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· Public charity

Union of Pan Asian Communities

To improve the general well-being and education of the asian, pacific islander and other ethnic communities of san diego county.

$48k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$157kArts & Culture$45kCivil Rights$35kScience & Tech$35kHealth$15kEducation$11kPhilanthropy$5k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $45,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $48,450 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,250 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 $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
$5,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$23,700
LAO AMERICANS ORGANIZATION OF SAN DIEGO$6,000
ASIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION$5,500
KYOTO SYMPOSIUM$5,000
SAN DIEGO JAPANESE CITIZENS LEAGUE$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHINESE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: $10k → 10%SAN DIEGO JAPANESE A CITIZEN LEAGUE: $5k → 11%CHINESE FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: $5k → 10%NAMI SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%NAMI SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%NAMI SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%ASIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $6k → 11%JAPAN SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO & TIJUANA: $5k → 11%JAPAN SOCIETY OF SAN DEIGO & TIJUANA: $5k → 11%JAPAN SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO & TIJUANA: $5k → 11%JAPAN SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO & TIJUANA: $5k → 11%DSDS LEW FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%SAN DIEGO STATE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%SAN DIEGO JAPANESE CITIZENS LEAGUE: $5k → 11%LAO AMERICANS ORGANIZATION OF SAN DIEGO: $6k → 11%SAN DIEGO JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE: $5k → 11%SAN DIEGO JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE: $5k → 11%SAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $29k → 11%SAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $27k → 11%SAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $27k → 11%SAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $24k → 11%SAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $20k → 11%SAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $20k → 11%SAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $5k → 11%NEW AMERICAN MUSEUM: $10k → 11%NEW AMERICAN MUSEUM: $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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$276k · 7 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$276k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-18%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • KS
    KYOTO SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +31%
  • NS
    NAMI SAN DIEGO
    3× · 2019–2022 · $15k · revenue +148%
  • Chinese for Affirmative Action
    2× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +411%

Funded once

  • DL
    DSDS LEW FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -50% · 50% of their budget
  • WI
    Wayword Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +28%
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
Japantown Cultural Society
Education
2
San Diego Double Ten Committee
Arts & Culture
3
Herencia Hispana San Diego

Unite all latino americans

Membership Benefit
4
San Diego Chinese Historical Society and Museum

Preservation of the history and heritage of Chinese-Americans in San Diego and the education of people in Chinese-American history. Special exhibits & lectures occur in addition to permanent exhibits.

Arts & Culture
5
San Diego Coasters
Arts & Culture
6
Association of Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists of New Mexico
Science & Tech
7
San Diego County Philatelic Council

To promote stamp collecting

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8
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
9
San Diego Tamil Palli

Tamil Academy

Education
10
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Afl-Cio

The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.

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11
San Diego Convention and Tourist Bureau

To drive visitor demand to economically benefit the san diego region.

—
12
Building Industry Association of San Diego

The mission of the building industry association of san diego is to proactively promote a positive business environment for the land development, home building and commercial development industry throughout san diego county.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Chapter Japanese American Citizens League Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dsds Lew Family Foundation 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $151,250 · OtherSAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCESAN DIEGO CHAPTER JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE INC: $20,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO CHAPTER JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE INCNAMI SAN DIEGO: $15,000 · OtherNAMI SAN DIEGO+2 more: $11,500 · Other+2 moreNEW AMERICANS MUSEUM INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNEW AMERICANS MU…JAPAN SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA: $20,000 · Arts & CultureJAPAN SOCIETY OF…Wayword Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWayword IncKYOTO SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION: $35,000 · EducationKYOTO SYMPOSIU…THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationTHE CAMPANILE …Chinese for Affirmative Action: $15,000 · Civil RightsDSDS LEW FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$197,750Arts & Culture$45,000Education$40,000Civil Rights$15,000Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetSAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $151,250 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetKYOTO SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION: $35,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetNEW AMERICANS MUSEUM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO CHAPTER JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE INC: $20,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetJAPAN SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA: $20,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetNAMI SAN DIEGO: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDSDS LEW FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetWayword Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The San Diego Foundat…The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Union of Pan Asian Communities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Union of Pan Asian Communities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.
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    How do I get to Union of Pan Asian Communities?

    Find your warmest path to Union of Pan Asian Communities through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 12 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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