Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION
ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,417,654 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,000,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $9.4M
- Net assets
- $8.8M
What Asian American Journalists Association does
Mission
To provide and maintain programs for professionals and students - such as multimedia training opportunities, executive leadership programs, and fellowships. Student programs include media internships, journalism training internship grants, and journalism scholarships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
During the covid pandemic and thereafter, aaja continued to adapt to virtual meetings, to help those in the journalism industry handle the many challenges. Via zoom meetings, we were able to stay connected, encourage and present our educational material. The aaja convention continues to meet the skills training, leadership development, and community education opportunities of our members and stakeholders in a constantly evolving industry, drawing more than 1,500 participants annually since we returned to in-person convenings in 2022.
$2,336,494 spentof which $361,579 as grants$167,497 earned by the program96% of program spendingScholarship program: aaja provides scholarships to deserving students committed to a career in journalism. The program is open to all students. Journalism scholarships, internship grants, media internships, journalism training and graduate school scholarships are all available.
$106,508 spentof which $106,508 as grants4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,443,002.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $6.0M to $8.9M (+48%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 2% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Naomi Tacuyan Underwood
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $334k → $1.4M.
18 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
56% 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 ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 38% · 2019 20% · 2020 43% · 2021 17% · 2022 15% · 2023 24% — 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
42% of ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: 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 ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION?
- ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,417,654 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,000,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $9,417,654 in grants to ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 67 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