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Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote

It is the mission of APIAVote to encourage and promote civic participation of Asian Pacific Islander Americans in the electoral and public processes at the national, state, and local levels.

$373k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$61k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$1.4MPublic Benefit$962kHuman Services$795kCommunity Improvement$693kRecreation & Sports$365kPhilanthropy$271kYouth Development$271kArts & Culture$259kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $323,550, the rows itemized in this filing. The $372,800 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $49,250 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $131k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $161k
$15,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AAPI Montclair Inc$61,050
APANO Communities United Fund$50,000
APIAVote MI$50,000
Ctr Empowered Politics Educ$23,500
Hamkae Center$22,000
SALDEF$21,500
Asian Texans for Justice$16,800
Asian Community Development$15,000
No Carolina Asian Am Together$12,500
OCA Greater Houston$10,000
Orange Co Asian & Pacific Isl$10,000
Instituto Lab$9,100
SEAMAAC Inc$8,500
Access Philanthropy$6,800
CAPI$6,800
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 (FY19–25, $668k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SEAMAAC Inc: $89k → 22%ASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION: $19k → 14%NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $20k → 14%Asian Services in Action: $18k → 13%Asian Counseling and Referral: $45k → 9%NM ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $20k → 14%Freedom Inc: $23k → 10%Chinese American Planning: $18k → 9%SEAMAAC Inc: $41k → 22%ASIAN AMERICAN LEAD: $10k → 14%Asian Amer Advancing Justice: $157k → 9%SEAMAAC Inc: $9k → 22%Asian Amer Advancing Justice: $61k → 9%Instituto Lab: $50k → 11%SEAMAAC INC: $10k → 14%Instituto Lab: $9k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN MAA COALITION INC: $45k → 17%IAPALA: $25k → 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

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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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 36 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
28

Total granted

$4.2M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

83%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • ONE ARIZONA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $350k · revenue +57%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND
    3× · 2022–2025 · $254k · revenue +136%
  • EV
    Every Voice Texas dba Asian Texans for Justice
    4× · 2022–2025 · $236k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICANS RISE
    one grant, 2024 · $700k · 90% of their budget
  • CC
    CROSSROADS CONSULTING
    one grant, 2019 · $94k
  • CC
    CHINESE COMMUNITY FEDERATION IN ATLANTA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $86k · 53% 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
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
Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote

It is the mission of APIAVote to encourage and promote civic participation of Asian Pacific Islander Americans in the electoral and public processes at the national, state, and local levels. APIAVote also aims to educate and inform Asian…

Civil Rights
4
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
5
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc

AAPIP expands and mobilizes resources for AAPI communities to build a more just and equitable society.

Philanthropy
6
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
7
Caaav Voice Inc

CAAAV Voice is a grassroot organization aiming to empower Asian immigrant communities by organizing against gentrification, tenant rights and promote social justice.

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8
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
9
Asian Pacific American Legal

To advance the legal and civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans through direct services, education and advocacy.

Crime & Legal
10
Alliance for Asian American Justice Inc

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

Civil Rights
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote - Michigan; the most unlike its peers is Instituto Lab. 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

