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Asian American Media Inc

Asian American Media Inc (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,028 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($68,800). 2 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 FY2024
$281k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$159k
Net assets
$180k
2/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Asian American Media Inc does

Mission

Driving the narrative about AAPIs to showcase all that is American about us.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. All other achievements

    $330,661 spentof which $50,500 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Selected by Library of Congress as a preservation site for our cultural and historical significance

  3. Held a conference at UC Berkeley bringing together members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community across the political spectrum. More than 100 people attended the day-long conference

  4. Hosted veteran network news anchor Connie Chung to discuss her life and career during an in-person gathering at Columbia University

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $330,661.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($98k) Expenses 100 ($61k) Net assets 100 ($59k)2023 Revenue 393 ($385k) Expenses 252 ($153k) Net assets 490 ($290k)2024 Revenue 287 ($281k) Expenses 641 ($391k) Net assets 304 ($180k)
202220232024
Revenue (287)Expenses (641)Net assets (304)Peer revenue range

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 $60k to $291k (+388%).

$60k
$291k
$188k
202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 51% · 2023 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of Asian American Media Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$37k
’22
$231k
’23
−$110k
’24
4.0
months of
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.

Board chair

David Liu

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

202220232024
Listed445
Joined·+0+1
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 Media Inc’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

Asian American Media Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

74% 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 Media Inc.

43%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

“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

58% of Asian American Media Inc'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 $66k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from California funders.

CA
DE
DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Asian American Media Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−39% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)69% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 9%Fundraising 6%

Governance

5
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Asian American Media Inc: 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 Media Inc?
Asian American Media Inc (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,028 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($68,800). 2 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 Asian American Media Inc have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $159,028 in grants to Asian American Media Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Asian American Media Inc?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $68,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Asian American Media Inc 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 7 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