Asian Americans United Inc

Overview

Mission

Asian americans united (aau) exists so that people of asian ancestry in the philadelphia area exercise leadership to build their communities and unite to challenge oppression. Aau's arts and culture work creates social change by engaging community members in: building leadership and community, realizing community members' inherent artistic and creative potential, and building pride in cultural heritage. Aau's youth work supports youth become individually, socially, and politically aware; exercise their voice; and participate in active struggles for justice. Through this work, we create leaders who sustain, fight for, and give back to our communities.

What it reported doing in 2024

See schedule o aau works diligently to meet the needs of our community, which which continues to face anti-asian racism and xenophobia. We advance narrative change to fight the model minority myth, such as by highlighting the working-class stories through the "our chinatown" storytelling project that provides an experiential learning experience. Our civc engagement program promotes active citizenship by hosting citizenship clinics, and reviewing and referring eligible candidates to our legal partners for additional assistance. The program engages u.s. Citizens to excercise their right to vote by hosting voter registration events, conducting get out the vote work to encourage people to vote, and polling monitoring to continue enforcement of language access as required under the fedeeral voting rights act. Our renewed immigration program provides much-needed support to impacted people and families. We organize a collective voice and people power against displacement, most recently in opposition to the proposed 76ers arena that threatens our precious chinatown neighborhood. Aau convened hundreds of allies and supporters across city council hearings, town hall meetings, educational teach-ins, artistic and cultural events, and other grassroots organizing to push back and defend chinatown's very existence. We anchoring the successful "no arena in the heart of our city" coalition that worked with partners across the entire city and is continuing to develop new visions for fighting displacement of communities of color and working-class communities. In addition to community activations, aau's work centers on nurturing the next generation of leaders. Through our youth leadership programs, aau youth advocates for immigrant rights and against discrimination in education; mobilized hundreds of youth peers against the arena; highlighted chinatown stories; facilitated workshops and community meetings with powerful decision-makers; testified before city council and the mayor; and taught dozens of elementary-school youth about multicultural literacy and education for liberation. The chinese youth organizing project (cyop) continues to provide safe spaces for immigrant youth to explore issues important to them. Over 300 youth volunteered at the 29th annual mid-autumn festival, which featured folk arts and cultural performances, arts activities, carnival games, community resources, and culminating lantern parade.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
222981076
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Headquarters
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phone
2159251538
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Official website

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 62
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 54.1%; rating input score 54
  • Program expense ratio: 77.7%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $14.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 32.7%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.68; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.7%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 28.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 54.1% of revenue deployed · 77.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $625K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $77K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 10 annual filings from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • VIVIAN CHANG (EXECUTIVE DI): $77,168 total reported compensation
  • NEETA PATEL JAN-FEB (INTERIM E.D.): $17,121 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.