO CENTER: $39k → 19%BOAT PEOPLE SOS - HOUSTON: $144k → 16%INTL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $118k → 21%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE-ATLANTA: $83k → 9%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $39k → 14%BOAT PEOPLE SOS - HOUSTON: $120k → 16%INTL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $117k → 21%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE-ATLANTA: $72k → 9%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $32k → 14%BOAT PEOPLE SOS - HOUSTON: $107k → 16%INTL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $106k → 21%BOAT PEOPLE SOS - HOUSTON: $70k → 16%INTL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $94k → 21%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AKRON: $38k → 13%BOAT PEOPLE SOS - HOUSTON: $65k → 16%INTL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $66k → 21%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE: $78k → 9%KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICE CENTER: $42k → 14%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE: $43k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE: $39k → 9%KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICE CENTER: $37k → 14%KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICE CENTER: $35k → 14%UTOPIA SEA: $55k → 9%KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICE CENTER: $31k → 14%ASIAN YOUTH CENTER: $40k → 14%SOUTH ASIAN NETWORK: $93k → 14%SOUTH ASIAN NETWORK: $82k → 14%SAHARA: $77k → 14%SAHARA: $77k → 14%SAHARA: $75k → 14%SAHARA: $68k → 14%SAHARA: $65k → 14%SAHARA: $50k → 14%SOUTH ASIAN NETWORK: $41k → 14%SOUTH ASIAN NETWORK: $41k → 14%CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $32k → 14%CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $31k → 14%CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $31k → 14%THAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $57k → 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
MI
NY
NV
OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.8M · 64 repeat orgs$863k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
27

Total granted

$9.8M
$821k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+35%

Still filing today

95%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureCrime & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • KOREAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $807k · revenue +310%
  • BP
    BOAT PEOPLE SOS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $717k · revenue +32%
  • KC
    KOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $716k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO
    one grant, 2021 · $114k · revenue -20%
  • SC
    SHALOM CENTER FOR TREE OF LIFE
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -31%
  • TC
    THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $77k · revenue -46%
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
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
3
Aapi Equity Alliance

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,…

Human Services
4
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
5
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center Searac

Searac is a national civil rights organization that builds power with diverse communities from cambodia, laos, and vietnam to create a socially just and equitable society. as representatives of the largest refugee community ever resettled…

International
6
Asian Inc

The core mission of ASIAN, Inc. is the empowerment of the Asian American Community to achieve social equality by reducing dependency to create and expand access to opportunities in the areas of business development, housing and education.…

Community Improvement
7
Asian American Center of Santa Clara

The mission of Asian American Community Center of Santa Clara County (AASC) is to provide health, human, and economic development services to low income families and individuals to enable them to become actively participating citizens in…

Human Services
8
The Asian-American Senior Citizen Association
Human Services
9
Alliance for Asian American Justice Inc

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

Civil Rights
10
Center for Asian Americans United for Self-Empowerment Inc

Center for Asian Americans United for Self Empowerment CAUSE is a 501c3 nonprofit, nonpartisan, community-based organization with a mission to advance the political and civic empowerment of the Asian Pacific American APA community through…

Civil Rights
11
The Asian Americans for Community Involvement of Santa Clara County Inc

To strengthen the resilience and hope of our diverse community members by improving their health and well-being.

Health
12
Asian-American National Committee Inc

Various national educational programs and services.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for the Pacific-Asian Family Inc; the most unlike its peers is The California Endowment. 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

