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Southeast Asia Resource Action Center Searac

Searac is a national civil rights organization that builds power with diverse communities from cambodia, laos, and vietnam to create a socially just and equitable society.

$359k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2021–2024.

Human Services$469kArts & Culture$164kCommunity Improvement$123kCivil Rights$84kEducation$77kInternational$33kHousing & Shelter$33kEnvironment$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $336,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $359,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,750 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $114k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $222k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VIETNAMESE AMERICAN ROUNDTABLE$62,000
IU MIEN COMMUNITY SERVICES$55,000
THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY$55,000
THE FRESNO CENTER$50,000
ALLIANCE FOR RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION$20,250
CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS$20,000
INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN ASSISTANCE NETWORK$15,000
UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY$15,000
COALITION OF ASIAN AMERICAN LEADERS$12,000
CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOWELL INC$12,000
LAO ASSISTANCE CENTER OF MINNESOTA$10,000
UNAVSA$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–24, $422k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $32k → 8%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP: $47k → 16%CAMBODIAN ASSOC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $7k → 22%THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY: $55k → 10%THE FRESNO CENTER: $50k → 19%MEKONG NYC: $18k → 28%BOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $20k → 16%ALLIANCE FOR RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION: $88k → 14%LAO COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $6k → 9%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $12k → 8%THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY: $7k → 10%CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS: $20k → 10%ALLIANCE FOR RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION: $20k → 14%THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY: $6k → 10%UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY: $18k → 14%UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY: $15k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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MN
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MA
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CT
RI
CA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$627k · 12 repeat orgs$375k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
17

Total granted

$627k
$290k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsInternationalYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $109k · revenue +9%
  • IM
    IU MIEN COMMUNITY SERVICES
    2× · 2022–2024 · $73k · revenue +0%
  • CO
    Coalition of Asian American Leaders
    3× · 2021–2024 · $73k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • SA
    SOUTHEAST ASIAN AMERICAN EDUCATION COALITION
    one grant, 2022 · $67k · revenue -97% · 96% of their budget
  • ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $47k · revenue +150%
  • VIETNAMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue +5%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
2
Vietnamese American Cultural Alliance
Arts & Culture
3
Hmong American Mediation Center Inc

Program Orientation Hmong Cultural Foundations values, kinship, elders, conflict norms

Crime & Legal
4
Vietnamese American Nongovernmental Organization Network

Our mission is to lead effective collaborations and strengthen humanitarian, cultural, and developmental works through capacity building and workshops in underserved communities.

International
5
Southeast Asian Action Inc

Southeast Asian Action (SEA Action) is a national social justice C4 nonprofit organization whose mission is to secure economic, racial, and immigrant justice by strengthening Southeast Asians' collective power. Our vision is to build…

Civil Rights
6
Asians for Collective Action

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.

Public Benefit
7
Hmong American Womens Association Inc

To organize Southeast Asian women, girls, Queer and Trans people to champion gender justice and collective liberation.

Human Services
8
United Asian American Alliance Inc

For the betterment of communities.

Public Benefit
9
Alliance for Asian American Justice Inc

Coordinate pro bono legal aid for victims of anti-Asian violence.

Civil Rights
10
United Cambodian Association of Minnesota

Provide services in the areas of information, referral, community education and to assist southeast asian refugees and immigrants in transitioning to self-sufficency.

