Illinois · Nonprofit
Evanston Aspa
Evanston Aspa (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being Evanston Community Foundation ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $106k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $30k
What Evanston Aspa does
Mission
To advance arts and cultural equity for the Asian South Asian and Pacific Islander American ASPA community in Evanston Illinois through community arts programming cultural events and civic engagement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Evanston ASPA advances arts and cultural equity for the Asian South Asian and Pacific Islander American ASPA community in Evanston Illinois. During FY 202425 ASPA carried out three primary programs serving approximately 3,500 participants across 2 community festivals and 7 cultural events: 1 Umbrella Arts Festival A free annual public cultural celebration showcasing AAPI artists artisans performers and community vendors featuring live performances visual art exhibitions culturally inspired food and interactive programming open to all community members. 2 Visible Voices A year-round community arts program offering arts workshops gallery exhibitions author talks panel discussions and storytelling events that amplify AAPI voices and artistic expression in Evanstons cultural landscape. 3 Kitchen Table Stories A quarterly civic engagement and networking series that builds community among AAPI residents and encourages AAPI civic participation and representation in Evanstons cultural and civic institutions. All programs are offered free or at minimal cost to participants and are designed to increase visibility belonging and cultural representation for the ASPIA community in the greater…
$79,777 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $79,777.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Melissa Raman Molitor
Executive Director and Board Member
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Evanston Aspa’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Evanston Aspa'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Evanston Aspa runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Organizations like Evanston Aspa
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Evanston Aspa: 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 Evanston Aspa?
- Evanston Aspa (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being Evanston Community Foundation ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Evanston Aspa have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to Evanston Aspa.
- Who is the largest funder of Evanston Aspa?
- Evanston Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Evanston Aspa find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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