California · Nonprofit
AMERICAN CHINESE CULTURE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION
AMERICAN CHINESE CULTURE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,327 to it, the largest being THE ROBERTO FOUNDATION ($45,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $91k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $133k
- Net assets
- $594k
What American Chinese Culture and Education Foundation does
Mission
The accef's mission and most significant activities are to reach out to mainstream society and other culture communities to share chinese culture with passion; to promote education with principles and convictions; to enable children and others to have opportunities to learn with love; and to sponsor less-privileged children to school in the rural areas of china.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Accef continued to support the less privileged students to have an opportunity to school. In 2024, the total approximate 266 children with more than ten school locations were sponsored under accef one-to-one rainbow program. Accef continued to fund yunnan proud student program this year. In addition, accef assisted schools to improve learning environments by repairing facilities.
$76,000 spent86% of program spendingCulture exchange program:accef continued to promote culture to american and chinese communities. Accef organized or actively attended many community events, such as thanksgiving virtual celebration event to promote traditional culture to the community.
$7,563 spent9% of program spendingYouth care club program:accef youth care club (ycc) continously provided member children opportunities to participate the community services and held various events during the year. Accef's ycc has over 150 active participant members with 4768 hours for community services to contribute to the society as good citizens during the year 2024.
$5,100 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $88,663.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2017 to 2018, from $645k to $550k (−15%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
116% of AMERICAN CHINESE CULTURE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Board chair
Jing Zhao
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $45k → $2k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN CHINESE CULTURE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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
AMERICAN CHINESE CULTURE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 70%; 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: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 48% · 2021 83% · 2022 96% · 2023 70% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of AMERICAN CHINESE CULTURE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
63% of AMERICAN CHINESE CULTURE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
AMERICAN CHINESE CULTURE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like AMERICAN CHINESE CULTURE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN CHINESE CULTURE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN CHINESE CULTURE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN CHINESE CULTURE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,327 to it, the largest being THE ROBERTO FOUNDATION ($45,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN CHINESE CULTURE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $133,327 in grants to AMERICAN CHINESE CULTURE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN CHINESE CULTURE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- THE ROBERTO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN CHINESE CULTURE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds American Chinese Culture and Education →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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