Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,900,750 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($1,000,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What National Asian Pacific American Bar Association does
Mission
The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (napaba) serves as the national voice for the asian pacific american ("apa") legal profession. Napaba promotes justice, equity, and opportunity for asian american, native hawaiian, and pacific islander communities. Napaba fosters professional development, legal scholarship, advocacy, and community involvement.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Napaba organizes a multi-day annual convention every fall to provide its members with professional development, leadership, and networking opportunities. The convention features numerous panels and plenary sessions with continuing legal education accreditation, as well as special programming related to the legal profession and the asian american, native hawaiian, and pacific islander (aanhpi) community. In addition, napaba hosts committee and network business meetings and receptions that foster the exchange of ideas, strengthen connections across practice areas and affinity groups, and advance the work of its membership.
$1,991,885 spentof which $91,990 as grants65% of program spendingNapaba advocates on issues important to the asian american, native hawaiian, and pacific islander (aanhpi) legal community by representing the views of its membership. Its policy work promotes equal opportunity, access to justice, and civil rights protections through education, coalition building, and direct engagement with policymakers. Additionally, napaba tracks and analyzes legislation and executive actions, submits comment letters, and joins amicus briefs. A key advocacy initiative is napaba's annual lobby day in washington, d.c., where members receive training and education on issues of concern to the legal profession and aanhpi community, including napaba's legislative priorities. Napaba also facilitates meetings between members and their respective elected officials. Topics generally included anti-asian hate, civil rights, immigration, and judicial nominations.
$588,473 spent19% of program spendingNapaba offers a variety of professional development, leadership, networking, mentoring, and pipeline programs that support asian pacific american attorneys at every stage of their careers. Signature initiatives include the in-house counsel summit, the partners summit, and the leadership advancement program. Napaba also provides cle-accredited trainings and webinars, mentorship opportunities, and networking events.in addition to its professional programming, napaba engages in advocacy on issues impacting the aanhpi community throughout the year. They include anti-asian hate, civil rights, and immigration. These efforts, together with napaba's annual convention and year-round initiatives, ensure meaningful opportunities for connection, advancement, and impact within the legal profession and beyond.
$331,679 spentof which $30,230 as grants11% of program spendingNapaba is a membership organization representing the interests of more than 80,000 attorneys, judges, law professors, and law students. Membership is comprised of individual members and over 90 affiliated bar associations located across the united states, canada, and u.s. Territories. Together, this network advances napaba's vision: to achieve optimal representation, success, and influence of aanhpi attorneys in every facet and level of the legal profession and beyond.
$142,214 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,054,251.
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.
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 $3.9M to $5.3M (+35%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Priya Puranare
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $8k → $550k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $26k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Napaba Law Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION’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
NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 47% · 2023 45% — 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
NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Government funding NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17k on record — $16k federal, $990 state.
- Department of Defense$16k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$990
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.
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In Washington, D.C.
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Napaba Law Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,900,750 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($1,000,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,900,750 in grants to NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION?
- OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION 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.
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 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