California · Nonprofit
ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,000 to it, the largest being CHINESE AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY ($28,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $125k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $239k
What Asian Pacific American Medical Students Association does
Mission
Asian pacific american medical education and community service
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Apamsa held its inaugural heal (hepatitis, equity, advocacy & leadership) summit on november 78, 2025 in washington, d.c., hosted by george washington university school of medicine and health sciences. This event replaced and expanded the former annual hepatitis b/c conference. Day 1 (november 7): advocacy day on capitol hill apamsa members engaged with legislators on aanhpi health topics, medical education, and health policy, including a capitol building tour. Day 2 (november 8): full conference day with keynote speakers (dr. Arnab mukherjea on health equity, meredith wilson on outreach), research presentations, breakout sessions, and networking. Apamsa disbursed travel subsidies for directors, committee members, national board members, and chapter representatives attending. Funded in part by gilead sciences and community grants.
$42,049 spent42% of program spendingApamsa held its 31st annual national conference in-person on march 79, 2025 at the trent semans center, duke university school of medicine, durham, nc. Over 300 pre-medical students, medical students, and healthcare professionals attended this 3-day event. The conference theme, "blossom: healing our communities and inspiring transformation," explored intergenerational trauma, racial healing, mental health within aanhpi communities, and aanhpi identity in medicine. The conference featured keynote speakers, breakout sessions, panel discussions, a research poster session, the apamsa house of delegates (hod) meeting, and a banquet. Revenue included stripe/joinit ticket sales, direct zelle/paypal payments, and sponsorships from nbme, duke university, hpsrx, american academy of pediatrics, kaiser permanente (scpmg), ichs, and others. Apamsa provided travel subsidies for executive board members, national board members, and house of delegates chapter representatives.
$57,535 spent58% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $99,584.
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 $190k to $233k (+23%).
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.
52% of ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $7k.
From the IRS filings of ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION’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 PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 59% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION's revenue grew 68% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS 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 PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION?
- ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,000 to it, the largest being CHINESE AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY ($28,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $58,000 in grants to ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION?
- CHINESE AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $28,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION 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.
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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 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing