What AAPI Equity Alliance does

AAPI Equity Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit coalition organization headquartered at 905 E 8th St, Los Angeles, California (Tax ID 71-0879827). Founded in 1976 as the "Asian Lunch Bunch" and formerly known as A3PCON, the organization is dedicated to improving the lives of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders through civic engagement, capacity building, and policy advocacy on behalf of the approximately 1.6 million AAPIs residing in Los Angeles County. It operates through a coalition of more than 50 member community-based organizations and a paid staff of 1–10 led by Executive Director Manjusha (Manju) Kulkarni, with additional senior leadership including a Deputy Director, Directors of External Affairs, Finance and Administration, and Government Affairs, a Program Director, Civic Engagement Consultant, and Communications Manager.

The organization's programmatic portfolio centers on anti-hate work, health equity, and civic participation. Its flagship offering is Stop AAPI Hate, co-founded in 2020 with Chinese for Affirmative Action and San Francisco State University's Asian American Studies Department, which operates as the nation's largest reporting center tracking anti-AAPI hate incidents. Other programs include the HOPE (Healing Our People Through Engagement) culturally-centered healing program, Stop the Hate LA (a regional CDSS-funded initiative supporting 42 community partners), the Community Health Worker Outreach Initiative (CHWOI), a Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative in partnership with Blue Shield of California, COVID-19 health grants, voter guides and the AAPI Resume Bank, and multilingual resource guides (including an LA Wildfires Resource Guide in six languages). Research partnerships with UCLA's Asian American Studies Center, Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, and Latino Policy & Politics Institute co-produce data briefs. Revenues are generated through charitable donations, foundation grants, government pass-through funding (notably CDSS for Stop the Hate LA), and earned media-driven fundraising rather than commercial product sales; no pricing model applies.

Since 2020, Stop AAPI Hate has collected roughly 11,000–13,000 hate-incident reports, and Stop the Hate programs have reportedly assisted over 22 million Californians between 2022 and 2025. Recognition includes the 2021 Webby Social Movement of the Year, 2021 TIME100 and Bloomberg 50 honors for the Stop AAPI Hate co-founders, and the 2024 James Irvine Leadership Award to Executive Director Kulkarni. The organization is currently positioning around its 50th anniversary (2026), with a "AAPI Power: Democracy in Action" Policy Summit and "50 Years of Leadership & Legacy" Anniversary Gala as milestone events.

Name

AAPI Equity Alliance

Legal name

AAPI Equity Alliance

Website

https://aapiequityalliance.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1976

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

AAPI Equity Alliance is a Los Angeles-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit coalition of 50+ member organizations serving 1.6 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in LA County through civic engagement, policy advocacy, and anti-hate programs including the co-founded Stop AAPI Hate reporting center.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Advocacy and Civic Engagement

NAICS

Human Rights Organizations (813311), Other Social Advocacy Organizations (813319), Civic and Social Organizations (813410)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Racial & Ethnic Justice Organizations (BPAGAFAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Human Rights & Anti-Discrimination Organizations (BPAGAFAB), Public Health & Health Equity Organizations (BPAGACAL)

Keywords

• Community advocacy coalition
• Civic engagement services
• Hate incident reporting
• AAPI policy advocacy
• Community capacity building

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Contributions: AAPI Equity Alliance is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (Tax ID: 71-0879827). The primary revenue stream is charitable donations from individuals, foundations, and institutional donors. Donations are tax-deductible. The organization also accepts checks and PayPal contributions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

AAPI Equity Alliance is a coalition of 50+ community-based organizations serving approximately 1.6 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Los Angeles County and beyond. Its core offerings include the Stop AAPI Hate hate-incident reporting center (co-founded with Chinese for Affirmative Action and San Francisco State University), the HOPE community healing program, Stop the Hate LA regional initiative (supporting 42 community partners), voter education and civic engagement programs, the Community Health Worker Outreach Initiative, the Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative, COVID-19 health grants, and multilingual resource guides delivered through member organizations.

Product overview

AAPI Equity Alliance is a nonprofit coalition organization (formerly A3PCON) that operates as a unified advocacy platform rather than a technology product company. The organization's core offerings consist of community programs including Stop AAPI Hate (a hate incident reporting center), HOPE (a community healing program), Stop the Hate LA regional initiative, health outreach programs, domestic violence prevention, COVID-19 response, voter engagement tools, and multilingual resource guides. These are community service programs rather than software products with technical integrations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Stop AAPI Hate: A U.S.-based coalition co-founded with Chinese for Affirmative Action and San Francisco State University in 2020, dedicated to ending racism and discrimination against AAPIs and serving as the nation's largest reporting center tracking anti-AAPI hate acts.

