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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 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$4.6MCrime & Legal$1.1MHuman Services$1.0MArts & Culture$858kCommunity Improvement$612kHealth$284kHousing & Shelter$211kPublic Benefit$195kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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 - Atlanta$241,800
Asian American Advancing Justice - Chicago$241,800
Asian American Advancing Justice - AAJC$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
Asian Community Development Council$125,000
Instituto Lab$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

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 (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 its 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
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

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
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 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
Alliance for Asian American Justice Inc

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

Civil Rights
5
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
6
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
7
Asian Pacific American Legal

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

Crime & Legal
8
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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9
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc

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

Philanthropy
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
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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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California; 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.
04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 79 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/73
Grantees still filing
48/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $241,800 over 1y, 2.7% 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 budgetSTATE POWER FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetONE ARIZONA: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORKS WEST INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% 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 budgetASIAN PACIFIC INSTITUTE ON GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE SIKH COALITION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetOHIO VOICE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetInterfaith Movement for Human Integrity: $40,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFREEDOM INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Transitions: $40,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNarika: $40,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCAIR-FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetADHIKAAR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT SENTINEL INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance Inc dba NQAPIA: $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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 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.

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

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 Law Caucus funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Asian Law Caucus. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
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 79 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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