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PARTNERS ASIA

EIN 45-4855118 OAKLAND, CA

Revenue 2025
$8,235,919
Expenses 2025
$6,995,375

Program services were 90.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A70
Classification
1000
Street
436 14TH ST STE 411

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

At Partners Asia, we build relationships with innovative organizers in these communities and with international donors, bridging the gap between local leaders and global resources.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Partners Asia supports community initiatives to improve the lives of the most vulnerable among the people of Myanmar. Many of these people live in unstable areas within Myanmar and along its borders, where they are at risk of displacement and exploitation. (continued p.2)

  • Advocacy & PeaceNeeds and opportunities vary greatly from one place to the next so Partners Asia seeks out and backs trusted local partners who identify appropriate solutions together with their communities. Our partners and their informal networks aspire to alleviate suffering and increase meaningful participation of communities in decision making, assistance in navigating access to legal services (birth registration, work permits, legal documentation, employee rights) and access to information via independent media.Continued on Schedule O

    Expenses $3,042,290 · Grants $2,656,325

  • Community DevelopmentPartners Asia directly engages local leaders and community-based groups, in rural and urban areas as well as along borders to address poverty and lack of education with a view of a brighter future for struggling communities.Related to community development, Partners Asia's partners' work in in the areas of economic empowerment, formal and non-formal schooling, and free medical care for poor migrants unrecognized as refugees.

    Expenses $2,050,191 · Grants $1,518,790

  • Gender EqualityTo advance gender equity and support the rights, safety, leadership, and well-being of women, girls, and LGBTQI+ individuals across Southeast Asia.How: Partners Asia provides grants, capacity strengthening, and learning opportunities to organizations working to address gender-based violence, discrimination, economic inequality, exclusion from decision making, and barriers to education, health, and human rights. The organization also supports women-led and LGBTQI+ led initiatives and movements.

    Expenses $549,863

  • EducationMigrant children and those who live in rural areas or city slums often have limited access to education; we want them in school and for their schooling to count. How: Access to a basic education is not assured for many children in the communities we reach. We support non-formal schools in refugee settlements, city slums, monasteries, and even in plantations all to help prevent children from getting lost amid the ethnic tensions and displacements. Beyond the classrooms, we back efforts to standardize accreditation so that children who study in non-formal schools can have their education recognized in both Thailand and Myanmar. Keeping children in school deters human trafficking, labor exploitation, early marriage, and the cycle of poverty.

    Expenses $478,600 · Grants $426,882

  • Partners Asia worked with local groups and informal networks of community organizations all around Myanmar (Burma), implementing projects with the shared goal of strengthening civil society among the most marginalized. Opportunities, risks, and needs vary greatly in different communities, so Partners Asia backs trusted local partners who identify appropriate solutions, with projects addressing formal and non-formal education, women and child health, gender equality, village infrastructure, and legal rights for the disadvantaged. Partners Asia also funded community-led research, supported network building, and offered training and one-on-one assistance to help partners take their organizations to the next level.

    Expenses $238,252 · Grants $95,283

  • In Thailand, Partners Asia directly engaged local leaders and community-based organizations all along the Thailand-Myanmar border and migrants in urban centers. As in Myanmar, opportunities, risks, and needs differ depending on community. In Thailand, Partners Asias partners worked with people who fled poverty and/or fighting in Myanmar, tailoring projects given their unique local knowledge that include: formal and non-formal schooling for Myanmar and stateless children; humanitarian emergency support to communities severely affected by fighting; assistance for migrants to obtain work permits and legal documentation; free medical care for poor migrants unrecognized as refugees. Partners Asia offers individual support to local group leaders to improve programs and operations, and is building networks across the border into Myanmar.

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.

  • Patty Curran

    Exec Director

    Total calculated
    $181,518
    From this org
    $174,537
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,981
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $174,537
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $6,981
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $181,518

  • C Lisa Turner

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $164,300
    From this org
    $162,713
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,587
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $162,713
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $1,587
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $164,300

  • Khin Ohmar

    Director

    Total calculated
    $156,250
    From this org
    $156,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $156,250
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $156,250

  • Somphavanh Cajski

    Chief Ops Officer

    Total calculated
    $143,015
    From this org
    $137,514
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,501
    Hours/week
    40

  • Therese Caouette

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $65,000
    From this org
    $65,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    24

  • Harold Nathan

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    24

  • Nuntavarn Vichit-Vadakan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tabitha Jordan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Andrew Kessler

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lily Tung

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cynthie Tin-Oo

    Director

    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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $8,235,919
    Expenses
    $6,995,375
    Contributions
    $8,030,335
    Grants paid
    $4,697,280
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,791,153
    Expenses
    $5,443,323
    Contributions
    $5,626,319
    Grants paid
    $3,539,725
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,184,500
    Expenses
    $5,175,200
    Contributions
    $8,072,163
    Grants paid
    $3,393,661
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,207,814
    Expenses
    $4,413,907
    Contributions
    $3,179,718
    Grants paid
    $2,725,304

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
    $5,792,880
    Expenses
    $4,595,228
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,552,828

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,378,181
    Expenses
    $3,451,804
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,395,851

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,306,652
    Expenses
    $3,227,641
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,527,140

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,523,462
    Expenses
    $3,047,942
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,524,909

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,866,338
    Expenses
    $4,051,881
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,989,540

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,721,169
    Expenses
    $3,042,602
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,161,186

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,718,787
    Expenses
    $2,737,107
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,552,223

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,943,755
    Expenses
    $2,200,677
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,443,942

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,916,603
    Expenses
    $2,132,933
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,557,716

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,097,952
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,681,268

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.