· Public charity
The Asian American Foundation
THE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION (taaf) serves the aapi community in their pursuit of belonging and prosperity that is free from discrimination, slander and violence, in furtherance of its charitable mission taaf conducts.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k48 grants · $5.3M
- $250k+11 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES | $500,000 |
| COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO | $400,000 |
| CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE | $400,000 |
| SIKH COALITION | $360,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| ASIAN AMERICAN FUTURES | $300,000 |
| ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP | $250,000 |
| ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION | $250,000 |
| RIDEBACK RISE INC | $250,000 |
| CISC-CHINESE INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER | $250,000 |
| CENTER FOR ASIAN AMERICAN MEDIA | $250,000 |
| SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | $207,000 |
| CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER | $200,000 |
| SOUTHEAST ASIA RESOURCE ACTION CENTER | $200,000 |
| FLORIDA IMMIGRANT COALITION INC | $150,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
50 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 17 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES4× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +37%- CACHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +25%
- TSTHE SIKH COALITION4× · 2021–2024 · $855k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +34%
Chinese for Affirmative Actionone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -57%- TPThe Pew Charitable Trustsgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +36%
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.
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.
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…
AAPIP expands and mobilizes resources for AAPI communities to build a more just and equitable society.
CAAAV Voice is a grassroot organization aiming to empower Asian immigrant communities by organizing against gentrification, tenant rights and promote social justice.
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…
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.
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.
Advancing the AANHPI communities through increased leadership and civic engagement.
The core mission of ASIAN, Inc. is the empowerment of the Asian American Community to achieve social equality by reducing dependency to create and expand access to opportunities in the areas of business development, housing and education.…
To empower AAPI youth in underserved communities through culturally responsive programming and advocacy.AALEAD envisions a United States in which all youth are supported, empowered, and celebrated within equitable, abundant and thriving…
A non-profit dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publication, research support and career development.
How this is measured
102 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. 102 of the 106 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Chinese for Affirmative Action ↗
- Who funds The Pew Charitable Trusts ↗
- Who funds TALKINGPOINTS ↗
- Who funds THE SIKH COALITION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds Jeremy Lin Foundation ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Center for Asian American Media ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds RIDEBACK RISE INC ↗
- Who funds Chinese Information and Service Center ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN FUTURES ↗
- Who funds THE ASIAN AMERICAN EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ACT TO CHANGE ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF ASIAN PACIFICS IN ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sikh American Legal Defense & Education ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIA RESOURCE ACTION CENTER SEARAC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds Daya Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Asian American Voices for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH AMERICA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Gofundmeorg · Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc · Asian American Federation Inc · Asian American Coalition for Children and Families Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development · Robin Hood Foundation · Wallace H Coulter Trust · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Wallace H Coulter Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Asian American Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Asian American Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Aapi Montclair Inc: 21% of income from government
- Asian American Resource Workshop Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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