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Chinese American Medical Society

The Chinese American Medical Society (the Society) was created in the State of NY in 1964.

$49k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$227kArts & Culture$37kInternational$10k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $30,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $49,450 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,450 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CaringKind$12,500
Chinatown Health Clinic Foundation$10,000
Museum of Chinese in America$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%APAMSA: $7k → 10%APAMSA: $7k → 11%CHINESE AMERICAN SUNSHINE HOUSE INC: $8k → 20%APAMSA: $7k → 10%APAMSA: $7k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$192k · 7 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$192k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CH
    CHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $47k · revenue +33%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA
    4× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue ×18
  • AP
    ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $28k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK DOWNTOWN HOSPITAL CHINESE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTH FOUNDAT ION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue -8%
  • MM
    MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +51%
  • CS
    CHINESE-AMERICAN SUNSHINE HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -42%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Chinese American Medical Society

The Chinese American Medical Society (the Society) was created in the State of NY in 1964. Its mission is to improve the health status of Chinese Americans and to promote excellence in health care for all through the mobilization of health…

Health
2
Association of Chinese American Physicians Usa Inc

To foster programs that enable physicians to form a professional community in the practice of medicine, provide opportunities for physicians to participate in the governance and decision-making of health care policies that affect the…

Education
3
Society of Chinese American Physician Entrepreneurs

Our Missions are Networking: to connect Chinese American Physicians or Medical Scientists across different sub-specialties. Leadership: to facilitate collaborations among individual members and the healthcare industry in the United States.…

Education
4
National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians

The National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians mission is to provide a national voice for physicians who serve the diverse Asian, Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian communities within the United States. It provides avenues for…

—
5
Chinese Hospital Association

Chinese hospital, a community-owned, not-for-profit organization, exists primarily to deliver quality health care in a cost effective way, responsive to the community's ethnic and cultural uniqueness, providing access to health care and…

Health
6
Chinese American Physicians Society

Worked to promote equality in medicine, advance healthcare knowledge, and increase access to quality care for all communities.

—
7
Center for Advanced China Research
—
8
Asian Pacific Center for Human Development

To advance the well being of the asian american pacific islander community by providing culturally appropriate and integrated medical, behavioral, and related services.

Health
9
The American Foundation for Chinese Medicine Inc

To advance the knowledge of chinese medicine through education and scientific research.

—
10
Southern Asian Public Health Association
Health
11
China Aids Fund Inc

To combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in China by leveraging the support of the Chinese American community, and also to improve the life of medically, economically and socially deprived children in China and to cultivate heritage and leadership…

Health
12
U S- China Health Summit Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chinatown Health Clinic Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fu Generation Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK DOWNTOWN HOSPITAL CHINESE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTH FOUNDAT ION INC: $28,275 · HealthNEW YORK DOWNTOWN HOSPITAL CHINESE COMMUNITY P…LOWER EASTSIDE SERVICE CENTER INC: $22,500 · HealthLOWER EASTSIDE SERVICE CENTER INCNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $22,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INCALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $12,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW …MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 · HealthMAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTERMYANMAR AMERICAN MEDICAL EDUCATION SOCIETY INC: $6,000 · HealthCHINESE-AMERICAN FAMILY ALLIANCE FOR MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 · HealthJapanese Medical Society of America Inc: $6,000 · HealthCHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $47,000 · PhilanthropyCHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC F…CAIPA FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 · PhilanthropyCAIPA FOUNDATION INCMUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA: $37,100 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CHINE…ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: $28,000 · Human ServicesASIAN PACIFIC …CHINESE-AMERICAN SUNSHINE HOUSE INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesCHINESE-AMERIC…FU GENERATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · InternationalBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Religion
Health$113,275Philanthropy$62,500Arts & Culture$37,100Human Services$35,500International$20,000Religion$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $47,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA: $37,100 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK DOWNTOWN HOSPITAL CHINESE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTH FOUNDAT ION INC: $28,275 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: $28,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetLOWER EASTSIDE SERVICE CENTER INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFU GENERATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetCAIPA FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE-AMERICAN SUNSHINE HOUSE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 21% of budgetMYANMAR AMERICAN MEDICAL EDUCATION SOCIETY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetJapanese Medical Society of America Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chinese American Medical Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chinese American Medical Society. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Chinese American Medical Society?

    Find your warmest path to Chinese American Medical Society through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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