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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.

$215k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Human Services$469kArts & Culture$164kCommunity Improvement$123kCivil Rights$84kEducation$77kInternational$33kHousing & Shelter$33kEnvironment$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $188,942, the rows itemized in this filing. The $214,942 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $26,000 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $149k
$12,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAO ASSISTANCE CENTER OF MINNESOTA$24,273
IU MIEN COMMUNITY SERVICES$23,123
ALLIANCE FOR RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION$20,250
CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$18,373
BOAT PEOPLE SOS-HOUSTON INC$16,773
FREEDOM INC$12,500
CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSIATANCE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOWELL INC$12,000
VIETNAMESE AMERICAN ROUNDTABLE$12,000
COALITION OF ASIAN AMERICAN LEADERS$10,000
FRESNO INTERDENOMINATIONAL REFUGEE MINISTRIES$8,100
STONE SOUP FRESNO$7,550
ASIAN AMERICANS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND EQUALITY$6,000
THE FRESNO CENTER$6,000
UNITED KHMER CULTURAL PRESERVATION$6,000
A HOPEFUL ENCOUNTER$6,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $507k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $32k → 8%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP: $47k → 16%CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $18k → 22%THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY: $55k → 10%THE FRESNO CENTER: $50k → 19%MEKONG NYC: $18k → 28%BOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $20k → 16%FREEDOM INC: $13k → 10%ALLIANCE FOR RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION: $88k → 14%LAO COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $6k → 9%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSIATANCE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $12k → 8%CAMBODIAN ASSOC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $7k → 22%THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY: $7k → 10%CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS: $20k → 10%THE FRESNO CENTER: $6k → 19%BOAT PEOPLE SOS-HOUSTON INC: $17k → 16%ALLIANCE FOR RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION: $20k → 14%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $12k → 8%THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY: $6k → 10%UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY: $18k → 14%ALLIANCE FOR RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION: $20k → 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
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
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$883k · 17 repeat orgs$309k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
15

Total granted

$883k
$277k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsInternationalYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $129k · revenue +9%
  • IM
    IU MIEN COMMUNITY SERVICES
    3× · 2022–2025 · $97k · revenue +0%
  • CO
    Coalition of Asian American Leaders
    4× · 2021–2025 · $83k · 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 INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue +68%
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 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
United Asian American Alliance Inc

For the betterment of communities.

Public Benefit
6
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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7
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
8
Alliance for Asian American Justice Inc

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

Civil Rights
9
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
10
Hmong American Womens Association Inc

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

Human Services
11
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
12
National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association

Advocacy group mandated to mental health and well being of Asian American, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chinese for Affirmative Action; the most unlike its peers is A Hopeful Encounter. 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

34 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. 34 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
20/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION: $128,920 · Human ServicesALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR ED…THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY: $67,614 · Human ServicesTHE CAMBODIAN FAMILYCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc: $56,200 · Human ServicesCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Great…THE FRESNO CENTER: $56,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRESNO CENTERASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC: $46,690 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INCBOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $36,773 · Human ServicesBOAT PEOPLE SOS INCUNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY INC: $33,450 · Human ServicesUNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY INCCAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $25,295 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS: $20,000 · Human ServicesMekong Inc: $18,000 · Human Services+2 more: $18,500 · Human ServicesIU MIEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $96,573 · Arts & CultureIU MIEN COMMUNITY SE…Coalition of Asian American Leaders: $83,000 · 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: $125,450 · Community ImprovementVIETNAMESE …Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota: $59,273 · OtherLao Assistance …HMONG ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON: $11,600 · OtherHMONG ASSOCIATI…CRW STRATEGY LLC: $10,000 · OtherCRW STRATEGY LL…UNITED KHMER CULTURAL PRESERVATION: $6,000 · OtherTHE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR AID RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE INC: $15,000 · OtherTHE INTERNATION…International Children Assistance Network Inc: $7,000 · OtherA HOPEFUL ENCOUNTER: $6,000 · OtherFRESNO INTERDENOMINATIONAL REFUGEE MINISTRIES: $16,950 · OtherFRESNO INTERDEN…SOUTHEAST ASIAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $6,000 · OtherKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION: $5,600 · OtherAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $8,850 · OtherAsian Pacific E…STONE SOUP FRESNO: $7,550 · Other+1 more: $5,500 · OtherPIVOT-THE PROGRESSIVE VIETNAMESE AMERICAN ORGANIZATION: $25,450 · Civil RightsLAOTIAN AMERICAN NATIONAL ALLIANCE: $24,100 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Action: $18,500 · Civil RightsKhmer Anti-Deportation Advocacy Group: $10,000 · Civil RightsSOUTHEAST ASIAN AMERICAN EDUCATION COALITION: $66,600 · EducationVIETNAMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT INC: $32,890 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$507,442Arts & Culture$215,523Community Improvement$125,450Other$165,323Civil Rights$78,050Education$66,600Housing & Shelter$32,890

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION: $128,920 over 3y, 15% of budgetVIETNAMESE AMERICAN ROUNDTABLE: $125,450 over 4y, 16% of budgetIU MIEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $96,573 over 3y, 17% of budgetCoalition of Asian American Leaders: $83,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CAMBODIAN FAMILY: $67,614 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN AMERICAN EDUCATION COALITION: $66,600 over 1y, 96% of budgetLao Assistance Center of Minnesota: $59,273 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc: $56,200 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE FRESNO CENTER: $56,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC: $46,690 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $36,773 over 2y, 1.1% 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 budgetCAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $25,295 over 2y, 1.1% 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 budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $18,500 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetFRESNO INTERDENOMINATIONAL REFUGEE MINISTRIES: $16,950 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR AID RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHMONG ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON: $11,600 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $8,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTONE SOUP FRESNO: $7,550 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Children Assistance Network Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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
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.

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

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 Southeast Asia Resource Action Center Searac funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southeast Asia Resource Action Center Searac. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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