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AAPI Women Lead

AAPI Women Lead (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $491,684 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$563k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$492k
Net assets
$2.6M
0/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What AAPI Women Lead does

Mission

AAPI Women Lead is a community-based, intergenerational organization committed to ending violence and uplifting stories of Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (ANHPI) women, girls, and non-binary communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Collective Narrative Shift - We provided digital education through social media platforms and webinars as well as in person events on violence against ANHPI communities and story telling in ANHPI communities.

    $184,184 spent
    35% of program spending
  2. Healing and Wellness - We hosted in person and online healing and wellness trainings to support community members.

    $182,238 spent
    34% of program spending
  3. Research - Our research program hosted trainings and attended educational events across the United States to teach about our organization's research on gender violence.

    $153,136 spent
    29% of program spending
  4. ANHPI Heritage Month - Our organization uses this month to bring together community through a shared purpose of celebrating our communities longstanding stories, culture and histories of power and healing.

    $10,074 spent
    2% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $529,632.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($264k) Net assets 100 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 13 ($438k) Expenses 296 ($782k) Net assets 89 ($2.8M)2025 Revenue 17 ($563k) Expenses 273 ($723k) Net assets 84 ($2.6M)
202320242025
Revenue (17)Expenses (273)Net assets (84)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3.2M to $2.8M (−10%).

$3.2M
$2.8M
$2.7M
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

93% of AAPI Women Lead’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,454 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.1M
’23
−$344k
’24
−$160k
’25
44
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Connie Wun

Pres & Exec Dir

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed244
Joined··+0
No longer listed··0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100 → $2k.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AAPI Women Lead’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

AAPI Women Lead leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

62% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AAPI Women Lead.

31%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

56% of AAPI Women Lead's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $215k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from California funders.

WA
NY
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $277k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AAPI Women Lead holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,668 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−28% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve43.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−59% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like AAPI Women Lead

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 13%Fundraising 14%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 3 states

NY
CA
DC

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds AAPI Women Lead?
AAPI Women Lead (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $491,684 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AAPI Women Lead have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $491,684 in grants to AAPI Women Lead.
Who is the largest funder of AAPI Women Lead?
CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AAPI Women Lead find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing