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Boston Chinese Musicians Association

Boston Chinese Musicians Association (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,453 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($9,353). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2023
$66k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$9k
Net assets
$63k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Boston Chinese Musicians Association does

Mission

Promote music activities

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Adult Orchestra 4 performances in 2023 had thousands of audiances two of them are charity performances.

    $32,736 spent
    77% of program spending
  2. Chori 4 performances in 2023. One is charity performance

    $7,197 spent
    17% of program spending
  3. Youth Orchestr has 37 members. 6 performances 3 of them are charity performances

    $2,636 spent
    6% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,569.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($21k) Expenses 100 ($5k) Net assets 100 ($53k)2023 Revenue 305 ($66k) Expenses 1137 ($56k) Net assets 118 ($63k)
20222023
Revenue (305)Expenses (1137)Net assets (118)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $53k to $63k (+18%).

$53k
$63k
20222023
Total assets

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.

2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

58% of Boston Chinese Musicians Association’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’22
$10k
’23
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
2

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 Boston Chinese Musicians 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

Boston Chinese Musicians Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Boston Chinese Musicians Association.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

99% of Boston Chinese Musicians Association's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $100 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Boston Chinese Musicians Association has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)205% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

Organizations like Boston Chinese Musicians 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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Boston Chinese Musicians Association?
Boston Chinese Musicians Association (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,453 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($9,353). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Boston Chinese Musicians Association have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $9,453 in grants to Boston Chinese Musicians Association.
Who is the largest funder of Boston Chinese Musicians Association?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $9,353 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Boston Chinese Musicians Association find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 2 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