Products and services

• Stop AAPI Hate A coalition and reporting center co-founded with Chinese for Affirmative Action and San Francisco State University to track and respond to acts of hate against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders nationwide. Serves AAPI community members experiencing hate incidents and produces authoritative data for advocacy and policy.
• HOPE (Healing Our People Through Engagement) A culturally-centered community healing program that helps Asian American communities respond to past and ongoing racism and hate crimes through community-based group support, serving five major Asian American ethnic communities.
• Stop the Hate LA A regional program under California's Stop the Hate initiative, in which AAPI Equity Alliance serves as the LA County Regional Lead and supports 42 community partners delivering prevention, intervention, and direct survivor support services to AAPI communities in Los Angeles County.
• Community Health Worker Outreach Initiative (CHWOI) A health outreach initiative that connects AAPI communities with culturally and linguistically appropriate health resources and services through community health workers.
• Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative A program that addresses domestic violence within AAPI communities through culturally appropriate prevention education and survivor support services, partnered with Blue Shield of California.
• COVID-19 Health Initiatives Grants and resources supporting AAPI communities during the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing health, language access, and economic relief needs.
• Voter Guide & Civic Engagement Nonpartisan voter education resources and civic engagement initiatives, including voter guides for local and statewide elections, the AAPI Resume Bank, policy advocacy, and the 'Your Vote. Your Power.' civic engagement program.
• LA Wildfires Resource Guide A multilingual emergency resource guide available in English, traditional and simplified Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese, providing critical information for AAPI communities affected by the 2025 LA wildfires.
• AAPI Nonprofit Database A searchable database of AAPI-serving nonprofit organizations, providing a community reference and connection tool for residents, member organizations, and partners.

Quantifiable outcome

• 11,000+ hate incident reports collected and published by Stop AAPI Hate coalition
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

20 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• California Department of Social Services (CDSS)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021AAPI Equity Alliance serves as the Stop the Hate Los Angeles County Regional Lead in partnership with CDSS, administering grant funding to 42 community partners in LA County and contributing to a statewide network of 180 community-based organizations.
• Chinese for Affirmative ActioncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020AAPI Equity Alliance co-founded Stop AAPI Hate with Chinese for Affirmative Action and San Francisco State University in 2020, creating the nation's largest center for tracking acts of hate against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
• San Francisco State University — Asian American Studies DepartmentcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate coalition alongside AAPI Equity Alliance and Chinese for Affirmative Action. The academic department contributes research expertise and data analysis capabilities to the hate tracking and reporting initiative.
• The Center at Sierra Health Foundation (Stop the Hate Northern California Regional Lead)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Center at Sierra Health Foundation serves as the Stop the Hate Northern California Regional and Statewide Lead, partnering with AAPI Equity Alliance's LA County regional lead role to coordinate the statewide Stop the Hate initiative.
• Stop the Hate Partner Organizations (180 CBOs statewide)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner180 community-based organizations across California receive Stop the Hate funding and participate in the statewide anti-hate network coordinated by AAPI Equity Alliance and regional leads.
• Stop the Hate LA Partner Organizations (42 CBOs in LA County)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner42 community-based organizations in Los Angeles County participate in Stop the Hate LA, helping Angelenos overcome hate through prevention, intervention, and direct survivor support services.
• Blue Shield of California (Domestic Violence Prevention)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBlue Shield of California partners with AAPI Equity Alliance on the Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative, providing funding and support for culturally appropriate domestic violence prevention services in AAPI communities.
• UCLA Asian American Studies CenterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partner that collaborated with AAPI Equity Alliance on a data brief examining the unique language barriers and challenges faced by Asian American communities during the 2025 LA wildfires.
• UCLA Center for Neighborhood KnowledgeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partner that co-authored data briefs with AAPI Equity Alliance on Asian American language needs during the LA wildfires and broader demographic research on AAPI communities.
• UCLA Latino Policy & Politics InstituteminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partner that collaborated with AAPI Equity Alliance on data briefs examining the impacts of the January 2025 LA wildfires on diverse racial and ethnic communities.
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern CaliforniacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization and key advocacy partner providing immigration legal services and community support. Connie Chung Joe, CEO, frequently speaks alongside AAPI Equity Alliance at press conferences and community events.
• Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization that provides community services and has joined AAPI Equity Alliance in denouncing ICE raids and advocating for immigrant communities in Little Tokyo and beyond.
• Thai Community Development Center (Thai CDC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization (Thai CDC) that mobilized during the LA wildfires to deliver 300 meals and 20+ emergency kits to Thai-speaking seniors, and distributes Know Your Rights materials in Thai throughout Thai Town.
• Center for Asian Americans United for Self Empowerment (CAUSE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization whose Executive Director Nancy Yap was appointed to the LA County Governance Reform Task Force, representing AAPI communities in county governance reform efforts.
• API RISEminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGodfrey Plata, Civic Engagement Consultant at AAPI Equity Alliance, also works with API RISE, which organizes formerly incarcerated and detained members of the API community.
• LA vs HatecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLA County's anti-hate program with which AAPI Equity Alliance partners on the Stop the Hate LA regional initiative and United Against Hate Week campaigns.
• CA vs HatecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStatewide anti-hate network partnered with AAPI Equity Alliance on United Against Hate Week and Stop the Hate CA initiatives.
• Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of LA (CHIRLA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAAPI Equity Alliance stands in solidarity with CHIRLA in denouncing ICE raids and advocating for immigrant rights, with Oscar Zarate from CHIRLA participating in joint press conferences.
• Catalyst CaliforniaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJohn Kim, President & CEO of Catalyst California, joined AAPI Equity Alliance's press conference denouncing ICE raids, representing the organization in coalition advocacy efforts.
• Not in Our TownminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational nonprofit partnered with AAPI Equity Alliance and LA vs Hate for the annual United Against Hate Week launch event in Los Angeles.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Regional players

