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Asian Cultural Council Inc

The asian cultural council ("acc") deepens international dialogue, understanding, and respect through cultural exchange activities in asia and the united states to create a more harmonious and peaceful world.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$49k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$786kInternational$120kSocial Science$15kPhilanthropy$9kEducation$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $190,455, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,502,013 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,311,558 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.
$35,875
Median grant
3
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$49,000
TRACING PATTERNS FOUNDATION$48,180
WILD PROJECTS$35,875
MONTEZ PRESS ARTS$21,500
USJAPAN CULTURAL TRADE NETWORK$20,000
CROSSING BORDERS MUSIC COLLECTIVE$15,900
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COLLABORATIVE CATALOGING JAPAN: $29k → 22%SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 8%TRACING PATTERNS FOUNDATION: $48k → 9%WILD PROJECTS: $36k → 10%ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES: $15k → 10%THE SAVONG FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%EAST - WEST DIALOGUE: $42k → 17%INTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM: $53k → 20%GITAMEIT FRIENDS USA: $17k → 14%ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES INC: $15k → 14%ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $9k → 21%AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL: $35k → 11%LIJIANG STUDIO FOUNDATION: $38k → 14%HYDE PARK ART CENTER: $31k → 14%SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION: $10k → 8%ASIAN ART MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCISCO: $35k → 10%THE SAVONG FOUNDATION: $9k → 11%INTA INC: $35k → 17%TRIANGLE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $24k → 20%GITAMEIT FRIENDS USA: $15k → 14%AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL: $11k → 11%CORE OF CULTURE DANCE PRESERVATION NFP: $10k → 14%CHINESE CULTURE FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $20k → 10%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $8k → 17%NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $20k → 20%SHAFIK GABR FOUNDATION: $84k → 14%AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL: $75k → 11%CROSSING BORDERS MUSIC COLLECTIVE: $16k → 14%USJAPAN CULTURAL TRADE NETWORK: $20k → 10%NYS SKIRBALL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $7k → 17%TRIANGLE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $8k → 20%SHAFIK GABR FOUNDATION: $36k → 14%MOVEMENT RESEARCH: $8k → 17%WCV INC: $10k → 20%MONTEZ PRESS ARTS: $22k → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $49k → 17%THE WOOSTER GROUP: $15k → 17%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

IL
MI
NY
PA
RI
CA
NC
DC

Grants abroad, by region: $1.0M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $10k to organizations and $1.0M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$1.0M · 97% · 1 grant · 54 people

Stated purpose: PASS-THROUGH FUNDS · GENERAL SUPPORT - ASIAN ARTS

South Asia$31k · 3% · 3 people

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT - ASIAN ARTS

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of Asian Cultural Council Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 23%.

Asian Cultural Council Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 22% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$393k · 8 repeat orgs$587k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
15

Total granted

$393k
$397k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+32%

Still filing today

75%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $121k · revenue +9%
  • SG
    SHAFIK GABR FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $120k · revenue +16%
  • TA
    Triangle Arts Association Limited
    2× · 2019–2023 · $31k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • IS
    INTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $53k · revenue -11%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $43k
  • AC
    ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $42k · revenue +188%
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
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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4
International Contemporary Art Foundatio
Arts & Culture
5
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
6
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
7
International Cultural Arts Network
Arts & Culture
8
Apex Art Curatorial Program Inc

Apex Art Curatorial Program is a resolutely noncommercial visual art exhibition space which provides curators and artists with a venue dedicated to ideas that are often too provocative or too small in scope for display elsewhere. Apex Art…

Arts & Culture
9
Think Global Arts Foundation
International
10
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
11
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture
12
Artnoir Inc

ARTNOIR is a global collective and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color from around the world while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries.…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tracing Patterns Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 29 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $120,800 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INCINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC: $53,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INCAmerican Museum of Natural History: $49,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryTracing Patterns Foundation: $48,180 · Arts & CultureTracing Patterns FoundationWILD PROJECTS: $35,875 · Arts & CultureWILD PROJECTSINTA INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureINTA INCASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $35,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCOTriangle Arts Association Limited: $31,100 · Arts & CultureTriangle Arts Association LimitedHYDE PARK ART CENTER: $31,000 · Arts & CultureHYDE PARK ART CENTERMONTEZ PRESS ARTS INC: $21,500 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCHINESE CULTURE FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $19,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $57,900 · Arts & Culture+5 moreSHAFIK GABR FOUNDATION: $119,700 · OtherSHAFIK GABR FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $42,626 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGITAMEIT FRIENDS USA: $32,219 · OtherGITAMEIT FRIENDS USAAssociation for Asian Studies Inc: $30,000 · OtherAssociation for Asian Studies…US JAPAN CULTURAL TRADE NETWORK INC: $20,000 · OtherUS JAPAN CULTURAL TRADE NETWO…CORE OF CULTURE DANCE PRESERVATION: $10,000 · OtherASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC: $41,806 · InternationalCOLLABORATIVE CATALOGING JAPAN: $28,700 · InternationalTHE LIJIANG STUDIO FOUNDATION: $38,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAVONG FOUNDATION: $24,000 · PhilanthropyNew York University: $15,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$577,855Other$254,545International$70,506Philanthropy$62,000Education$15,000

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 budgetAMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $120,800 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC: $53,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $49,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTracing Patterns Foundation: $48,180 over 1y, 18% of budgetASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC: $41,806 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE LIJIANG STUDIO FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetWILD PROJECTS: $35,875 over 1y, 13% of budgetINTA INC: $35,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTriangle Arts Association Limited: $31,100 over 2y, 15% of budgetHYDE PARK ART CENTER: $31,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAssociation for Asian Studies Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOLLABORATIVE CATALOGING JAPAN: $28,700 over 1y, 35% of budgetMONTEZ PRESS ARTS INC: $21,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHINESE CULTURE FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $19,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCROSSING BORDERS MUSIC COLLECTIVE: $15,900 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE WOOSTER GROUP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNew York University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWCV INC: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOVEMENT RESEARCH INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

The Andy Warhol Found…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts IncNY17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Cultural Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Asian Cultural Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report 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 29 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.0M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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