· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $15,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 62% of its 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 25 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 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 ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Civic Leadership USA Clusa funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Civic Leadership USA Clusa. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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