Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote
Overview
Mission
It is the mission of APIAVote to encourage and promote civic participation of Asian Pacific Islander Americans in the electoral and public processes at the national, state, and local levels. APIAVote also aims to educate and inform Asian and Pacific Islander American citizens in the United States, on a nonpartisan basis, to register and exercise their right to vote in federal, state, and local elections for public offices and to participate in the political process.
What it reported doing in 2025
Outreach - APIAVote empowers and supports its nationwide network of partner organizations through hosting or attending conferences, events and meetings to further our mission of empowering Asian American and Pacific Islander AAPI communities to strengthen and sustain a culture of civic engagement. This also includes meetings with potential partners to educate them on being a part of APIAVote's vast network, as well as attending community events to further our relationship building in the AAPI nonprofit space. We also worked in coalition with more than 50 nonprofits, multicultural partners, influencers, celebrities, and community leaders to host the Unity March, a national effort to build a solidarity movement following the rise in violence against Asian Americans.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 86% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030575412
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2013
- Headquarters
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2022239170
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Voter Education, Registration
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 86.8%; rating input score 87; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -154.4%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.72; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.7%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $2.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $270K · 12 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $330K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 annual filings from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 19 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 15 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Christine Chen (Executive Dir.): $270,284 total reported compensation
- Kevin Hirano (Director): $167,643 total reported compensation
- Hiroaki R Sakaniwa (Director Policy): $126,300 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2025.