Asian American Futures
Irvine, CA · EIN 85-4191419. Reported 70 grants totalling $4,419,000 to 54 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Asian American Futures, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 54 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 20% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $26,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $300,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $460,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Kutturan Chamoru Foundation | Long Beach, CA | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chinese for Affirmative Action | San Francisco, CA | $185,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chinese Progressive Association | Oakland, CA | $169,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jakara Movement | Fresno, CA | $160,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Pilipino Workers Center of Southern | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Samoan Solutions | Burlingame, CA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Viet Rainbow of Orange County | Buena Park, CA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Every Voice Texas | Austin, TX | $111,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Api Rise | Los Angeles, CA | $101,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Anamatangi Polynesian Voices | E Palo Alto, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Asian American Womens Political Initiative Inc | East Boston, MA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Asian Pacific American Leadership Institute | Cupertino, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marshallese Youth of Orange County | Santa Ana, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pacific Islander Health Partnership | Santa Ana, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Samoan Community Development Center Incorporated | San Francisco, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Taulama for Tongans | San Mateo, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tofa of Sacramento Inc | Sacramento, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Young Serving All Mankind Our Alofa Samoa | San Bernardino, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Asian American Journalists Association | Washington, DC | $76,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc | Norcross, GA | $76,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Asian Mental Health Collective | Houston, TX | $76,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| She Who Has No Masters | Portland, OR | $76,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote Inc | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Austin Asian American Film Festival | Austin, TX | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund | Oakland, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship | Oneonta, NY | $51,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Transformative Action | Ithaca, NY | $51,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Desi Rainbow Parents & Allies | Edison, NJ | $51,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Red Canary Song | Washington, DC | $51,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Residential Youth Services & Empowerment | Honolulu, HI | $51,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Urban Village Inc | Saint Paul, MN | $51,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Asian Law Caucus | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Asian Americans United for Self-Empowerment Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kuaaina Ulu Auamo | Kaneohe, HI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Territories of Pacific Islanders Washington-Utopia Wa | Kent, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mockingbird Incubator | Los Angeles, CA | $41,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gold House Foundation Inc | Covina, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fulcrum Arts | Pasadena, CA | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| MN8 | Saint Paul, MN | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Possibility Labs | San Francisco, CA | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Purple Maia Foundation | Honolulu, HI | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Robert Gumbiner Foundation | Long Beach, CA | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sead Project | Minneapolis, MN | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Transplanting Traditions Community | Chapel Hill, NC | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Asian Media Access | Minneapolis, MN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ma Ka Hana Ka Ike Building Program | Hana, HI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Asian Americans Together | Raleigh, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Legal Clinic | Honolulu, HI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ohio Voice | Columbus, OH | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hawaii Childrens Action Network | Honolulu, HI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Indiana Democracy Collective Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vietrise | Garden Grove, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
11 of 54 (20%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Community Partners
ACTIVATE CALIFORNIA GRANT - EPIC/CVPIA/VIGILANT LOVE - Api Rise
GOLD FUTURES CHALLENGE GRANT - Every Voice Texas Dba Asian Texans for Justice
2022 GFC GRANT - EVERY VOICE TEXAS DBA ASIAN TEXANS FOR JUSTICE - Chinese for Affirmative Action
ACTIVATE CALIFORNIA GRANT - HMONG INNOVATING POLITICS - Chinese Progressive Association
ACTIVATE CALIFORNIA GRANT - SEEDING CHANGE - Jakara Movement
ACTIVATE CALIFORNIA GRANT - JAKARA MOVEMENT
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 47 of 54 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 11 | $519,000 | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 18 | $1,510,000 | $88,000 |
| 2023 | 25 | $1,557,000 | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 16 | $833,000 | $50,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
70% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
13 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 32 grants totalling $5,363,342 to Asian American Futures. That is 41% of the 32 funders we can see giving to it. Those 13 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a grantmaking organization.
9 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The California Endowment | California | $1,300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Evelyn and Walter Haas JR Fund | California | $1,261,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation | California | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The James Irvine Foundation | California | $817,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Long Family Foundation | California | $216,332 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hsia Family Foundation | New Jersey | $201,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Tarsadia Foundation | California | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tsao Family Foundation | California | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Sun Family Foundation | California | $85,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Harry and Masie Masto Foundation | California | $72,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
The 10 largest by reported dollars, of 13.
A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Asian American Futures's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 16 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 15333 Culver Drive Ste 340-2181, Irvine, CA, 92604.
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