86 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. 86 of the 96 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/86
Grantees still filing
68/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $716,763 · Human ServicesBOAT PEOPLE SOS INCTHE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT INC: $653,040 · Human ServicesTHE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN …South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency: $410,607 · Human ServicesSouth Asian Helpline and Referral AgencySOUTH ASIAN NETWORK INC: $286,010 · Human ServicesSOUTH ASIAN NETWORK INCASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC: $268,668 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA IN…INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $213,380 · Human ServicesASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $208,405 · Human ServicesKOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $196,797 · Human ServicesTHE FRESNO CENTER: $194,332 · Human ServicesCAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $154,285 · Human Services+20 more: $1,015,842 · Human Services+20 moreKOREAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY: $806,758 · OtherKOREAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE…CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER: $280,023 · OtherCHINATOWN SERVICE CENTERASIAN PACIFIC HEALTH CARE VENTURE INC: $197,800 · OtherASIAN PACIFIC HEALTH CARE VENT…Center for Pan Asian Community Services: $176,436 · OtherCenter for Pan Asian Community…SOUTHLAND INTEGRATED SERVICES INC: $144,075 · OtherCASA INC: $110,425 · OtherONEAMERICA: $103,345 · OtherASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO: $113,626 · Other+28 more: $1,049,503 · Other+28 moreKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $716,051 · HealthKOREAN COMMUNIT…CLINICA MSR OSCAR A ROMERO: $209,475 · HealthCLINICA MSR OSC…OPERATION SAMAHAN INC: $194,247 · HealthOPERATION SAMAH…ORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER: $169,229 · HealthORANGE COUNTY A…SHALOM CENTER FOR TREE OF LIFE: $100,000 · HealthSHALOM CENTER F…ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $83,310 · HealthASIAN RESOURCES…+4 more: $69,425 · HealthASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $219,376 · Civil RightsNAKASEC ACTION FUND: $173,325 · Civil RightsPARS EQUALITY CENTER: $137,146 · Civil RightsKOREAN AMERICAN COALITION: $60,000 · Civil RightsFilipino Migrant Center: $40,000 · Civil RightsMOONBOW QT: $40,000 · Civil RightsNORTH CAROLINA ASIAN AMERICANS TOGETHER: $26,600 · Civil Rights+2 more: $19,875 · Civil RightsTHE CHALDEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $325,710 · Crime & LegalAsian Law Caucus: $133,626 · Crime & LegalAsian Pacific American Legal: $118,125 · Crime & LegalMichigan Advocacy Program: $97,430 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $287,502 · Community ImprovementASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $156,600 · Community ImprovementPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $90,000 · Community ImprovementKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $40,000 · Community ImprovementLTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $75,970 · Housing & ShelterCENTER FOR THE PACIFIC-ASIAN FAMILY INC: $49,724 · Housing & ShelterHEALTHY HOMES COALITION OF WEST MICHIGAN INC: $38,560 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$4,318,129Other$2,981,991Health$1,541,737Civil Rights$716,322Crime & Legal$674,891Community Improvement$574,102Housing & Shelter$164,254

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 budgetKOREAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY: $806,758 over 6y, 10% of budgetBOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $716,763 over 6y, 17% of budgetKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $716,051 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT INC: $653,040 over 6y, 20% of budgetSouth Asian Helpline and Referral Agency: $410,607 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetTHE CHALDEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $325,710 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $287,502 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN NETWORK INC: $286,010 over 6y, 16% of budgetCHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER: $280,023 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC: $268,668 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $219,376 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $213,380 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCLINICA MSR OSCAR A ROMERO: $209,475 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $208,405 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC HEALTH CARE VENTURE INC: $197,800 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $196,797 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FRESNO CENTER: $194,332 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetOPERATION SAMAHAN INC: $194,247 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Pan Asian Community Services: $176,436 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNAKASEC ACTION FUND: $173,325 over 5y, 16% of budgetORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER: $169,229 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $156,600 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $154,285 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHLAND INTEGRATED SERVICES INC: $144,075 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPARS EQUALITY CENTER: $137,146 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetAsian Law Caucus: $133,626 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CAMBODIAN FAMILY: $119,465 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetAsian Pacific American Legal: $118,125 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO: $113,626 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCASA INC: $110,425 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $105,860 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AKRON INC: $105,280 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION: $103,500 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetONEAMERICA: $103,345 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY INC: $102,015 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetSHALOM CENTER FOR TREE OF LIFE: $100,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN DRUG ABUSE PROGRAM INC: $97,976 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMichigan Advocacy Program: $97,430 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetASIAN YOUTH CENTER: $97,250 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS OF GREATER HOUSTON: $91,469 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $90,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetASIAN RESOURCES INC: $83,310 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT: $76,840 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $75,970 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $63,752 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN COALITION: $60,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES: $59,168 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC: $58,640 over 5y, 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.

GofundmeorgImmigrant Legal Resou…Asian Pacific Communi…National Coalition fo…The California Endowm…Asian Americans Advan…California Community …Weingart FoundationThe California Wellne…NEO Philanthropy IncAsian Resources IncCalifornia Physicians…
GofundmeorgCA58.4× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gofundmeorg · Immigrant Legal Resource Center · Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California · National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development · The California Endowment · Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Asian Resources Inc · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn

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 Americans Advancing Justice Southern California funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
43report 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.

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 96 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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