58 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. 58 of the 66 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/58
Grantees still filing
30/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASIAN AMERICANS RISE: $700,000 · OtherASIAN AMERICANS RISEORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS OF GREATER HOUSTON: $242,000 · OtherORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS OF GREATER HOUS…Access Philanthropy: $204,000 · OtherAccess PhilanthropyMISSOURI ASIAN AM YOUTH FDN: $120,000 · OtherCROSSROADS CONSULTING: $94,000 · OtherURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $90,500 · OtherSANTA CLARA COUNTY ASIAN LAW ALLIANCE: $85,000 · OtherInstitute for Southern Studies Inc: $145,000 · OtherInstitute for Southern Studies IncASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC: $130,500 · OtherORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER: $110,000 · Other+23 more: $579,050 · Other+23 moreONE ARIZONA: $349,900 · Civil RightsONE ARIZONACENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $253,500 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS…Every Voice Texas dba Asian Texans for Justice: $236,000 · Civil RightsEvery Voice Texas dba Asian T…Sikh American Legal Defense & Education: $150,500 · Civil RightsSikh American Legal Defense &…NATIONAL FEDERATION OF FILIPINO AMERICAN ASSOC: $131,300 · Civil RightsNATIONAL FEDERATION OF FILIPI…ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN VOTE - MICHIGAN: $123,953 · Civil RightsASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AM…Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs - Community Education Foundation: $88,925 · Civil RightsAsian Pacific Islander Americ…CENTER ON CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: $70,000 · Civil Rights+3 more: $78,450 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC: $296,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICANS…SOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC: $193,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST ASIAN…NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $79,900 · Human ServicesNEW MEXICO ASIA…Instituto Lab: $59,100 · Human ServicesInstituto LabASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $45,000 · Human ServicesASIAN COUNSELIN…ASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INC: $37,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM INC: $31,500 · Human Services+3 more: $53,000 · Human Services+3 moreCHINESE COMMUNITY FEDERATION IN ATLANTA INC: $86,000 · Arts & CultureAAPI MONTCLAIR INC: $81,000 · Arts & CulturePHILIPPINE-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureAPI INITIATIVE INC: $57,000 · Arts & CultureAsian America Federation of Florida Inc: $52,000 · Arts & CultureCAPI USA: $204,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $58,000 · InternationalASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $210,000 · Community ImprovementPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $9,000 · Community ImprovementIOWA ASIAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ASIAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONALS INC: $38,000 · EducationASIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education
Other$2,500,050Civil Rights$1,482,528Human Services$794,500Arts & Culture$336,000International$262,000Community Improvement$219,000Education$158,000

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 budgetASIAN AMERICANS RISE: $700,000 over 1y, 90% of budgetONE ARIZONA: $349,900 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC: $296,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $253,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS OF GREATER HOUSTON: $242,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetEvery Voice Texas dba Asian Texans for Justice: $236,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $210,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCAPI USA: $204,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC: $193,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetSikh American Legal Defense & Education: $150,500 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetInstitute for Southern Studies Inc: $145,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetNATIONAL FEDERATION OF FILIPINO AMERICAN ASSOC: $131,300 over 7y, 15% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC: $130,500 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN VOTE - MICHIGAN: $123,953 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER: $110,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetIOWA ASIAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $90,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAsian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs - Community Education Foundation: $88,925 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCHINESE COMMUNITY FEDERATION IN ATLANTA INC: $86,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetSANTA CLARA COUNTY ASIAN LAW ALLIANCE: $85,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAAPI MONTCLAIR INC: $81,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $79,900 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER ON CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: $70,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCenter for Pan Asian Community Services: $68,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPHILIPPINE-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY INC: $60,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetInstituto Lab: $59,100 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $58,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPI INITIATIVE INC: $57,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetAsian America Federation of Florida Inc: $52,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $45,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ASIAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONALS INC: $38,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INC: $37,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS: $35,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetFREEDOM INC: $31,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGround Game Fund: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP AND ADVANCEMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetOHIO VOICE: $22,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsian American Pacific Islanders Coming Together: $20,450 over 1y, 18% of budgetASIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetProgress Michigan Education Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetONEAMERICA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Asian Americans Advan…GofundmeorgNEO Philanthropy IncWallace H Coulter Tru…Wallace H Coulter Fou…Asian & Pacific Islan…Amalgamated Charitabl…New Venture FundTides FoundationAsian Americans Advan…Asian Law CaucusNational Coalition fo…
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc IncDC57.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc · Gofundmeorg · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Wallace H Coulter Trust · Wallace H Coulter Foundation · Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California · Asian Law Caucus · National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development

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 & Pacific Islander American Vote funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Aapi Montclair Inc: 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 66 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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