California · Nonprofit
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Asian Pacific Environmental Network (California) receives grants from 117 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,531,447 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,434,517). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.0M
- Funders on record
- 117
- Grants received
- $37M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Asian Pacific Environmental Network does
Mission
APEN builds immigrant and refugee power for a just transition with local roots and statewide impact so all people can live, work, learn, play and thrive in a clean and healthy environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, APEN informed Richmond community members about issues related to health risks and air pollution, and engaged youth in local resilience efforts. In Oakland, we mobilized residents and volunteers in Chinatown to assemble and help distribute over 5,000 emergency preparedness kits, and educated our members on community-centered approaches to public safety. In our newest office in Los Angeles, we recruited and trained new leaders through our APEN Academy.
$3,150,968 spentof which $1,300 as grants$70,088 earned by the program53% of program spendingAPEN was a member of key coalitions advocating for resiliency projects to be included in the $10 billion climate bond which California voters approved in November 2024. This work was part of APEN's limited lobbying activities conducted in accordance with IRS rules governing 501(c)(3) organizations. APEN also participated in educational statewide efforts to raise awareness about the negative health impacts of living near toxic sites for working Californians. Through a nonpartisan civic engagement program, APEN contacted over 5,000 Californians throughout the state in multiple languages, by phone or in their neighborhoods, to share information about these issues.
$1,267,632 spentof which $15,900 as grants$49,438 earned by the program21% of program spendingAPEN provided key leadership and support to local, state, and national alliances including: Asian American Pacific Islanders for Civic Empowerment, California Environmental Justice Alliance, California Green New Deal Coalition, Grassroots Asians Rising, and Oakland Rising.
$970,318 spentof which $215,000 as grants$11,000 earned by the program16% of program spendingAYPAL is a leadership development, community organizing, and coalition-building organization that seeks to create healthy, safe, and thriving communities. In 2024, AYPAL provided leadership development, community engagement activities, and arts opportunities for youth, including peer- led cultural and political education, civic engagement activities, and in-person community art events in collaboration with local artists of color. AYPAL's winter visual arts exhibit, FOB: Fresh Off the Block, showcased the voice and narrative of API youth in Oakland through photography and spoken word poetry. In the spring, during API Heritage Month, the AYPAL May Arts Festival brought the community together through traditional cultural dances and a resource fair for the Chinatown community.
$586,713 spent$8,800 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,975,631.
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 $5.3M to $13M (+138%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 10% · 2021 1% · 2022 2% · 2023 4% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Asian Pacific Environmental Network’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Allistair Mallillin
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $4.4M.
24 of 117 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Pacific Environmental Network’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 117 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 Pacific Environmental Network has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
60% 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 Environmental Network.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 13% · 2018 12% · 2019 16% · 2020 8% · 2021 7% · 2022 8% · 2023 18% — 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
45% of Asian Pacific Environmental Network's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
68% of Asian Pacific Environmental Network's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 Pacific Environmental Network holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Asian Pacific Environmental Network
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.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 Pacific Environmental Network: 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 Environmental Network?
- Asian Pacific Environmental Network (California) receives grants from 117 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,531,447 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,434,517). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Asian Pacific Environmental Network have?
- IRS filings report 117 organizations giving $36,531,447 in grants to Asian Pacific Environmental Network, 70 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Asian Pacific Environmental Network?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,434,517 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Asian Pacific Environmental Network 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 117 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