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Asian Pacific Environmental Network

APEN builds immigrant and refugee power for a just transition with local roots and statewide impact so all people can live, work, learn, play and thrive in a clean and healthy environment.

$232k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$36k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$1.6MCivil Rights$695kHousing & Shelter$600kEmployment$375kCommunity Improvement$361kCrime & Legal$263kYouth Development$160kHealth$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Comm for a Better Environment$35,900
Black Organizing Project$30,000
SCOPE$30,000
Jobs With Justice SF Bay Area$25,000
CHIRLA$25,000
Black Women for Wellness$20,000
Tides Foundation$15,000
LA Alliance for a New Economy$10,000
Comite Civico del Valle Inc$10,000
CA Enviro Justice Alliance$10,000
Phys Social Responsibility$10,000
CURYJ$10,000
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 (FY20–24, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Affect Real Change: $6k → 24%Black Organizing Project: $30k → 10%ABLE Community Development: $5k → 9%Black Organizing Project: $30k → 10%Filipino Advocates forJustice: $5k → 10%Trybe Inc: $6k → 10%SCOPE: $40k → 14%Ctr Empowering Refugees&Immig: $5k → 10%SCOPE: $33k → 14%SCOPE: $30k → 14%CURYJ: $10k → 10%CURYJ: $6k → 10%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 14% of Asian Pacific Environmental Network’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 75%.

Asian Pacific Environmental Networklessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% 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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 19 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
21

Total granted

$2.4M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-4%

Still filing today

100%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • CF
    COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT
    4× · 2019–2024 · $523k · revenue +159%
  • LC
    LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY
    2× · 2019–2022 · $305k · revenue +97%
  • CF
    COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $98k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • OC
    Oakland Community Land Trust
    one grant, 2023 · $600k · revenue -24%
  • TI
    THE IVYWOOD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +26% · 69% of their budget
  • NI
    NATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $263k · revenue -95% · 26% of their budget
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
Central California Environmental Justice Network

To uplift low-income communities of color in the San Joaquin Valley by ensuring access to clean air, water, land, and food sovereignty.

Environment
2
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
3
California Center for Movement Legal Services

The California Center for Movement Legal Services (Movement Legal) provides legal services in the pursuit of improving the lives of California's traditionally underserved residents, carrying out legal work that fosters community led policy…

Crime & Legal
4
Asian Pacific Environmental Network

APEN builds immigrant and refugee power for a just transition with local roots and statewide impact so all people can live, work, learn, play and thrive in a clean and healthy environment.

Environment
5
California Environmental Voters

To increase public awareness of elected officials' performances on environmental issues, to influence decisions of public officials on environmental legislation and policy, and to engage in related social welfare activities to promote and…

Civil Rights
6
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
7
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
8
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action

The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action is a grassroots, member-led, statewide community organization working with more than 16,000 members in six counties across California, dedicated to raising the voices of…

Human Services
9
Equal Justice Society

The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…

Civil Rights
10
Inner City Law Center

In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.

Crime & Legal
11
Coalition for Responsible and Equitable Economic Development Los Angeles

To ensure that the workers in the construction industry in Los Angeles are highly trained and professional. The organization seeks the creation of good jobs, safety for workers, health care and a secure retirement for working families.

Community Improvement
12
North Bay Jobs with Justice

North Bay Jobs with Justice (NBJWJ) is a grassroots coalition building power and winning economic and racial justice for workers on the front lines of climate change.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability; the most unlike its peers is The Ivywood 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

39 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. 39 of the 43 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
18/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RYSE INC: $750,000 · Youth DevelopmentRYSE INCCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $523,400 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITIES FOR A…Environmental Health Coalition: $82,000 · EnvironmentEnvironmental Hea…Urban Tilth: $34,625 · Environment+2 more: $30,000 · EnvironmentOakland Community Land Trust: $600,000 · Housing & ShelterOakland Communit…Causa Justa Just Cause: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterCausa Justa Just…THE IVYWOOD FOUNDATION: $300,000 · PhilanthropyTHE IVYWOOD FOU…EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $255,000 · PhilanthropyEAST BAY COMMUN…TIDES FOUNDATION: $65,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIO…LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $305,000 · Civil RightsLEADERSHIP…COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $97,500 · Civil RightsCOALITION …+1 more: $9,300 · Civil RightsNATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER: $263,000 · OtherNATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CEN…Strategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education: $102,500 · OtherStrategic Concepts In Organ…The Black Organizing Project Inc: $60,000 · OtherThe Black Organizing Projec…INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR LABOR RIGHTS (ICLR): $200,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FO…CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT: $77,500 · OtherCENTER ON RACE POVERTY & TH…Jobs with Justice San Francisco: $75,000 · OtherJobs with Justice San Franc…PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $51,700 · Other+19 more: $224,800 · Other+19 moreCentral Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy: $223,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: $22,000 · Community ImprovementEAST BAY ASIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $11,550 · Community Improvement
Youth Development$750,000Environment$670,025Housing & Shelter$645,000Philanthropy$620,000Civil Rights$411,800Other$1,054,500Community Improvement$256,550

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRYSE INC: $750,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetOakland Community Land Trust: $600,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $523,400 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $305,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetTHE IVYWOOD FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetNATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER: $263,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $255,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCentral Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy: $223,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR LABOR RIGHTS (ICLR): $200,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education: $102,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $97,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEnvironmental Health Coalition: $82,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT: $77,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetJobs with Justice San Francisco: $75,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Black Organizing Project Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $51,700 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCausa Justa Just Cause: $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMITE CIVICO DEL VALLE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUrban Tilth: $34,625 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEast Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: $22,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCalifornia Environmental Justice Alliance: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ: $16,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEAST BAY ASIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $11,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $9,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated: $6,700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRYBE INC: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAffect Real Change Inc: $6,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS: $5,300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $5,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $5,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE: $5,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERTRIBAL FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $5,300 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDANCERS GROUP: $5,300 over 1y, 0.1% 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…The California Wellne…The California Endowm…Movement Strategy Cen…East Bay Community Fo…The San Francisco Fou…The James Irvine Foun…Women's Foundation of…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Tides FoundationImpactassetsincThe Schmidt Family Fo…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC43.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The California Wellness Foundation · The California Endowment · Movement Strategy Center · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Women's Foundation of California · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Schmidt Family 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 Pacific Environmental Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Asian Pacific Environmental Network. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    0get no government money at all
    14report 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 43 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.

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