· Public charity
Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California
Our mission is to cultivate philanthropists to invest in organizations that empower under-served asian and pacific islanders (api) to prosper by 1) building healthier communities, 2) developing api leaders, 3) creating a stronger api sector, as we believe that our communities are best served by strong nonprofits that are linguistically…
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 67 grants below total $3,231,699 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,276,602 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,044,903 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $769k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STAND WITH ASIAN AMERICANS | $1,008,283 |
| TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION | $219,700 |
| ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND | $172,310 |
| RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $126,575 |
| ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $120,417 |
| FIRST EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF DIAMOND BAR | $110,000 |
| THE HOME OF CHRIST CHURCH | $105,000 |
| CHANDLER SCHOOL | $85,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOCIETY | $80,000 |
| HERALD CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER | $75,000 |
| TAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $66,500 |
| COALITION OF ASIAN PACIFICS IN ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION INC | $60,000 |
| FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| SOMANG SOCIETY | $57,500 |
| GREAT ENLIGHTENMENT BUDDHIST INSTITUTE SOCIETY | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $554k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TCTAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES4× · 2021–2024 · $550k · revenue +47%
- HCHERALD CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $375k · revenue +58%
- TATAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND4× · 2021–2024 · $321k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- HOHOME OF CHRIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $100k
- CCCDA CHARITABLE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $78k
- PSPacific Symphonygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +102%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Providing professional training of Chinese Medicine (TCM), including acupuncture, Chinese herbology, acupressure, Qigong and so on, granting the students Masters degree. Its a three to four years teaching program.
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,…
Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, Inc. is a family of community health centers whose mission is to be the medical home for our patients by providing personalized, quality health care services in a culturally accessible manner.
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…
Founded in the Year 2006, the Association of Asian American Investment Managers AAAIM is a national trade association dedicated to the advance of AAPIs Asian Americans & Pacific-Islanders in the asset management industry. AAAIM supports…
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
The core mission of ASIAN, Inc. is the empowerment of the Asian American Community to achieve social equality by reducing dependency to create and expand access to opportunities in the areas of business development, housing and education.…
Save Cantonese is an international movement that sustains and celebrates Cantonese language and culture. We have three Strategic Aims: a) protect and strengthen educational and research infrastructure for the Cantonese language, b) affirm…
The objectives of the Society of Asian Academic Surgeons shall be to cultivate, nurture and support the advancement of Asians in academic surgery. To achieve these objectives, the Society shall:1. Enhance the personal and professional…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Committee of 100 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
147 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. 147 of the 183 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 STAND WITH ASIAN AMERICANS ↗
- Who funds TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HERALD CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN FUTURES ↗
- Who funds TAIWANESE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF ASIAN PACIFICS IN ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHANDLER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds SOMANG SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ZOE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ASIAN AMERICANS UNITED FOR SELF-EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds STREAM OF PRAISE MUSIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF CHRIST CHRUCH IN LOS ANGELES OVERSEER & SUCCESSORS ↗
- Who funds BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CLUB OF SAN MARINO ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Pacific Symphony ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN TAIWANESE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
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: Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California · Gofundmeorg · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The California Endowment · Cathay Bank Foundation · Orange County's United Way · Sempra Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation
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 Pacific Community Fund of Southern California 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
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.