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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
Itemized grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$297k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$52,833
Largest grant, FY2023
$234,221
Organizations funded a year
2 to 13
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$5.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Coalition of Asian American Leaders funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesInternationalEducationOther
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
FY20232$287k50%
FY20222$44k100%
FY20213$75k100%
FY202013$190kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mn8$259,185224%
Capi USA$52,83311%
Vietnamese Social Services of Minnesota$40,00013%
Latinolead Inc$25,00015%
African American Leadership Forum$25,00011%
The Tiwahe Foundation$25,000110%
Sewa-Aifw$20,00011%
Asian Media Access$20,0001n/a
Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood For$20,00013%
Spirited Films LLC$19,0001n/a
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All grantees of Coalition of Asian American Leaders by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mn8$259,185224%
Capi USA$52,83311%
Vietnamese Social Services of Minnesota$40,00013%
Latinolead Inc$25,00015%
African American Leadership Forum$25,00011%
The Tiwahe Foundation$25,000110%
Sewa-Aifw$20,00011%
Asian Media Access$20,0001n/a
Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood For$20,00013%
Spirited Films LLC$19,0001n/a
Advancement of Hmong Americans$10,0001n/a
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum$10,00010%
Karen Organization of Minnesota$10,00010%
Release Mn8$10,0001n/a
Transforming Generations Tg$10,00013%
India Association of Minnesota$10,00015%
Hmong American Farmers Association$10,00010%
Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota$10,00012%
Sead Project$10,00014%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Coalition of Asian American Leaders supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetLatinolead Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetAfrican American Leadership Forum: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Tiwahe Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSewa-Aifw: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetReviving the Islamic Sisterhood For: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNational Asian Pacific American Women's Forum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKaren Organization of Minnesota: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTransforming Generations Tg: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetIndia Association of Minnesota: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetHmong American Farmers Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLao Assistance Center of Minnesota: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSead Project: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% 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 15.

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.

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

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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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.

About Coalition of Asian American Leaders

How much does Coalition of Asian American Leaders give?
Coalition of Asian American Leaders reported 3 itemized grants totaling $297,054, out of $317,853 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Coalition of Asian American Leaders fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (58%), Civil Rights (12%), International (10%).
Who are Coalition of Asian American Leaders's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Mn8 ($259k), Capi USA ($53k), Vietnamese Social Services of Minnesota ($40k).
Does Coalition of Asian American Leaders fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Coalition of Asian American Leaders?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
Where is Coalition of Asian American Leaders based?
Coalition of Asian American Leaders is based in MN.

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 20 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 (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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