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12 funders with a record of paying for “aapi”
Where the money went
GofundmeorgWest Hollywood, CACharity · may take applications
115 matching grants · $4.0M · through 2022Largest: $555,000 to GOLD HOUSE FEATURES CHALLENGE — support aapi community
National Coalition for Asian PacificWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
28 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2022Largest: $343,832 to Korean Resource Center — aapi community resilience fund; housing counseling
Largest: $25,000 to WALKING IRIS MEDIA — may 19 aapi solidarity - advancing racial solidarity and health: to promote racial solidarity and positive community health outcomes in california through the arts and digital stor…
Largest: $815,000 to NEW VENTURE FUND — core support for aapi civic engagement fund and project support for institutional strengthening for aapi civic engagement fund
Largest: $300,000 to KARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS — the grant will establish and fund "the peng zhao & cherry chen fund for aapi voices at kartemquin," an initiative that provides support for the next generation of aapi nonfiction s…
North Carolina Asian Americans TogetherRaleigh, NCCharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $400,340 · through 2024Largest: $62,940 to NORTH CAROLINA HMONG WOMENS ASSOCIATION — educate and mobilize api and aapi community members in nc
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $2.2M · through 2024Largest: $500,000 to ASIAN AMERICAN FUTURES — program - to organize aapi communities in california to advocate for lasting change and define their own narrative and ultimately, build a broader constituency of engaged aapi comm…
Largest: $50,000 to CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION FBO AAPI FORCE-EF — one year of project support to advance policies and issues that support working-class aapi communities, engage youth to participate in progressive causes, and increase integrated v…
Asian American Coalition for ChildrenNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $1.0M · through 2023Largest: $180,000 to CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL — develop and pilot healing-centered programs for aapi youth ("hcy") & ("equity")
Largest: $165,000 to CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — for the asian americans and pacific islanders for civic empowerment education fund project to polling, research, and policy development to support aapi civic participation. to supp…
Largest: $150,000 to AAPI Civic Engagement Fund — aapi civic engagement fund
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
7 matching grants · $2.0M · through 2024Largest: $400,000 to ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN PHILANTHROPY — provide general operating support to help the organization advance its mission to advance philanthropy and asian american/pacific islander (aapi) communities by engaging aapi commu…
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →