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Coalition of Asian American Leaders

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.

$318k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$234k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
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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 FY2020–2023.

Human Services$349kCivil Rights$70kInternational$63kArts & Culture$49kCommunity Improvement$35kReligion$20kFood & Nutrition$10kPublic Benefit$10k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $297,054 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $317,853 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,799 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.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $287k
$52,833
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MN8$234,221
CAPI USA$52,833
Edina Community Foundation$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–23, $374k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ADVANCEMENT OF HMONG AMERICANS: $10k → 14%MN8: $234k → 14%VIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES: $40k → 14%MN8: $25k → 14%SEWA-AIFW INC: $20k → 11%Tiwahe Foundation: $25k → 14%TRANSFORMING GENERATIONS: $10k → 14%THE KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MN: $10k → 14%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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of Coalition of Asian American Leaders’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Coalition of Asian American Leaderslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your 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.

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Coalition of Asian American Leaders

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
3
Minnesota African Womens Association

TO Promote the health and well being of African refugee and immigrant women and their families in the twin City area through research, education ,advocacy and programming

Human Services
4
Asian Women United of Minnesota

Asian Women United of Minnesota (AWUM)'s mission is to end domestic violence by promoting safe and healthy relationships within the Asian-Pacific Islander community.

Human Services
5
Sahan Journal

Sahan Journal provides immigrants and communities of color with free, fair, and responsive journalism that shows everyone the way to a more equitable Minnesota.

Education
6
Laotian American National Alliance

Advance wellbeing of Laotian Americans in the U.S.

Civil Rights
7
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
8
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
9
Ayada Leads

Ayada Leads is a nonpartisan civic leadership organization that supports multicultural society, multicultural democracy, and gender equality. Our mission is to equip New Americans, particularly African Diaspora Women, to excel in…

Human Services
10
Asian Economic Development Association

To increase economic opportunities for asian americans.

Employment
11
Intercultural Mutual Assistance Association of Southeastern Minnesota

Intercultural mutual assistance association builds bridges between cultures by providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services.

Human Services
12
Chinese Community Center
Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is MN8 and the most unlike its peers is Sead Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MN8 — $259,185 · Human ServicesMN8VIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA — $40,000 · Human ServicesVIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTATHE TIWAHE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE TIWAHE FOUNDATIONSEWA-AIFW — $20,000 · Human ServicesSEWA-AIFW+3 more — $30,000 · Human Services+3 moreLATINOLEAD INC — $25,000 · OtherLATINOLEAD INCASIAN MEDIA ACCESS — $20,000 · OtherASIAN MEDIA ACCESSSpirited Films LLC — $19,000 · OtherSpirited Films LLCTHE EDINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherTHE EDINA COMMUNITY…RELEASE MN8 — $10,000 · OtherRELEASE MN8Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota — $10,000 · OtherLao Assistance Cent…INDIA ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA — $10,000 · OtherINDIA ASSOCIATION O…CAPI USA — $52,833 · InternationalCAPI USAAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM — $25,000 · EducationREVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FOR — $20,000 · ReligionNATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM — $10,000 · Civil RightsHMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Food & NutritionSEAD PROJECT — $10,000 · Public Benefit
Human Services$374,185Other$104,000International$52,833Education$25,000Religion$20,000Civil Rights$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Public Benefit$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMN8 — $259,185 over 2y, 24% of budgetCAPI USA — $52,833 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA — $40,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLATINOLEAD INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE TIWAHE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetREVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FOR — $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSEWA-AIFW — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTRANSFORMING GENERATIONS TG — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EDINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLao Assistance Center of Minnesota — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEAD PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetINDIA ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% 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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustWomen's Foundation of…Headwaters Foundation…Target FoundationPropel NonprofitsGreater Twin Cities U…Fr Bigelow FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…BCBSM Foundation IncMinnesota Humanities …
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN35.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Target Foundation · Propel Nonprofits · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · BCBSM Foundation Inc · Minnesota Humanities Center

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 Coalition of Asian American Leaders 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.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

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    How do I get to Coalition of Asian American Leaders?

    Find your warmest path to Coalition of Asian American Leaders 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 20 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $246k 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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