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Chinese Progressive Association

The CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION educates and organizes the low income and working class immigrant chinese community in san francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Civil Rights$6.8MPublic Benefit$903kHuman Services$719kYouth Development$531kEmployment$510kCommunity Improvement$498kEnvironment$363kEducation$206kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $179k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $1.0M
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND$150,000
SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION (SEAC VILLAGE)$150,000
ASIAN PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK$150,000
ASIAN AMERICANS UNITED$150,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$150,000
ARAB AMERICAN ACTION NETWORK$150,000
CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND$100,000
FORCE FOR CHANGE BALLOT COMMITTEE$49,000
KIWA (KOREATOWN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ALLIANCE)$20,000
HOUSING RIGHTS COMMITTEE OF SAN FRANCISCO$10,000
BET TZEDECK LEGAL SERVICES$10,000
MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT$10,000
PILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$10,000
ASIAN LAW CAUCUS$10,000
CALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC$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 (FY18–24, $782k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $10k → 10%FILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE: $64k → 10%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION (SEAC VILLAGE): $150k → 10%BARRED BUSINESS FOUNDATION CO: $25k → 14%FAITH IN INDIANA: $8k → 16%Tides CenterPODER: $76k → 10%Transgender Advocates Knowled: $6k → 17%SEAC VILLAGE: $17k → 10%Ubuntu Village New Orleans: $19k → 23%Filipino Advocates for Justic: $40k → 10%Asian Youth Center: $35k → 14%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION: $22k → 10%EQUITY & TRANSFORMATION: $150k → 14%Southeast Asian Coalition: $17k → 10%Southeast Asian Coalition: $17k → 10%GARMENT WORKERS CENTER: $10k → 14%Korean Resource Center: $9k → 14%TAJA COALITION: $50k → 10%Filipino Amer Development Fdn: $43k → 10%African Advocacy Network: $11k → 10%Filipino Amer Development Fdn: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
RI
CA
MO
KY
VA
AR
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.9M · 18 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
59

Total granted

$6.9M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $609k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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
    CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND
    4× · 2021–2024 · $369k · revenue +480%
  • AP
    Asian Pacific Environmental Network
    6× · 2018–2024 · $363k · revenue +184%
  • Chinese for Affirmative Action
    4× · 2018–2022 · $240k · revenue +415%

Funded once

  • STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +154%
  • BC
    BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +23%
  • EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -35%
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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
3
Caaav Voice Inc

CAAAV Voice is a grassroot organization aiming to empower Asian immigrant communities by organizing against gentrification, tenant rights and promote social justice.

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4
Black Alliance for Just Immigration

The organization provides public education on the issues related to fair and just immigration policies.

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
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
7
Detention Watch Network

Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.

Human Services
8
National Legal Advocacy Network Dba Glow

The National Legal Advocacy Network d/b/a Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through…

Crime & Legal
9
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.

—
10
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
11
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc

Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…

Human Services
12
Alliance for Asian American Justice Inc

Coordinate pro bono legal aid for victims of anti-Asian violence.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc; the most unlike its peers is St James Infirmary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

86 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. 86 of the 93 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/86
Grantees still filing
46/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS: $4,801,919 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICSCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $368,926 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUNDBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $250,000 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Action: $240,430 · Civil Rights+10 more: $672,673 · Civil Rights+10 moreSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION: $221,000 · Human ServicesEQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $150,000 · Human ServicesFILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE: $104,424 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $98,110 · Human ServicesTRANSGENDER ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY COALITION: $50,000 · Human ServicesFilipino-American Development Foundation: $48,156 · Human ServicesASIAN YOUTH CENTER: $35,000 · Human Services+8 more: $97,886 · Human ServicesLABORS TRAINING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE: $100,000 · OtherTHE FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $91,066 · OtherLA RAZA CENTRO LEGAL - SAN FRANCISCO: $68,838 · OtherAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $363,088 · OtherAsian Pacific Enviro…MISSION ACTION INC: $142,160 · OtherMISSION ACTION INCHudson Catskill Housing Coalition: $100,000 · OtherVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $150,000 · OtherVIRGINIA NEW MAJORIT…THE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · OtherTHE BLACK BELT COMMU…+33 more: $849,579 · Other+33 moreArab American Action Network: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentLiberty and Legacy Era: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION: $72,192 · Youth DevelopmentPROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT: $72,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $160,000 · Community ImprovementPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $85,430 · Community ImprovementRACE FORWARD: $80,000 · Community ImprovementCATALYST MIAMI INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementDRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc: $37,125 · Community ImprovementKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $23,000 · Community ImprovementEmancipate NC Inc: $125,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN MOVEMENT COMMITTEE: $125,000 · Crime & LegalAsian Law Caucus: $94,780 · Crime & LegalFAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF LOUISIANAS INCARCERATED CHILDREN: $18,775 · Crime & Legal+3 more: $28,000 · Crime & LegalSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $250,000 · Public BenefitCenter for Common Ground: $125,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $8,000 · Public Benefit
Civil Rights$6,333,948Human Services$804,576Other$1,989,731Youth Development$544,192Community Improvement$455,555Crime & Legal$391,555Public Benefit$383,000

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 budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS: $4,801,919 over 2y, 43% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $368,926 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $363,088 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $240,430 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION: $221,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $160,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArab American Action Network: $150,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $150,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC: $150,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMISSION ACTION INC: $142,160 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCenter for Common Ground: $125,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRESTOREHER USAMERICA INC: $125,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetEmancipate NC Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHERN MOVEMENT COMMITTEE: $125,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetFILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE: $104,424 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA BLACK POWER NETWORK: $100,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetWOMEN ENGAGED INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetLABORS TRAINING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetHudson Catskill Housing Coalition: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $98,110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsian Law Caucus: $94,780 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $91,066 over 1y, 11% of budgetPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $85,430 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetRACE FORWARD: $80,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION: $72,192 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT: $72,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetLA RAZA CENTRO LEGAL - SAN FRANCISCO: $68,838 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $65,755 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPASTORS UNITED COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC: $62,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetPOWER TO THE POLLS INC: $62,500 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTRANSGENDER ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY COALITION: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATALYST MIAMI INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFilipino-American Development Foundation: $48,156 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $48,017 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGeorgia Strategic Alliance for New: $46,525 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetST JAMES INFIRMARY: $39,400 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc: $37,125 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetASIAN YOUTH CENTER: $35,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommittee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc: $30,750 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFAITH IN NEW YORK: $28,375 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA: $28,375 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetDWIGHT HALL AT YALE: $28,375 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

NEO Philanthropy IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Tides CenterTides FoundationBorealis PhilanthropyNew Venture FundMovement Strategy Cen…The James Irvine Foun…Common Counsel Founda…The California Endowm…Groundswell FundMarguerite Casey Foun…
NEO Philanthropy IncNY55.1× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Center · Tides Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · New Venture Fund · Movement Strategy Center · The James Irvine Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · The California Endowment · Groundswell Fund · Marguerite Casey 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 Chinese Progressive Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chinese Progressive Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 93 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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