Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Asian American LEAD
Asian American LEAD (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,060,673 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,000,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Asian American LEAD does
Mission
To empower AAPI youth in underserved communities through culturally responsive programming and advocacy.AALEAD envisions a United States in which all youth are supported, empowered, and celebrated within equitable, abundant and thriving communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The AALEAD After School Program provides educational empowerment for middle and high school aged youth by educating them on identity development and leadership skills from a STEAM centered curriculum including college and career readiness, financial literacy, and workforce development. Programs create a safe and supportive space to embrace identity and engage in opportunities for leadership and civic engagement. AALEAD serves youth in weekly after school programs through a community-based model in D.C. and at designated school sites aligned with demographic needs within Arlington County, Fairfax County, and Montgomery County. In FY25, AALEAD supported 378 youth attending 19 public and charter schools with afterschool programs across DC, MD, and VA. Across all programs, 501 youth were served in afterschool, summer, and mentoring programs. According to cumulative surveys, in developing leadership skills, 86% of participants reported feeling more confident in their leadership skills because of skills learned and opportunities provided by AALEAD. Approximately 90% of participants reported being better informed on how to take steps to achieve their educational goals, while 92% felt…
$859,615 spent84% of program spendingAALEAD's Mentoring Program connects youth aged 8-18 with caring adults 21+ years old, to form relationships that provide youth with a safe avenue to express their feelings and frustrations, improve their self-esteem, and foster positive self-identity. The program follows an evidence based social and emotional learning framework that gives mentees opportunities to explore new interests and develop hobbies, motivate them to pursue higher education, and prepare them for careers with support from their mentors. In FY25, the Mentoring Program had a total of 40 matches with a one-to-one ratio of adult mentors and youth mentees.
$85,376 spent8% of program spendingAALEAD provides free summer programs for youth ages 11-18 for five days per week, for five weeks to bridge the gap in learning loss during summer months. Summer programs center experiential hands-on learning with a STEAM centered curriculum focusing on identity and leadership development. Youth engage in weekly local field trips and projects to bridge community engagement with skills learned in programs. Youth explored topics of storytelling, identity exploration, and community engagement through various leadership development skills such as presenting and facilitating amongst peers. Programs operate at one school site in each region in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. In FY25, 113 youth were served across all regions in summer programs. According to youth reported surveys, approximately 89% of youth learned how their personal life connects to the world around them, and 91% learned about the experiences of people from different cultures and races. Furthermore, 91% reported having improved skills in empathy, teamwork, & problem solving because of summer programs.
$74,749 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,019,740.
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 2020 to 2021, from $195k to $2.6M (+1245%).
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: 2017 59% · 2018 51% · 2019 37% · 2020 52% · 2021 20% · 2022 55% · 2023 48% · 2024 60% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of Asian American LEAD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Siu Cheung Rossmark
Executive Director
Board chair
Robert Sohn
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $131k → $224k.
9 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 LEAD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 LEAD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 LEAD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 41% · 2019 36% · 2020 45% · 2021 89% · 2022 29% · 2023 38% — 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.
How long its funders stay
21% of Asian American LEAD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
67% of Asian American 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 $1.3M that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 LEAD is better cushioned than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Asian American 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% 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 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Asian American LEAD: 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 LEAD?
- Asian American LEAD (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,060,673 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,000,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Asian American LEAD have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $4,060,673 in grants to Asian American LEAD, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Asian American LEAD?
- 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 LEAD 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 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