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Institute for Asian Pacific American Leadership and Advancement

To provide training and leadership development opportunities for asian american native hawaiian pacific islander (aanhpi) workers; to support research of and for aanhpi workers; and to pursue social and economic justice forall workers.

$113k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Public Benefit$976kYouth Development$141kCivil Rights$17kHuman Services$15kHousing & Shelter$11k
02FY2022 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $90,345, the rows itemized in this filing. The $112,931 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,586 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROGRESS MICHIGAN EDUCATION$24,192
PILIPINO WORKERS' CENTER$20,000
ACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES$20,000
ASIAN AMERICANS UNITED$15,000
THE REFORMED CHURCH OF HIGHLAND PARK AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPORATION$11,153
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%APALA-INLAND EMPIRE CHAPTER: $15k → 11%THE REFORMED CHURCH OF HIGHLAND PARK AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPORATION: $11k → 8%APALA INLAND EMPIRE CHAPTER: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
MI
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CA
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$893k · 11 repeat orgs$267k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$893k
$256k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+6%

Still filing today

73%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCivil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • ASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $141k · revenue +214%
  • AF
    American Fed of Labor & Congress of Ind TX Gulf Coast Area Labor Feder
    2× · 2019–2020 · $52k · revenue +446%
  • PW
    PILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN
    2× · 2021–2022 · $49k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • SE
    SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION
    one grant, 2020 · $170k · revenue +6%
  • AP
    Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -45%
  • TA
    TEXAS AFL-CIO
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +6%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance Afl -Cio

Committed to developing a comprehensive strategy to help asian american native hawaiian pacific islander (aanhpi) workers form their unions and promoting the participation and leadership of aanhpi workers within the labor movement and…

—
2
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
3
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc

AAPIP expands and mobilizes resources for AAPI communities to build a more just and equitable society.

Philanthropy
4
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
5
Afl-Cio Union Lawyers Alliance

Afl-cio union lawyers alliance was established to better the conditions of working men and women and their families by enhancing the quality of legal representation that is available to the afl-cio and the national and international unions…

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6
Aapi Equity Alliance

Aapi equity alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations that advocates for the rights and needs of the asian and pacific islander (api) community in the greater los angeles area, with particular focus on low-income, immigrant,…

Human Services
7
American Intellectual Property Law Association

The association was formed to maintain a high standard of professional ethics among its members and to aid in the institution of improvements in legal education and to provide information to the public in laws relating to patents,…

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8
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement

To develop and promote the participation of workers of latin american descent in the trade union movement and the political process.

Civil Rights
9
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 825ABCDRRH

The work of the union, as the representative of its members, is to provide for the continuous employment of labor, to bring about stable conditions in the industry, and to establish necessary procedures for resolutions of disputes between…

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10
Association of Asian American Investment Managers

Founded in the Year 2006, the Association of Asian American Investment Managers AAAIM is a national trade association dedicated to the advance of AAPIs Asian Americans & Pacific-Islanders in the asset management industry. AAAIM supports…

Community Improvement
11
Alameda County Prosecutors Association

Alameda county prosecutors association is a labor association that represents the employment interests of deputy district attorneys (including senior deputy district attorneys, also known as assistant district attorneys) employed in the…

Employment
12
Graduate Employees Union Psu Aft Aa

The graduate employee union is committed to establishing a powerful, democratic, transparent organization of graduate assistants advocating for fair wages, workplace protections, and healthcare. vision: we strive to work with the…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chinese Progressive Association; the most unlike its peers is Progress Michigan Education Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

APALA-NV: $290,000 · OtherAPALA-NVSERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION: $170,000 · OtherSERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNIONPenn Immigration & Citizenship Coalition: $96,286 · OtherPenn Immigration & Citizenship CoalitionAmerican Fed of Labor & Congress of Ind TX Gulf Coast Area Labor Feder: $51,946 · OtherAmerican Fed of Labor & Congress of Ind TX Gulf Coast Area Labor FederURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $44,000 · OtherURBAN AFFAIRS COALITIONCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $42,000 · OtherCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION+4 more: $80,500 · Other+4 moreASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC: $141,330 · Youth DevelopmentASIAN AMERICA…ACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES: $65,000 · PhilanthropyProgress Michigan Education Inc: $64,984 · Public BenefitPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $49,200 · Community ImprovementINSTITUTE FOR ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP AND ADVANCEMENT: $24,500 · Human ServicesReformed Church Of Highland Park - Affordable Housing Corp: $11,153 · Human ServicesAsian & Pacific Islander American Vote: $30,000 · Civil Rights
Other$774,732Youth Development$141,330Philanthropy$65,000Public Benefit$64,984Community Improvement$49,200Human Services$35,653Civil Rights$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION: $170,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC: $141,330 over 5y, 16% of budgetACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES: $65,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetProgress Michigan Education Inc: $64,984 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetAmerican Fed of Labor & Congress of Ind TX Gulf Coast Area Labor Feder: $51,946 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $49,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $44,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $42,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetAsian & Pacific Islander American Vote: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTEXAS AFL-CIO: $24,600 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP AND ADVANCEMENT: $24,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetReformed Church Of Highland Park - Affordable Housing Corp: $11,153 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

NEO Philanthropy IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Wallace H Coulter Tru…Tides FoundationNew Venture FundAsian & Pacific Islan…Asian Americans Advan…GofundmeorgImpactassetsincNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
NEO Philanthropy IncNY17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Wallace H Coulter Trust · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote · Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc · Gofundmeorg · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Institute for Asian Pacific American Leadership and Advancement funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Institute for Asian Pacific American Leadership and Advancement. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 17 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 2022, released 2022. 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 $2k 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 FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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