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Cantonese School of Greater Washington

Cantonese School of Greater Washington (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $724 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($724). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$54k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$724
Net assets
$115k
1/1 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Cantonese School of Greater Washington does

Mission

Provide Cantonese Instruction to children and promote cultural awareness

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. CSGW provided Cantonese Instruction to over 50 students during the 7/2018 - 6/30/2019 school year instruction provided at cost

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($38k) Expenses 100 ($29k) Net assets 100 ($28k)2018 Revenue 75 ($29k) Expenses 100 ($29k) Net assets 99 ($28k)2019 Revenue 82 ($31k) Expenses 117 ($34k) Net assets 89 ($25k)2020 Revenue 96 ($37k) Expenses 65 ($19k) Net assets 152 ($43k)2021 Revenue 21 ($8k) Expenses 10 ($3k) Net assets 169 ($48k)2022 Revenue 0 ($130) Net assets 169 ($48k)2023 Revenue 143 ($54k) Expenses 82 ($24k) Net assets 278 ($79k)2024 Revenue 152 ($58k) Expenses 143 ($42k) Net assets 344 ($98k)2025 Revenue 143 ($54k) Expenses 173 ($50k) Net assets 403 ($115k)
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Revenue (143)Expenses (173)Net assets (403)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 $48k to $79k (+64%).

$28k
$0
$25k
$43k
$48k
$48k
$79k
$98k
$115k
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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.

2017
2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of Cantonese School of Greater Washington’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’17
−$328
’18
−$3k
’19
$18k
’20
$5k
’21
$130
’22
$31k
’23
$16k
’24
$4k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $231 → $154.

Funder
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'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Cantonese School of Greater Washington’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.

Where its funders are

100% of Cantonese School of Greater Washington'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $724 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

Cantonese School of Greater Washington runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Cantonese School of Greater Washington?
Cantonese School of Greater Washington (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $724 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($724). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Cantonese School of Greater Washington have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $724 in grants to Cantonese School of Greater Washington, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Cantonese School of Greater Washington?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $724 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Cantonese School of Greater Washington find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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