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NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM
NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM (Illinois) receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,398,494 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($16,790,359). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.7M
- Funders on record
- 97
- Grants received
- $45M
- Net assets
- $22M
What National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum does
Mission
Build collective power with asian american and pacific islander (aapi) women and girls so that we can have full agency over our lives, our families, and our communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
During 2023, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum began the intersections program. The intersections of our lives is a collaborative of three organizations representing women of color focused on addressing civil rights, justice, reproductive health and equality issues. Since 2016, national latina institute for reproductive justice (latina institute), napawf, and in our own voice: national black women's reproductive justice agenda (in our own voice), three women-of-color led national reproductive justice organizations with both d.c. And statewide presence, have intentionally collaborated with one another on policy and issue actions.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Field organizing - organizing aapi women nationally, with staff in new york, georgia, illinois, florida, texas, and washington dc, to learn more about issues of reproductive rights and health, economic justice, and immigrant rights, and to speak up on behalf of their communities for policy changes. Engaging with registered and potential voters to encourage them to participate in voting in all elections and educating themselves and others in learning about issues and candidates.
$1,602,626 spent47% of program spendingStrategic communications - providing thought leadership through writing and placing op-eds in the media, amplifying the voices of aapi women leaders who speak out about important issues. Participating in ongoing conversation, online and in news sources, about the issues that impact aapi women.
$1,025,388 spent$9,850 earned by the program30% of program spendingPolicy - researching and advocating around policies impacting reproductive health and rights, and racial and economic justice, developing and advancing policies that protect the rights of all aapi women and girls, relating with and educating policy makers regarding the well-being of aapi women and girls. Most policy work is federal, but napawf also monitors and speaks to state-level and local policies impacting aapi women and girls.
$442,900 spent13% of program spendingMovement building - strengthening relationships with organizations that work in strategic movement spaces to advance our mission, working together for our common goals. These partnerships range from asian american community-based organizations, economic and worker justice organizations, and reproductive justice and rights partner organizations.
$243,970 spent7% of program spendingResearch - our efforts to amplify the needs of aapi women in the policy and advocacy space require that we share data which highlight their unique experiences and provide the evidence necessary to advocate for systemic changes. To this effect, one of the greatest challenges we face is the lack of representative and disaggregated data for aapis on topics ranging from healthcare access to pay parity. Because of this gaping hole in research on the fastest growing racial group in the us, napawf has needed to conduct its own research to provide data to support our policy, advocacy, and community organizing. We also work with our members on the ground in our analysis of their lived experiences, inform them of issues, and utilize their base networks to disseminate messages and education.
$81,067 spent2% of program spendingIntersections the intersections of our lives is a collaborative of three organizations representing women of color focused on addressing civil rights, justice, reproductive health and equality issues. Since 2016, national latina institute for reproductive justice (latina institute), napawf, and in our own voice: national black women's reproductive justice agenda (in our own voice), three women-of-color led national reproductive justice organizations with both d.c. And statewide presence, have intentionally collaborated with one another on policy and issue actions.
$17,947 spent1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,413,898.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $9.8M to $16M (+64%).
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.
93% of NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Sung Yeon Choimorrow
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 38 funders, grant income rose $50k → $8.8M.
26 of 97 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 97 funders by total. 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 WOMEN'S FORUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
37% 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 WOMEN'S FORUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 38% · 2019 34% · 2020 37% · 2021 21% · 2022 34% · 2023 34% — 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
58% of NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM
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.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM?
- NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM (Illinois) receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,398,494 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($16,790,359). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM have?
- IRS filings report 97 organizations giving $45,398,494 in grants to NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM?
- THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,790,359 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 97 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing