· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k16 grants · $357k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Thank You for Thinking of Me | $100,000 |
| African Cowboy DBA Dream Seek | $100,000 |
| Cloud Machine LLC | $100,000 |
| Sublime Madness | $100,000 |
| Capital K Pictures | $100,000 |
| USMP LLC | $100,000 |
| Flash Cuts | $75,000 |
| WNET Educational Broadcasting | $75,000 |
| Third Cousin Pictures Inc | $75,000 |
| Yoube Productions LLC | $75,000 |
| From Kudzu Collective LLC | $75,000 |
| Center for Independent Doc | $50,000 |
| International Documentary Ass | $50,000 |
| Bayani Workshop | $50,000 |
| Japanese American National | $40,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 28%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ALAXS Lab Inc3× · 2017–2021 · $120k · revenue +62%
THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC2× · 2021–2025 · $58k · revenue +106%- DPDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA2× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- RPROSE PAK COMMUNITY FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +81%
- GWGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +56%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 102 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds AXS Lab Inc ↗
- Who funds ROSE PAK COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds FIRELIGHT MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds LATINO PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Center for Asian American Media funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Asian American Media. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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