Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,886,080 to it, the largest being UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ($70,782,047). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $108M
- Net assets
- $35M
What Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund does
Mission
Our mission is to make a difference in the lives of apia scholars by providing them with resources that increase their access to higher education which serves as the foundation for their future success and contributions to a more vibrant america. Our vision is to see that our apia scholars have the finances and resources necessary to cultivate their academic, personal and professional success regardless of their ethnicity, national origin or financial means.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
College access: apia scholars manages the apia scholarship and gates millennium scholarships. Through these scholarship programs, apia scholars has distributed more than $260 million in college scholarships to more than 12,000 deserving scholars across the country and in the pacific islands. Our focus on multiyear scholarships removes financial barriers while promoting degree attainment.
$7,665,358 spentof which $6,092,456 as grants79% of program spendingStudent college to career success: student success programs reduce financial barriers to college completion and support college-to-career outcomes for apia scholars. Programs provide focused support through community engagement, guidance on managing financial challenges, and internship and career development programming to promote post-college success. Services are delivered through structured programs, workshops, events, and direct scholar support.
$1,418,234 spent15% of program spendingResearch and partnerships: research and partnerships advance scholar persistence and completion through data-driven research and cross-sector partnerships that analyze outcomes and inform recommendations and program improvement.
$672,719 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,756,311.
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 $7.8M to $37M (+370%).
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: 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Noel Harmon
President & executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $15M → $4.4M.
16 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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 AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 99% · 2019 98% · 2020 83% · 2021 74% · 2022 62% · 2023 60% — 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
44% of ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
90% of ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND is better cushioned than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND
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
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND: 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 AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND?
- ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,886,080 to it, the largest being UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ($70,782,047). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $107,886,080 in grants to ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND?
- UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $70,782,047 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 45 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