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ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER CAPITOL ASSN

ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER CAPITOL ASSN (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,000 to it, the largest being ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS FOUNDATION ($56,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$103k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$71k
Net assets
$125k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%
01What it does

What Asian Pacific Islander Capitol Assn does

Mission

The Asian Pacific Islander Capitol Association (APICA) is a non-partisan, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization comprised of legislative staffers, advocates, and other API professionals based in the State Capitol community of Sacramento, California. The organization seeks to increase and support the representation of Asian Pacific Islander professionals working in the Capitol community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The Asian Pacific Islander Capitol Association (APICA) is a non-partisan, non-profit organization of legislative staffers, advocates, and other professionals based in the State Capitol of Sacramento, California. APICA is dedicated to ensuring the success of AANHPI and SWANA identifying members in the Capitol Community. One of APICAs top accomplishments from 2025 is our paid summer fellowship program, which provides college students and recent graduates an opportunity to gain meaningful work experience in the California State Legislature. In collaboration with the California Asian American Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus (AAPILC), APICA hosted six fellows during the summer of 2025. Fellows participated in a 10 week program where they were placed in a legislative office for 32 hours per week. During the fellowship, APICA also provided the fellows with a week-long orientation, professional and skill development sessions, dedicated mentorship, and connection with a network of staff, advocates, and elected officials. Since its inception, the internship program has hosted over 50 interns. APICA also hosts an annual fundraiser event Sushi Showdown, where the proceeds support the…

    $59,699 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,699.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($56k) Expenses 100 ($53k) Net assets 100 ($28k)2019 Revenue 95 ($53k) Expenses 122 ($64k) Net assets 79 ($22k)2021 Revenue 123 ($69k) Expenses 65 ($34k) Net assets 265 ($73k)2023 Revenue 173 ($97k) Expenses 115 ($60k) Net assets 304 ($84k)2024 Revenue 178 ($100k) Expenses 148 ($78k) Net assets 384 ($106k)2025 Revenue 184 ($103k) Expenses 160 ($84k) Net assets 451 ($125k)
201720192021202320242025
Revenue (184)Expenses (160)Net assets (451)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $84k to $106k (+26%).

$28k
$22k
$73k
$84k
$106k
$125k
201720192021202320242025
Total assets

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.

2017
2019
2021
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER CAPITOL ASSN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’17
−$11k
’19
$35k
’21
$37k
’23
$22k
’24
$19k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $28k → $33k.

From the IRS filings of ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER CAPITOL ASSN’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 ISLANDER CAPITOL ASSN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86% 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 ISLANDER CAPITOL ASSN.

79%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 85% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER CAPITOL ASSN's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’22
’23
California out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER CAPITOL ASSN runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER CAPITOL ASSN?
ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER CAPITOL ASSN (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,000 to it, the largest being ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS FOUNDATION ($56,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER CAPITOL ASSN have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $71,000 in grants to ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER CAPITOL ASSN, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER CAPITOL ASSN?
ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $56,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER CAPITOL ASSN 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