Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC
ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,806,730 to it, the largest being The Hyams Foundation Inc ($803,807). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Asian American Resource Workshop Inc does
Mission
Community organizing, leadership development, and community building for pan-asian communities in greater boston.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Aarw organizes pan-asian communities around issues of displacement and supports grassroots leadership development. This includes programs to support southeast and south asian youth and young adults, narrative strategy projects and the boston asian american film festival, workshops and civic engagement development, spaces for members to build their organizing skills and respond to timely issues within the asian american community, and working directly with asian american community members, particularly those who speak vietnamese, around issues of housing and immigration. Here is a list of the programs we support:-dorchester organizing and training initiative: dot-I is an innovative organizing space for vietnamese american young adults who live in dorchester. Fellows are working on projects around housing, immigration, and education equity.-dorchester tenant organizing & development without displacement: aarw is growing base-building of working-class vietnamese tenants and community members to organize within a multiracial community pushing back against unaffordable and speculative development by supporting policy and solutions such as tenant protections to stabilize…
$1,316,537 spentof which $140,000 as grants$20,506 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,316,537.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.1M to $3.1M (+52%).
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 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 7% · 2021 1% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC’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. 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.
Board chair
Eleanor Craig
Co-chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $108k → $853k.
16 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $40k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Asian American Resource Workshop Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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 RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
64% 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 RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 39% · 2019 27% · 2020 24% · 2021 29% · 2022 25% · 2023 29% — broadly stable.
“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
52% of ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC'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
63% of ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $962k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Government funding ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $31k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$28k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$3k
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 ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP 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 RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC?
- ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,806,730 to it, the largest being The Hyams Foundation Inc ($803,807). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $4,806,730 in grants to ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC?
- The Hyams Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $803,807 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 52 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