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11
Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc

CAAAV was founded in 1986 as one of the first groups in the United States to respond to racially motivated violence against Asians. Since then, CAAAV has broaden its focus to address a wide array of needs and challenges facing the Asian…

Civil Rights
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iu Mien Community Services and the most unlike its peers is The International Network for Aid Relief and Assistance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%21%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%42%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,533

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 32 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
18/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION — $108,670 · Human ServicesALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR E…THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY — $67,614 · Human ServicesTHE CAMBODIAN FAMILYTHE FRESNO CENTER — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRESNO CENTERASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC — $46,690 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INCCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc — $44,200 · Human ServicesCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Grea…UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY INC — $33,450 · Human ServicesUNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY INCCENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS — $20,000 · Human ServicesBOAT PEOPLE SOS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesMekong Inc — $18,000 · Human Services+2 more — $12,922 · Human ServicesIU MIEN COMMUNITY SERVICES — $73,450 · Arts & CultureIU MIEN COMMUNITY SE…Coalition of Asian American Leaders — $73,000 · Arts & CultureCoalition of Asian A…Hmong Cultural Center of Butte County — $18,450 · Arts & CultureHmong Cultural Cente…UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS — $17,500 · Arts & CultureUNION OF NORTH AMERI…VIETNAMESE AMERICAN ROUNDTABLE — $113,450 · Community ImprovementVIETNAMESE A…PIVOT-THE PROGRESSIVE VIETNAMESE AMERICAN ORGANIZATION — $25,450 · Civil RightsLAOTIAN AMERICAN NATIONAL ALLIANCE — $24,100 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Action — $12,500 · Civil RightsKhmer Anti-Deportation Advocacy Group — $10,000 · Civil RightsSOUTHEAST ASIAN AMERICAN EDUCATION COALITION — $66,600 · EducationLao Assistance Center of Minnesota — $35,000 · OtherLao Assistan…HMONG ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON — $11,600 · OtherHMONG ASSOCI…CRW STRATEGY LLC — $10,000 · OtherCRW STRATEGY…THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR AID RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE INC — $15,000 · OtherTHE INTERNAT…International Children Assistance Network Inc — $7,000 · OtherInternationa…SOUTHEAST ASIAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $6,000 · OtherKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION — $5,600 · OtherAsian Pacific Environmental Network — $8,850 · OtherAsian Pacifi…FRESNO INTERDENOMINATIONAL REFUGEE MINISTRIES — $8,850 · OtherFRESNO INTER…SEAD PROJECT — $5,500 · OtherVIETNAMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT INC — $32,890 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$421,546Arts & Culture$182,400Community Improvement$113,450Civil Rights$72,050Education$66,600Other$113,400Housing & Shelter$32,890

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVIETNAMESE AMERICAN ROUNDTABLE — $113,450 over 3y, 16% of budgetALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION — $108,670 over 2y, 15% of budgetIU MIEN COMMUNITY SERVICES — $73,450 over 2y, 17% of budgetCoalition of Asian American Leaders — $73,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CAMBODIAN FAMILY — $67,614 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN AMERICAN EDUCATION COALITION — $66,600 over 1y, 96% of budgetTHE FRESNO CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC — $46,690 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc — $44,200 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetLao Assistance Center of Minnesota — $35,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY INC — $33,450 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVIETNAMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT INC — $32,890 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPIVOT-THE PROGRESSIVE VIETNAMESE AMERICAN ORGANIZATION — $25,450 over 2y, 14% of budgetLAOTIAN AMERICAN NATIONAL ALLIANCE — $24,100 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOAT PEOPLE SOS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHmong Cultural Center of Butte County — $18,450 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMekong Inc — $18,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS — $17,500 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR AID RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHMONG ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON — $11,600 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network — $8,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRESNO INTERDENOMINATIONAL REFUGEE MINISTRIES — $8,850 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Children Assistance Network Inc — $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC — $6,922 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION — $5,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEAD PROJECT — $5,500 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

GofundmeorgNational Coalition fo…Asian Pacific FundThe California Endowm…Sierra Health Foundat…The California Wellne…Asian Americans Advan…Asian Americans Advan…Philanthropic Venture…Amalgamated Charitabl…Inatai FoundationEast Bay Community Fo…
GofundmeorgCA29.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gofundmeorg · National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development · Asian Pacific Fund · The California Endowment · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · The California Wellness Foundation · Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California · Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Inatai Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation

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 Southeast Asia Resource Action Center Searac 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Asian American Resource Workshop Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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