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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 in the United States.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$242k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$3.5MCivil Rights$2.5MCrime & Legal$748kHousing & Shelter$585kCommunity Improvement$370kArts & Culture$301kSocial Science$252kYouth Development$205kPublic Benefit$195kOther$634k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $2.2M
$125,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Asian American Advancing Justice - Chicago$241,800
Asian American Advancing Justice - AAJC$241,800
Asian American Advancing Justice - Atlanta$241,800
Asian American Advancing Justice - Southern California$241,800
Jubilee Immigration Advocates$211,858
The Fresno Center$211,858
Chinese for Affirmative Action$211,857
Instituto Lab$125,000
Asian Community Development Council$125,000
Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice$100,000
Restore Oakland Inc$84,765
Community Works West Inc$81,708
Mission Action$63,214
Pan Asian Community Alliance$20,000
Council on American-Islamic Relations$17,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Asian American Resource Workshop: $25k → 16%Jubilee Immigration Advocates: $229k → 10%The Fresno Center: $288k → 19%New York Taxi Workers Alliance: $105k → 13%Freedom Inc: $40k → 10%Asian American Advancing Justice - Atlanta: $242k → 9%Burmese Rohingya Community of Georgia: $6k → 14%State Power Fund: $100k → 12%Jubilee Immigration Advocates: $212k → 10%Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans: $40k → 11%The Fresno Center: $212k → 19%Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta: $11k → 9%Council on American-Islamic Relations: $57k → 8%Jubilee Immigration Advocates: $212k → 10%Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans: $7k → 11%The Fresno Center: $212k → 19%Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta: $5k → 9%Cambodian Association of Illinois: $7k → 14%Island Liaison Inc: $10k → 11%Jubilee Immigration Advocates: $173k → 10%The Fresno Center: $187k → 19%Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta: $5k → 9%Instituto Lab: $125k → 11%Jubilee Immigration Advocates: $123k → 10%Asian Youth Center: $10k → 14%The Fresno Center: $133k → 19%Jakara Movement: $40k → 19%Center for Empowering Refugees Inc: $49k → 10%Jakara Movement: $25k → 19%Nuestra Casa De East Palo Alto: $8k → 8%Jakara Movement: $21k → 19%The HANA Center: $10k → 14%Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice: $100k → 10%Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice: $100k → 10%Korean Resource Center: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.6M · 30 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
44

Total granted

$7.6M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+52%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $387k 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
Human ServicesCivil RightsCrime & LegalArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • JI
    Jubilee Immigration Advocates
    5× · 2021–2025 · $949k · revenue +237% · 50% of their budget
  • MA
    MISSION ACTION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $575k · revenue +301%
  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $562k · revenue +560%

Funded once

  • NY
    New York Taxi Workers Alliance
    one grant, 2024 · $105k · revenue 0%
  • SP
    STATE POWER FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +220%
  • CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $80k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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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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
2
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
Asian Pacific American Legal

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

Crime & Legal
7
Alliance for Asian American Justice Inc

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

Civil Rights
8
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc

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

Philanthropy
9
Coalition of Asian American Leaders

The Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) is a network organization of Asian Minnesotan leaders harnessing our collective power to improve the lives of community.

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
12
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund

The asian american legal defense and education fund (aaldef), founded in 1974, is a national organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of asian americans through litigation, advocacy, education, and organizing.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cair-Pennsylvania. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyChristian Missionary Organi…Domestic Violence ServicesCommunity FoundationsImmigrant Worker Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%40%20–35yr11%25%35–55yr13%1%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%43%35–55yr13%1%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/79
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,899

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 79 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/73
Grantees still filing
49/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE FRESNO CENTER — $1,032,738 · Human ServicesTHE FRESNO CENTERJubilee Immigration Advocates — $948,645 · Human ServicesJubilee Immigration AdvocatesASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC — $562,300 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA …COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ — $200,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH J…Instituto Lab — $125,000 · Human Services+16 more — $589,000 · Human Services+16 moreChinese for Affirmative Action — $1,186,968 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative ActionNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC — $506,250 · Civil RightsNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVI…ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC — $241,800 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUST…NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $125,213 · Civil RightsONE ARIZONA — $100,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK — $85,000 · Civil Rights+7 more — $238,725 · Civil Rights+7 moreASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $387,800 · Crime & LegalASIAN AME…RESTORE OAKLAND INC — $227,280 · Crime & LegalRESTORE O…ASIAN AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $95,000 · Crime & LegalASIAN AME…MANFORWARD — $30,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $8,000 · Crime & LegalMISSION ACTION INC — $575,318 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $205,000 · Community ImprovementPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN — $75,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $50,000 · Community ImprovementNarika — $40,000 · Community ImprovementCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS CALIFORNIA — $138,900 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY WORKS WEST INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN PACIFIC INSTITUTE ON GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $12,500 · Arts & CultureASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO — $251,800 · Social ScienceURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $65,000 · OtherURBAN AFFAIR…TCKIDNOW THIRD CULTURE KIDS NAVIGATING OUR WORLDS IN COMM — $50,000 · OtherASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC — $125,000 · OtherASIAN AMERIC…Refugee & Immigrant Transitions — $40,000 · OtherNEO Philanthropy Inc — $155,000 · OtherNEO Philanth…OHIO VOICE — $40,000 · OtherCENTER FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS — $90,000 · OtherCENTER FOR W…Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity — $40,000 · OtherCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — $80,000 · OtherCHINESE PROG…Alliance for Global Justice Corp — $50,000 · OtherAsian Pacific Environmental Network — $51,000 · Other+17 more — $248,000 · Other+17 more
Human Services$3,457,683Civil Rights$2,483,956Crime & Legal$748,080Housing & Shelter$585,318Community Improvement$370,000Arts & Culture$301,400Social Science$251,800Other$1,034,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChinese for Affirmative Action — $1,186,968 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTHE FRESNO CENTER — $1,032,738 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetJubilee Immigration Advocates — $948,645 over 5y, 50% of budgetMISSION ACTION INC — $575,318 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC — $562,300 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC — $506,250 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $387,800 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO — $251,800 over 2y, 11% of budgetRESTORE OAKLAND INC — $227,280 over 2y, 14% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $205,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ — $200,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $155,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS CALIFORNIA — $138,900 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $125,213 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC — $125,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNew York Taxi Workers Alliance — $105,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORKS WEST INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetONE ARIZONA — $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSTATE POWER FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $95,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS — $90,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetJAKARA MOVEMENT — $86,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK — $85,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEvery Voice Texas dba Asian Texans for Justice — $81,225 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — $80,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN — $75,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network — $51,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC INSTITUTE ON GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE SIKH COALITION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS — $48,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS — $47,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetInterfaith Movement for Human Integrity — $40,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNarika — $40,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetFREEDOM INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOHIO VOICE — $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Transitions — $40,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCAIR-FOUNDATION INC — $32,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT SENTINEL INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetADHIKAAR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNational Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance Inc dba NQAPIA — $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSouth Asian Americans Leading Together — $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ASIAN AMERICANS TOGETHER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA — $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budget
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.

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…GofundmeorgNEO Philanthropy IncProteus Fund IncTides FoundationEast Bay Community Fo…Asian Americans Advan…Immigrant Legal Resou…Silicon Valley Commun…Tides CenterThe San Francisco Fou…The California Endowm…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC50.9× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Gofundmeorg · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc · Immigrant Legal Resource Center · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Center · The San Francisco Foundation · The California Endowment

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 Law Caucus 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Asian American Resource Workshop Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
27report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 79 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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