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Asian Arts Initiative
The Asian Arts Initiative is a community-based arts center in philadelphia that engages artists and everyday people to create art that explores the diverse experiences of asian americans, addresses our social context, imagines and affects positive community change.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $65,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $313,021 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $248,021 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 |
|---|---|
| Unity LLC | $35,000 |
| Spark Greatness LLC | $30,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% of your 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.
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian American Writers Workshop Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vox Populi Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 21 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 NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds CHINA RESIDENCIES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Fiji Theater Company Inc dba Ping Chong and Company ↗
- Who funds WING LUKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds NORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds VOX POPULI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds TALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL S FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL INC ↗
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: Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundation · Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girls · The Allen Hilles Fund · Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Gofundmeorg · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey
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 Arts Initiative 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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