Hawaii · Nonprofit
A BETTER CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION
A BETTER CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,353 to it, the largest being FLORES FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($47,853). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $456k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $141k
- Net assets
- $502k
What A Better Chinatown Association does
Mission
The corporation is a public charity organized exclusively for charitable and educatonal purposes, including promoting and revitalizing honolulu chinatown through programs and projects including constructing and maintaining gateway arch public monuments, and mentoring, educating, and leadership development of disadvantaged individual.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To revitalize honolulu chinatown through programs and projects including constructing and maintaining gateway arch public monuments, and mentoring, educating, and leadership development of disadvantaged individuals.
To revitalize honolulu chinatown through programs and projects including constructing and maintaining gateway arch public monuments, and mentoring, educating, and leadership development of disadvantaged individuals.
$49,205 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $49,205.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $98k to $502k (+415%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $18k → $14k.
From the IRS filings of A BETTER CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A BETTER CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 74% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of A BETTER CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
A BETTER CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like A BETTER CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A BETTER CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION?
- A BETTER CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,353 to it, the largest being FLORES FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($47,853). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A BETTER CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $141,353 in grants to A BETTER CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A BETTER CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION?
- FLORES FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $47,853 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A BETTER CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing