Illinois · Nonprofit
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED ASIANS
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED ASIANS (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,155,191 to it, the largest being AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING) ($1,140,541). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $453k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $27k
What American Association of Retired Asians does
Mission
Our mission is to inspire, engage and enhance the emotional, social and physical well being of the senior communityof southe asian origin
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Aara is an all volunteer organization. It provides services to all oldeer adults but mainly work with the south asian americans with limited english proficiency. Most of the programs are funded by community donations.its mission is to serve older adults primarily of south asian backgrounds by providing a range of culturally appropriate and linguistically snesitive services in the greater chicagoland area.
$284,424 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $284,424.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $42k to $97k (+135%).
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.
100% of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED ASIANS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $44k → $225k.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED ASIANS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 funders by total. 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
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED ASIANS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED ASIANS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 96% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED ASIANS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED ASIANS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED ASIANS
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED ASIANS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED ASIANS?
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED ASIANS (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,155,191 to it, the largest being AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING) ($1,140,541). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED ASIANS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,155,191 in grants to AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED ASIANS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED ASIANS?
- AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING) is the largest funder on record, with $1,140,541 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED ASIANS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing