· Public charity
Civic Leadership USA Clusa
Our mission is to strengthen the status, image, participation, influence and collaboration in civic engagement of asian americans.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $15,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $21,480 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,980 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $15,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 62% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCENTRAL CALIFORNIA BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $355k · revenue -28% · 70% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2019–2022 · $290k
- APAsian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs - Community Education Foundation2× · 2019–2021 · $187k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- CLCivic Leadership Academyone grant, 2021 · $330k
- APAsian & Pacific Islander American Votegraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +261% · 28% of their budget
- NANational Asian American United Incone grant, 2019 · $90k · revenue -99% · 58% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Coordinate pro bono legal aid for victims of anti-Asian violence.
T o create synergy for uniting Asian Pacific American leaders and API organizations and to promote APIA empowerment and civic engagement
The Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) is a network organization of Asian Minnesotan leaders harnessing our collective power to improve the lives of community.
CAA is a community-based civil rights organization that conducts community service, policy advocacy, and movement building activities.
AAPIP expands and mobilizes resources for AAPI communities to build a more just and equitable society.
The center promotes the artistic and organizational growth of the San Francisco Bay Areas Asian Pacific arts community by organizing and presenting the annual United States of Asian America Festival
To advance the legal and civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans through direct services, education and advocacy.
Represent interests of Asian-Pacific Island Women.
Center for Asian Americans United for Self Empowerment CAUSE is a 501c3 nonprofit, nonpartisan, community-based organization with a mission to advance the political and civic empowerment of the Asian Pacific American APA community through…
The core mission of ASIAN, Inc. is the empowerment of the Asian American Community to achieve social equality by reducing dependency to create and expand access to opportunities in the areas of business development, housing and education.…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 1990 Institute and the most unlike its peers is Central California Bleeding Disorders Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs - Community Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote ↗
- Who funds National Asian American United Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FEDERATION OF FILIPINO AMERICAN ASSOC ↗
- Who funds THE 1990 INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SANTA CLARA COUNTY ASIAN LAW ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHINESE AMERICANS ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY MEDIA ↗
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.
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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 Civic Leadership USA Clusa 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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