Missouri · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $434,756 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $212k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $435k
- Net assets
- $351k
What Association for Asian American Studies does
Mission
Founded in 1979, the Association for Asian American Studies (aaas) is the primary research and teaching hub for asian american studies, an interdisciplinary field born out of the 1960s movements for racial justice, third world liberation, and student activism.advancing the highest professional standards of research, teaching, and service in the field of asian american studies, aaas is committed to sponsoring conferences, symposia, special projects, and publications. These activities engage the association's priorities with regard to scholarship, mentorship, and pedagogy. Equally important is the degree to which the association's various objectives reflect multiple communities and varied identities within the broader asian american umbrella.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The annual conference and journal provide a venue for sharing new ideas in the field of asian american studies.
$216,757 spentof which $3,189 as grants$180,189 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $216,757.
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 $170k to $627k (+268%).
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.
14% of ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $47k → $7k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES’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
ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 80% · 2022 100% · 2023 82% — 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
17% of ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% 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
85% of ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $65k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $369k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5k on record.
- Smithsonian Institution$5k
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 ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES?
- ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $434,756 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $434,756 in grants to ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 8 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