Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP
CONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,507 to it, the largest being MILNE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $176k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $104k
- Net assets
- $312k
What Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership does
Mission
Schedule O
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
CAPALs Public Service Internship Program places undergraduate and graduate students within the public sector in Washington, D.C., and throughout the U.S. Intern duties may include policy or scientific research, project coordination and management, business, law, special events, communications, and more. Placements may be in rural or urban areas, such as Wisconsin, Hawaii, and California. Applicants are asked to specify their placement preferences on the application, and those selected will be placed based on their interests and skills. These internships are open to all majors. All interns are awarded a minimum $3,000 stipend. The CAPAL-MAASU Public Service Scholarship will be awarded to an undergraduate student enrolled at a school that is a member of the Midwest Asian American Students Union (MAASU). All eligible scholarship applicants will be considered for the CAPAL-MAASU scholarship.
$205,221 spentof which $99,997 as grants84% of program spendingWashington Leadership Program (WLP). This is an opportunity for interns and young professionals to supplement their summer internship experience, learn about issues facing the AANHPI community, explore careers in public service, and share their stories. Sessions include panel discussions as well as skills-based simulations. WLP is the only educational and leadership development working series in Washington, D.C., that focuses specifically on the AANHPI community and its role in public policy.
$29,317 spent12% of program spendingCAPAL organizes regular professional development and cultural awareness programming throughout the year in the Washington, D.C., metro area. Events are open to professionals from all sectors who have an interest in public service and/or the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. These events generally occur on a monthly basis and include networking mixers, speaker panels, and roundtable discussions.
$9,773 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $244,311.
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 2023 to 2024, from $356k to $466k (+31%).
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 68% · 2021 70% · 2022 76% · 2023 86% · 2024 90% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Aaron Chan
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $11k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 CONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP’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
CONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 CONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 60% · 2023 46% — 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
CONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP is better cushioned than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $192k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$192k
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 CONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP?
- CONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,507 to it, the largest being MILNE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $103,507 in grants to CONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP?
- MILNE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP 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.
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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 6 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