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The Asia Group Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $134k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE | $30,000 |
| RUNNING START | $30,000 |
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $27,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC | $16,000 |
| MIRIAM'S KITCHEN | $10,500 |
| RHINO 911 | $10,000 |
| STREET WISE PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| CITY BLOSSOMS | $7,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICAN SOCIETIES | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL GIVING | $1,000 |
| SEJONG SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of The Asia Group Foundation’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, 35% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 32% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RSRunning Start8× · 2017–2024 · $286k · revenue +29%
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $160k · revenue +36%- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2024 · $123k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- CDCHINA DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATIone grant, 2020 · $21k
- KBKIIN BEH EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +19%
- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY NSWone grant, 2020 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Under the auspices of the united nations and guided by its ideals, the united nations international school (unis) provides an inclusive and diverse learning environment in which rigorous international programs foster academic excellence,…
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To promote international cooperation and understanding between japan, the united states, and other countries through leadership exchanges, policy dialogues and research, and the facilitation of person-to-person interactions.
Global ties u.s. (global ties) powers individuals, communities, and nations to build trust and advance peace and prosperity through international exchange.
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Running Start. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
35 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. 35 of the 60 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Running Start ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rhino 911 ↗
- Who funds CHINA FOLK HOUSE RETREAT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR URBAN DEBATE LEAGUES ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC ↗
- Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds US-CHINA STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIIN BEH EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY BLOSSOMS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds US-ASEAN Business Council Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LANGLEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Asian Pacific American Legal ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Asian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional ↗
- Who funds STREETWISE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 The Asia Group Foundation 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.
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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