California · Public charity
Center for Asian American Media
To present stories that convey the richness and diversity of asian american experiences to the broadest audience possible. The center does this by funding, producing, distributing, and exhibiting films, television, live performances and digital media.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 88%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 88% of the organizations Center for Asian American Media funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $355k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $1.5M | 83% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $365k | 88% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $162k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $500k | 80% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $652k | 83% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $351k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $70k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $395k | 91% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| WGBH Educational Foundation | $247,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Documentary Inc | $170,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Chol Soo Lee Documentary LLC | $133,376 | 3 | n/a |
| AXS Lab Inc | $120,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Thank You for Thinking of Me | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Usmp LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cloud Machine LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sublime Madness | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rose Pak Community Fund | $100,000 | 1 | 23% |
| African Cowboy LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| WGBH Educational Foundation | $247,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Documentary Inc | $170,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Chol Soo Lee Documentary LLC | $133,376 | 3 | n/a |
| AXS Lab Inc | $120,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Thank You for Thinking of Me | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Usmp LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cloud Machine LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sublime Madness | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rose Pak Community Fund | $100,000 | 1 | 23% |
| African Cowboy LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Capital K Pictures | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Third Cousin Pictures Inc | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yoube Productions LLC | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wnet | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| From Kudzu Collective LLC | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Flash Cuts | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote | $75,000 | 1 | 1% |
| This Is How It Ends LLC | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Center for Independent Documentary Inc | $57,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Windy Films | $55,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Firelight Media Inc | $52,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chinatown Rising LLC | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| International Documentary Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Oyster Films LLC | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Debbie Lum LLC | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| TalkStory LLC | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Public Media Group of Southern California | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bayani Workshop | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Latino Public Broadcasting | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Black Public Media Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Golden Screen Series LLC | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| PLAG Documentary LLC | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jaddoland LLC | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| PJ Raval LLC | $43,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Japanese American National Museum | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Digital Diaspora Family Reunion LLC | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Detroit Public Media | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Asian Ballers LLC | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Diaspora Arts Connection Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Mirafilms LLC | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Meerkat Media LLC | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Anchor Pictures Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| After Spring | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| KDN Videoworks Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Leelee Films Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kartemquin Educational Films | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Guul Films LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| People First Productions LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Uniondocs Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Taxi Driver Doc LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Making Waves Films LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Real Talkies LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sikh American Legal Defense & Education | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mekong Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mu Films | $20,000 | 1 | 17% |
| The Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Flash Cuts | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Media Factory | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Farallon Documentary Films Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 20% |
| North Dakota Native Vote | $16,238 | 1 | n/a |
| Walking Iris Media | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ghost Pictures | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Western Native Voice Inc | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vision Maker Media | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Bitanga Productions LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Khanal Productions LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pbs North Carolina | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Fire Work Media LLC | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Unseen Documentary LLC | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| South Florida Pbs Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($763k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Center for Asian American Media supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Sundance Institute · The San Francisco Foundation · Chicken & Egg Films Inc · Perspective Media Initiatives Inc · Pacific Islanders in Communications · Jerome Foundation Inc · Wyncote Foundation · International Documentary Foundation Inc · Gofundmeorg
How this is measured
About Center for Asian American Media
- How much does Center for Asian American Media give?
- Center for Asian American Media reported 30 itemized grants totaling $1,482,238, out of $1,816,738 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Center for Asian American Media fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (86%), Health (4%), Philanthropy (4%).
- Who are Center for Asian American Media's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: WGBH Educational Foundation ($247k), American Documentary Inc ($170k), Chol Soo Lee Documentary LLC ($133k).
- Does Center for Asian American Media fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Center for Asian American Media?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Center for Asian American Media based?
- Center for Asian American Media is based in CA.
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