The Asian Community Fund announces 59 new grants to support and strengthen AAPI communities

Boston – The Asian Community Fund at the Boston Foundation (ACF), the first and only fund exclusively dedicated to supporting Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities in Massachusetts, today announced it is distributing $635,000 to 59 organizations, setting a record for the fund’s largest grantmaking docket.

The grants, focused on the theme of uplifting Survival, Solidarity, and Stability and addressing the community’s most urgent needs will support a wide range of efforts, including legal services and advocacy, food insecurity, economic stability, community well-being and belonging. Coupled with last month’s announcement of the ACF’s first-ever AAPI narrative change grants, the new round brings ACF's cumulative grantmaking in 2026 to $750,000, and a total of $2.4 million allocated to 135 community nonprofits since the Fund’s grantmaking launch in 2022.

“The breadth and impact of these 59 organizations highlight the critical work being done across Massachusetts to protect, defend and promote AAPI and immigrant communities in the face of continuing challenges,” said Danielle Kim, Executive Director of the Asian Community Fund. “These organizations are not waiting—they are showing up, every day, with creativity and resilience, to build the community we all deserve. The Asian Community Fund and our remarkable partners and donors are proud to celebrate and invest their vital work to uplift AAPI visibility, power, and belonging.”

"These organizations are not waiting—they are showing up, every day, with creativity and resilience, to build the community we all deserve."

—Danielle Kim, Executive Director, Asian Community Fund

Importantly, 34% of these 59 organizations are first-time ACF grant recipients, and 70 percent have annual budgets under $500,000. Reflecting ACF’s mission to expand access to philanthropy and strengthen the local AAPI nonprofit sector, three-quarters of the grantee partners have 5 or fewer staff, and 31 percent are entirely volunteer-run. Keeping with the community commitment of the program, applications were reviewed by 40 volunteer reviewers, as well as by the ACF’s community-led Advisory Committee. In all, the review team received 126 applications, requesting more than $2.4 million in funding support.

“This cycle highlights two fundamental truths. We are fortunate to live in a region where we can count on the remarkable generosity of our donors and volunteers, sharing their time and investing their resources in support of the Commonwealth’s growing and ever more vibrant AAPI population,” said Paul W. Lee, Chair and Co-Founder of the Asian Community Fund. “However, the record number of applications for funding, from across the state, highlights both the widespread need and the number of community organizations providing support in these difficult times. We are grateful for their work and dedicated to growing our commitment moving forward.”