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ASIAN AMERICANS UNITED

EIN 22-2981076 PHILADELPHIA, PA

Revenue 2025
$1,107,429
Expenses 2025
$1,128,179

Program services were 84.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O50Z
Classification
1000
Street
1023 CALLOWHILL ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

AAU EXISTS SO THAT PEOPLE OF ASIAN ANCESTRY IN PHILADELPHIA EXERCISE LEADERSHIP TO BUILD THEIR COMMUNITIES AND UNITE TO CHALLENGE OPPRESSION. AAU'S ARTS AND CULTURE WORK CREATES SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH 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 EXISTS SO THAT THE 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.

  • SEE SCHEDULE O AAU WORKS DILIGENTLY TO MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY, WHICH IS IMPACTED BY ANTI-ASIAN RACISM AND ATTACKS ON IMMIGRANTS. AAU CONTINUED TO UPLIFT WORKING-CLASS STORIES THROUGH THE "OUR CHINATOWN" STORYTELLING PROJECT, WHICH PROVIDES AN EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE TO HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE NEW TO PHILADELPHIA'S ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY. OUR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT (CE) TEAM CONTINUED TO PROMOTE ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP BY HOSTING CITIZENSHIP CLINICS, SCREENING PEOPLE FOR CITIZENSHIP AND GREEN CARD APPLICATIONS, N- 400, I-90, AND I-912 APPLICATIONS, AND REVIEWING AND REFERRING ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES TO OUR LEGAL PARTNERS FOR ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE. THE CE TEAM ENGAGES COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ARE U.S. CITIZENS TO EXCERCISE THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE BY HOSTING VOTER REGISTRATION EVENTS IN CHINATOWN AND THROUGHOUT THE CITY. THEY CONDUCTED GET OUT THE VOTE EVENTS INCLUDING PHONE BANKING, TEXT BANKING, DOOR KNOCKING AND MAILINGS TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO VOTE, AND POLLING MONITORING TO CONTINUE ENFORCEMENT OF LANGUAGE ACCESS AS REQUIRED UNDER THE FEDEERAL VOTING RIGHTS ACT. AAU ORGANIZED A COLLECTIVE VOICE AND PEOPLE POWER AGAINST DISPLACEMENT THAT THREATENS OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. IN ADDITION TO PROTECTING OUR COMMUNITY, AAU WORKED TO PRESERVE AND CELEBRATE OUR CULTURE AND NURTURE OUR NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS. THROUGH OUR YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS, AAU RAN A SUMMER CAMP SERVING 100+ CHILDREN ACROSS THE CITY; FACILITATED MEETINGS AND BROUGHT THE INCH-BY-INCH GARDEN TO LIFE IN THE SPRING; TAUGHT DOZENS OF ELEMENTARY-SCHOOL YOUTH ABOUT MULTICULTURAL LITERACY AND EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION; AND RALLIED FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND AGAINST DISCRIMINATION IN EDUCATION. THE CHINESE YOUTH ORGANIZING PROJECT (CYOP) HELD IN-PERSON MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR PROVIDING SAFE SPACES FOR IMMIGRANT YOUTH TO EXPLORE ISSUES IMPORTANT TO THEM. CYOP SUMMER YOUTH UNCOVERED HIDDEN STORIES AND CREATED CAPSTONE PROJECTS. OVER 300 YOUTH VOLUNTEERED AT THE 30TH ANNUAL MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL, AND OVER 20 YOUTH SERVED AS LEAD COORDINATORS OF THE FESTIVAL, WHICH FEATURED CULTURAL HERITAGE PERFORMANCES, ARTS ACTIVITIES, CARNIVAL FOLK GAMES, RESOURCE INFORMATION AND CULMINATED WITH OUR LANTERN PARADE. AAU CELEBRATED 40 YEARS OF SERVING THE COMMUNITY AND GROWING LEADERSHIP IN EACH GENERATION. FROM IMMIGRANT JUSTICE TO CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, FROM WORKERS' RIGHTS TO EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT, FROM SAVING CHINATOWN TO BUILDING ALTERNATIVE VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE, AAU IS ENTERING THE NEXT DECADE EMPOWERED BY THE FOUNDATIONAL ORGANIZNG WE HAVE DONE AND THE RELATIONSHIPS THAT SUSTAIN US.

    Expenses $953,593 · Revenue $163,011

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • VIVIAN CHANG

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $80,418
    From this org
    $72,692
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,726
    Hours/week
    40

  • NEETA PATEL

    INTERIM PRES

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JENNY CHEN

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • TERESA ENGST

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • HUIDAN MEI

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RENYU WU

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AISHIKA JENNELA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SYMBOL LAI

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ALIX WEBB

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JENNY ZHANG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANNIE LO

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,107,429
    Expenses
    $1,128,179
    Contributions
    $901,933
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $798,295
    Expenses
    $644,720
    Contributions
    $737,056
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $915,245
    Expenses
    $503,668
    Contributions
    $840,947
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,018,245
    Expenses
    $428,976
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,252,917

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $563,861
    Expenses
    $341,885
    Assets (EOY)
    $654,891

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $412,567
    Expenses
    $352,881
    Assets (EOY)
    $432,555

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $380,813
    Expenses
    $291,573
    Assets (EOY)
    $371,762

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $326,439
    Expenses
    $260,513
    Assets (EOY)
    $281,387

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $325,409
    Expenses
    $246,224
    Assets (EOY)
    $215,459

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $280,802
    Expenses
    $244,420
    Assets (EOY)
    $136,240

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $307,551
    Expenses
    $288,975
    Assets (EOY)
    $105,286

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.