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ASIAN AMERICAN ART & CULTURE INITIATIVE

ASIAN AMERICAN ART & CULTURE INITIATIVE (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,500 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($14,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$71k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$12k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Asian American Art & Culture Initiative does

Mission

Asian American Art & Culture Initiative is an organization promotes Asian art, culture and history through various programs, such as exhibition, contemporary art work and history/art workshops.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Besides Math Exhibition - art exhibition curated to showcase young Asian artist's talent partnering with Houston Central Library

    $712 spentof which $4,719 as grants
    1% of program spending
  2. Roots Unveiled Exhibition - a humanity centric exhibition focus on Chinese American history in Texas with contemporary artwork, historical documents and video arts along with oral history recording. We provide stipends to the artists to create these artwork and video.

    $41,396 spentof which $38,813 as grants
    73% of program spending
  3. Resonance Video Art - it is a significant video narrating a Chinese American early settler's transpacific history. The producers did extensive research, created the video and recorded oral history. It will be presented in 2026.

    $14,229 spentof which $11,224 as grants
    25% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $56,337.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($4k) Expenses 100 ($2k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2025 Revenue 1591 ($71k) Expenses 2656 ($62k) Net assets 572 ($12k)
20242025
Revenue (1591)Expenses (2656)Net assets (572)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2k to $12k (+472%).

$2k
$12k
20242025
Total assets

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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

81% of ASIAN AMERICAN ART & CULTURE INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’24
$9k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of ASIAN AMERICAN ART & CULTURE INITIATIVE’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.

Where its funders are

100% of ASIAN AMERICAN ART & CULTURE INITIATIVE's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ASIAN AMERICAN ART & CULTURE INITIATIVE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1491% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

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

TX

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN ART & CULTURE INITIATIVE?
ASIAN AMERICAN ART & CULTURE INITIATIVE (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,500 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($14,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASIAN AMERICAN ART & CULTURE INITIATIVE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $14,500 in grants to ASIAN AMERICAN ART & CULTURE INITIATIVE.
Who is the largest funder of ASIAN AMERICAN ART & CULTURE INITIATIVE?
Houston Arts Alliance is the largest funder on record, with $14,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASIAN AMERICAN ART & CULTURE INITIATIVE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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