Chinese Progressive Association

About Chinese Progressive Association

The Chinese Progressive Association’s recent grantmaking is anchored by Black civic participation and organizing, even though the organization’s own roots are in educating and organizing low-income and working-class immigrant Chinese communities. In 2023, it made a $4.5 million grant to Center for Empowered Politics for Black to the Future, followed by a $301,919 grant to the same grantee in 2024. Those awards sit alongside a broader set of grants supporting movement-building, basebuilding, and leadership development across communities of color. The foundation also funds work connected to Asian American community organizing. In 2025, it awarded $150,000 grants to Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Asian Americans United, New Virginia Majority Education Fund, Southeast Asian Coalition (seac Village), Community Partners, and Arab American Action Network, all described as support for basebuilding and leadership development. Its portfolio also includes grants to organizations working on programmatic, educational, and shared-work efforts, including Chinese for Affirmative Action and Race Forward. Across the recent grants list, the foundation appears to use large strategic awards alongside mid-sized grants to sustain organizing infrastructure and leadership pipelines.

What Chinese Progressive Association Funds

A major thread is Black organizing and civic participation. The foundation gave $250,000 to Black Voters Matter Fund for Bay Resistance Institute and Seeding Change Fellowship grants, and $250,000 to State Democracy Project for Black Organizing Innovations. It also supported Equity & Transformation, Power Coalition for Equity & Justice, and Women Engaged under the same Black organizing portfolio. Another clear area is Asian American movement building. Chinese for Affirmative Action received a $103,128 programmatic grant, while Asian Pacific Environmental Network received $96,606 for educational work in 2023 and $150,000 in 2025 for basebuilding and leadership development. Worker-centered organizing appears as well: Filipino Workers Center of Southern California received $75,430, and Filipino Advocates for Justice received $64,424 for elections-related regranting. The foundation also backs cross-organizational collaboration. Race Forward received $80,000 for shared work between Race Forward and CPA.

How Chinese Progressive Association Gives