• Asian American Federation: New York-based federation of AAPI-serving nonprofits similar in coalition structure and capacity-building function to AAPI Equity Alliance, but focused on the East Coast AAPI community rather than Los Angeles.

Direct peers

• OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates: National AAPI advocacy organization promoting civil rights, civic participation, and community leadership. Comparable as a national AAPI coalition using chapter-based organizing similar in structure to AAPI Equity Alliance's member-org coalition model.
• Japanese American Citizens League (JACL): One of the oldest AAPI civil rights organizations in the U.S., focused on anti-hate advocacy, redress, and civic engagement. Highly comparable mission and historical positioning, with parallel anti-discrimination and language-access work.
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California: Member organization of AAPI Equity Alliance and a primary regional AAPI legal/civil rights counterpart in LA. Both organizations share civic engagement, policy advocacy, and language-access mandates for LA's diverse AAPI communities.
• Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA): AAPI labor and civil rights advocacy organization within the AFL-CIO. Comparable in combining AAPI-targeted policy advocacy, organizing, and coalition-driven civic engagement with federally and state-funded programming.
• National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA): National coalition of AAPI civil rights, advocacy, and community-based organizations. Directly comparable to AAPI Equity Alliance as a coalition-of-coalitions model aggregating AAPI nonprofit capacity for federal policy influence.
• Chinese for Affirmative Action: Co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate alongside AAPI Equity Alliance and San Francisco State University. A San Francisco-based AAPI civil rights organization focused on immigrant rights, language access, and anti-Asian hate—directly comparable in mission, scale, and coalition-building model.
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Washington D.C.): National AAPI civil rights organization focused on policy advocacy, litigation, and civic empowerment—directly comparable in mission to AAPI Equity Alliance's advocacy work but operating at the federal rather than regional level.
• The Center at Sierra Health Foundation: Statewide/regional lead for California's Stop the Hate initiative and a direct implementation partner to AAPI Equity Alliance. Comparable in administering state-funded anti-hate grants and convening CBOs across California's diverse communities.

Emerging players

• APIA Scholars: National AAPI nonprofit focused on education equity, scholarships, and AAPI representation—comparable in mission and donor-base overlap with AAPI Equity Alliance's civic engagement and resume-bank work, though primarily youth/education-focused.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/AAPIEquity
• Facebookfacebook.com/AAPIEquityAlliance
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/aapi-equity-alliance
• Instagraminstagram.com/aapiequityalliance

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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