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Chinese Information and Service Center at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Chinese Information and Service Center

We support immigrants and their families by creating opportunities for them to succeed, while honoring their heritage.

$137k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Human Services$616kEducation$474kCivil Rights$102kHealth$41kArts & Culture$30kYouth Development$26k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Filipino Community of Seattle$35,000
United Territories of PIA$35,000
Koren Community Service Cent$35,000
Korean Womens Association$30,222
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $603k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Generations With Pride: $5k → 9%KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $101k → 9%KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $71k → 9%KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $67k → 9%KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $64k → 9%United Territories of PIA: $35k → 9%Korean Women's Association: $63k → 9%UNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS ALLIANCE: $35k → 9%KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $36k → 9%Korean Womens Association: $30k → 9%KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $25k → 9%FILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE: $35k → 9%Filipino Community of Seattle: $35k → 9%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Chinese Information and Service Center’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 90%.

Chinese Information and Service Centerlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 7 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$1.2M
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+56%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • WA
    West African Community Council
    3× · 2018–2020 · $492k · revenue +546%
  • KW
    KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $457k · revenue +103%
  • FC
    FILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • WA
    WHATCOM ALLIANCE FOR HEALTHCARE ACCESS C/O CHUCKANUT HEALTH FDN
    one grant, 2018 · $31k
  • 4T
    4 TOMORROWgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue +40%
  • IA
    INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue ×12
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
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
2
Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center

Recognizing the inherent worth and dignity of all people, KIAC works for the well-being and empowerment of immigrants through education, advocacy and social justice.

Human Services
3
Pacific Islander Community Association of Wa

The Pacific Islander Community Association of WA PICA-WA serves as a cultural home, centers community power and advocates to further the wellness of Pacific Islander communities in Washington State.

Civil Rights
4
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights
5
Asians for Collective Action

Asians for Collective Action (ACA) harnesses the strenghts of Asians and Asian Americans to drive systemic change to create a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.

Public Benefit
6
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission

Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission is led by and for Indigenous people, and envisions a just society in which we are treated with honor, fairness and respect. Our mission is to uphold our individual civil rights through education…

Human Services
7
Washington West African Center
Arts & Culture
8
Wakulima Usa

Our Food Production Center will serve as our primary storage production and distribution facility. The coop will aggregate purchase store and distribute farm inputs for members and will act as an integrator collecting the output from…

Food & Nutrition
9
Keiro Northwest

We empower our asian community through a continuum of exceptional health care servies that are culturally sensitive.

Human Services
10
Washington Health Care Association

Trade association dedicated to providing educational opportunities, legal and regulatory advice, quality compliance assistance, lobbying and discounted group member benefits for long-term care facilities.

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11
Cambodian American Community Council of Washington

The Cambodian American Community Council of Washington's (CACCWA) mission is to strengthen Cambodian-American communities and organizations by promoting and supporting mult-ethnic community unity, cultural preservation, partnerships,…

Arts & Culture
12
Washington African American Chamber of Commerce

WAACOC nonprofit organization focuses on promoting economic development by providing crucial business development and technical assistance services. Through strategic partnerships and targeted programs we support entrepreneurs and small…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Community Health Services Foundation; the most unlike its peers is United Territories of Pacific Islanders Washington-Utopia Wa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $457,218 · Human ServicesKOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATIONFILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE: $70,000 · Human ServicesFILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLEUNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA: $70,000 · Human ServicesUNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTO…+2 more: $18,952 · Human ServicesWest African Community Council: $491,999 · Arts & CultureWest African Community Council+1 more: $12,500 · Arts & CultureKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $70,000 · Community ImprovementONEAMERICA: $32,306 · Public BenefitWHATCOM ALLIANCE FOR HEALTHCARE ACCESS C/O CHUCKANUT HEALTH FDN: $30,656 · Other4 TOMORROW: $26,087 · Youth DevelopmentINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $9,999 · Health
Human Services$616,170Arts & Culture$504,499Community Improvement$70,000Public Benefit$32,306Other$30,656Youth Development$26,087Health$9,999

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWest African Community Council: $491,999 over 3y, 23% of budgetKOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $457,218 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE: $70,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $70,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA: $70,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetONEAMERICA: $32,306 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWHATCOM ALLIANCE FOR HEALTHCARE ACCESS C/O CHUCKANUT HEALTH FDN: $30,656 over 1y, 3.9% of budget4 TOMORROW: $26,087 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State: $13,572 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $12,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $9,999 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGenerations With Pride: $5,380 over 1y, 0.8% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationInatai FoundationSheng-Yen Lu Foundati…The Satterberg Founda…School's Out Washingt…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Front and CenteredPhilanthropy NorthwestUnited Way of King Co…OneamericaFair Work CenterEquity in Education C…
Seattle FoundationWA24.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · School's Out Washington · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Front and Centered · Philanthropy Northwest · United Way of King County · Oneamerica · Fair Work Center · Equity in Education Coalition

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 Information and Service Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chinese Information and Service Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 12 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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