Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation DossiersMostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →
Plinth

· Public charity

Chinese Progressive Association

The CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION is a grassroots community organization which works for full equality and empowerment of the chinese community in greater boston and beyond.

$62k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
—
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$339kHousing & Shelter$310kArts & Culture$213kPublic Benefit$200kCommunity Improvement$172kEmployment$144kCivil Rights$114kCrime & Legal$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $59,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $62,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,500 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.

$59,500
Median grant
—
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP$59,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $340k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $25k → 7%SE ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $20k → 11%CHELSEA COLLBORATIVE: $25k → 16%QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $20k → 7%SE ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $15k → 11%CHELSEA COLLBORATIVE: $15k → 16%QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $20k → 7%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE: $6k → 16%QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $20k → 7%SOUTH ASIAN WORKERS CENTER: $10k → 7%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOWELL: $20k → 8%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE: $15k → 8%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE: $10k → 8%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE: $8k → 8%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE: $5k → 8%BRAZILIAN WORKER CENTER: $25k → 16%BRAZILIAN WORKER CENTER: $6k → 16%BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP: $25k → 16%BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP: $6k → 16%BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP: $6k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC (AARW): $20k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC (AARW): $20k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 22 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +261% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
9

Total granted

$1.6M
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+261%
+10%

Still filing today

91%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEducationEmploymentOther

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

  • CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $285k · revenue +121% · 31% of their budget
  • ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    5× · 2018–2023 · $199k · revenue +271%
  • ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +432%

Funded once

  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND UNITED FOR JUSTICE
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +10%
  • SA
    SOUTH ASIAN WORKERS' CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +37%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Asian American Civic Association Inc

Aaca's mission is to empower low-income individuals and families by providing education, guidance, resources, and support. our goal is to help them achieve economic stability and mobility, enabling them to build wealth and secure a strong…

Human Services
2
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
3
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
4
Brockton Workers Alliance Inc

To educate, support, organize, and empower immigrant workers to confront long-term workplace abuses and to lead the fight for their rights through the development of better local and national policies.

Human Services
5
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
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
Massachusetts Regional Employment Board Association

The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.

Employment
8
Fair Work Center

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

Employment
9
Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Inc

Atask empowers asian survivors of domestic violence and abuse to rebuild their lives. our work bridges language and cultural gaps for asian communities and advocates for social change.

Crime & Legal
10
Greater Boston Council On Alcoholism Inc
Philanthropy
11
Vietnamese American Roundtable

The Vietnamese American Roundtable (VAR) envisions a strong and unified Vietnamese American community that works towards improving our quality of life. To this end, VAR focuses our mission to organize, advocate, and educate our community.…

Community Improvement
12
Massachusetts Women of Color Network Inc

The Massachusetts Women of Color Network supports the leadership and sustainment of women of color working in the sexual and domestic violence movement in Massachusetts

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brazilian Worker Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chinatown Community Land Trust Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%12%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%39%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr13%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%5%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr19%42%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr13%8%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/32
the rest of the field
11%
2,432/21,701

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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
22/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC — $159,500 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHO…QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC — $85,000 · Human ServicesQUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INCCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc — $57,500 · Human ServicesCambodian Mutual Assistance Ass…LA COLABORATIVA INC — $45,556 · Human ServicesLA COLABORATIVA INCBRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP INC — $36,112 · Human ServicesBRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP INCSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA — $35,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CE…Brazilian Worker Center Inc — $30,556 · Human ServicesBrazilian Worker Center Inc+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesCHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC — $285,000 · Arts & CultureCHINATOWN COMMUNITY …CHINESE CULTURE CONNECTION INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMassachusetts Voter Education Network Inc — $184,975 · Civil RightsMassachusetts Vote…METROWEST WORKER CENTER INCCASA DO TRABALHADOR/CASA DEL TRABAJADOR — $30,556 · Civil RightsMETROWEST WORKER C…MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC — $27,500 · Civil RightsMASSACHUSETTS SENI…RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE — $26,000 · Civil RightsRIGHT TO THE CITY …+1 more — $5,000 · Civil RightsASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $198,626 · Housing & ShelterASIAN COMMUNITY …VIETNAMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT INC — $43,750 · Housing & ShelterVIETNAMESE AMERI…+1 more — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC — $105,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON LEGA…LYNN WORKER CENTER — $51,945 · OtherLYNN WORKER CENTERNEW ENGLAND UNITED FOR JUSTICE — $25,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND UNITED …CHINATOWN RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · OtherCHINATOWN RESIDENTS…BOSTON CHINATOWN RESIDENT ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH INC — $30,556 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS COALI…Boston Foundation Inc — $15,000 · OtherBoston Foundation I…THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $10,000 · Other+3 more — $17,500 · Other+3 moreWOMEN ENCOURAGING EMPOWERMENT INC — $45,000 · EducationFuerza LaboralPower of Workers — $20,556 · EducationCENTRO COMUNITARIO DE TRABAJADORES INCORPORATED — $36,112 · Employment
Human Services$459,224Arts & Culture$295,000Civil Rights$274,031Housing & Shelter$247,376Other$280,001Education$65,556Employment$36,112

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC — $285,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $198,626 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetMassachusetts Voter Education Network Inc — $184,975 over 2y, 19% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC — $159,500 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC — $105,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetQUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC — $85,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc — $57,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC — $45,556 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWOMEN ENCOURAGING EMPOWERMENT INC — $45,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetVIETNAMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT INC — $43,750 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP INC — $36,112 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetCENTRO COMUNITARIO DE TRABAJADORES INCORPORATED — $36,112 over 3y, 16% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA — $35,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH INC — $30,556 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBrazilian Worker Center Inc — $30,556 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC — $27,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE — $26,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFuerza LaboralPower of Workers — $20,556 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN WORKERS' CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCHINESE CULTURE CONNECTION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASTLE SQUARE TENANTS ORGANIZATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncThird Sector New Engl…Barr FoundationHealth Resources in A…The Hyams Foundation …Haymarket People's Fu…Health Care for All I…Eastern Bank Foundati…United Way Of Massach…Center for Economic D…The Lenny Zakim FundPhilanthropy Massachu…
Boston Foundation IncMA34× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Third Sector New England Inc · Barr Foundation · Health Resources in Action Inc · The Hyams Foundation Inc · Haymarket People's Fund Inc · Health Care for All Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Center for Economic Democracy Inc · The Lenny Zakim Fund · Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc

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 Chinese Progressive Association 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Quincy Asian Resources Inc — 43% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Brazilian Worker Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Asian Community Development Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Chinese Culture Connection Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Brazilian Women's Group Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Asian American Resource Workshop Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Community Labor United Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Chinese Progressive Association?

Find your warmest path to Chinese Progressive Association through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $12k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines