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Civic Leadership USA Clusa

Our mission is to strengthen the status, image, participation, influence and collaboration in civic engagement of asian americans.

$21k
Granted FY2023
1
Itemized grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$16k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$15,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$15,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$19k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Civic Leadership USA Clusa funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
InternationalArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$16k100%
FY202211$285k82%
FY20215$486k40%
FY20205$319k60%
FY201910$780kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Public Benefit$998kHealth$393kScience & Tech$306kCivil Rights$134kEmployment$30kCrime & Legal$11kArts & Culture$8kEducation$6k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Civic Leadership USA Clusa supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCentral California Bleeding Disorders Foundation: $355,000 over 3y, 70% of budgetAsian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs - Community Education Foundation: $186,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetAsian & Pacific Islander American Vote: $100,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetNational Asian American United Inc: $90,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetNational Federation of Filipino American Assoc: $23,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetThe 1990 Institute: $12,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSanta Clara County Asian Law Alliance: $11,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Chinese Americans: $8,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Civic Leadership USA Clusa?

Find your warmest path to Civic Leadership USA Clusa 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.

About Civic Leadership USA Clusa

How much does Civic Leadership USA Clusa give?
Civic Leadership USA Clusa reported 1 itemized grants totaling $15,500, out of $21,480 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Civic Leadership USA Clusa fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Public Benefit (53%), Health (21%), Science & Tech (16%).
Who are Civic Leadership USA Clusa's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: Central California Bleeding Disorders Foundation ($355k), Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs - Community Education Foundation ($187k), Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote ($100k).
Does Civic Leadership USA Clusa fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Civic Leadership USA Clusa?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Civic Leadership USA Clusa based?
Civic Leadership USA Clusa is based in CA.

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 25 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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