California · Nonprofit
API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center
API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,260,141 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($801,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center does
Mission
Oakland Asian Cultural Center builds vibrant communities through Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) arts and cultural programs that foster intergenerational and cross-cultural dialogue, cultural identity, collaborations, and social justice.API Cultural Center, Inc. dba Oakland Asian Cultural Center believes that culture and heritage play a critical role in building and maintaining vibrant and healthy communities. The Center showcases a wide range of cultural and artistic expression including dance,literature,music and the visual arts. OACC serves as a resource for understanding the legacy of Asians and Pacific Islanders and their unique influences on the cultural identities and enrichment of our communities and to build bridges of understanding among all communities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community arts/cultural programs- includes programs that directly serve and integrate the community in bringing the highest quality Asian and Pacific American arts and culture programming to OACC, such as presentations & talks, film screenings, and exhibitions via on-site and online recording and streaming platforms. Artist support programs include OACCs Artist in Residence which fosters emerging and established local APA artists in creating new works which are then premiered at an event. OACC also offers affordable facility rentals to the public and community-based organizations (CBOs). OACC often presents programs in collaboration with community partners who use space at cost or no cost.
$416,425 spent$281,143 earned by the program57% of program spendingCultural Heritage Programs-Include programs that preserve Asian and Pacific Islander history, culture and heritage. This includes organizing annual festivals (Lunar New Year Celebration and Full Moon Festival), exhibitions, artist demonstrations, and workshops.
$170,351 spent$10,263 earned by the program23% of program spendingYouth/Family programsincludes programs that focus specifically on providing children and youth the opportunity to learn more about Asian Pacific Islander culture, history, and artistic heritage. Programs include School Tours and off-site Community Outreach Programs, and weekly language, performing, and visual art classes.
$149,337 spent$7,898 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $736,113.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $761k to $1.1M (+41%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 12% · 2019 16% · 2020 12% · 2021 26% · 2022 30% · 2023 23% · 2024 28% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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 broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $106k → $457k.
11 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center’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
API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 47% · 2019 55% · 2020 39% · 2021 52% · 2022 34% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
36% of API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
58% of API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center'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 $958k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$45k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center: 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 API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center?
- API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,260,141 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($801,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,260,141 in grants to API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $801,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 25 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