Asian Law Caucus
San Francisco, CA · EIN 94-2176139. Reported 89 grants totalling $6,146,980 to 57 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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 Law Caucus, the IRS classifies it under crime & legal rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE I83Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 57 distinct organizations, with 16% 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. 43% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $40,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $80,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $394,124. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese for Affirmative Action | San Francisco, CA | $975,111 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Fresno Center | Fresno, CA | $820,880 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jubilee Immigration Advocates | San Francisco, CA | $736,787 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc | Chicago, IL | $506,250 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta | Norcross, GA | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mission Action Inc | San Francisco, CA | $265,920 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Neo Philanthropy Inc | New York, NY | $155,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Restore Oakland Inc | Oakland, CA | $142,515 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Asian Americans United | Philadelphia, PA | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New York Taxi Workers Alliance Inc | Long Is City, NY | $105,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice | Oakland, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| One Arizona | Phoenix, AZ | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| State Power Fund | Youngstown, OH | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Asian American Coalition for Children and Families Inc | New York, NY | $95,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Center for Workers Rights | Sacramento, CA | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Every Voice Texas | Austin, TX | $81,225 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Asian Community Development Council | Las Vegas, NV | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chinese Progressive Association | Oakland, CA | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pilipino Workers Center of Southern | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Urban Affairs Coalition | Philadelphia, PA | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cair-Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $57,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alliance for Global Justice | Tucson, AZ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Sikh Coalition Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tckidnow Third Culture Kids Navigating Our Worlds in Comm | Converse, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants Inc - Ceri | Oakland, CA | $48,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans | San Diego, CA | $47,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Jakara Movement | Fresno, CA | $46,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Asian Pacific Environmental Network | Oakland, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Freedom Inc | Madison, WI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity | Oakland, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jakara Movement | Fresno, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Narika | Fremont, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ohio Voice | Columbus, OH | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Refugee & Immigrant Transitions | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cair Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $32,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice | Woodside, NY | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Manforward | Coon Rapids, MN | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Proteus Fund Inc | Waltham, MA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Asian American Resource Workshop Inc | Dorchester, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| North Carolina Asian Americans Together | Raleigh, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| South Asian Americans Leading Together Inc | Silver Springs, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Council on American-Islamic Relations California | Anaheim, CA | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Council on American Islamic Relations of Arizona | Chandler, AZ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Santa Clara County Asian Law Alliance Inc | San Jose, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Center for Empowered Politics | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Works West Inc | Oakland, CA | $18,292 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Asian Youth Center | San Gabriel, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Island Liaison Inc | Phoenix, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Korean Resource Center Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Hana Center | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tak Kei Wong | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Initiatives | Oakland, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
20 of 57 (35%) 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.
- Chinese for Affirmative Action
CDSS API Capacity Project pursuant to Grant - National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc
Affiliation anti-Asian hate funding pool subgrant to Woori juntos c/o NKASEC - The Fresno Center
For services provided under CDSS API Capacity Project pursuant Grant Agreement No. SG-ISF-20-0098 - Jubilee Immigration Advocates
For services provided under CDSS API Capacity Project pursuant to Grant Agreement No. SG-ISF-20-0098 - Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta
Open Society Fund Subgrant - Restore Oakland Inc
CDSS Transformative grant
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 51 of 57 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 12 | $802,912 | $28,500 |
| 2021 | 44 | $2,527,422 | $40,000 |
| 2022 | 14 | $1,380,105 | $100,000 |
| 2023 | 19 | $1,436,541 | $30,000 |
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
63% 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.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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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 $40,000 -- 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 Law Caucus's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 19 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: 55 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94111.
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