Rhode Island · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS
CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS (Rhode Island) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,551,471 to it, the largest being RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,545,691). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Center for Southeast Asians does
Mission
Family harmony and community well-being that employs a family support model that works in collaboration with existing community-based services and systems. Services range from crisis intervention to support with basic needs and social welfare. Working to bridge linguistic and cultural barriers, empowers and enables families to stabilize and achieve success. Csea has worked to bridge the language, cultural and socio-economic barriers between sea refugees and immigrants and mainstream society. The existing needs and challenges facing many sea are primarily due to these barriers and the lack of understanding of their rights as u.s. Citizens and the influence they can have on public policy and decision making in local and state government. Many, if not most, sea are taught from a very early age that questioning authority is seen as a lack of respect. This learned mentality prevents many individuals from voicing their beliefs and advocating for important issues affecting thei
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
International language bank - a fee-for-service program which provides interpreting and translation services in over 30 languages, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
$672,664 spent$1,165,372 earned by the program19% of program spendingSocial services- case management: providing case management services, focusing on crisis intervention, goal orientation, etc. Services are client driven and strength based. Also, this service is available to all community members in need of services. Additionally, the majority of clients are low-income and many are eligible and dependent on government benefits such as snap and medicaid. - victims of crime assistance: advocacy, assistance and supportive services for victim of crime.- volunteer income tax assistance (vita): free tax preparation during the tax season.- adult literacy: english as a second language classrooms for beginning, intermediate and advance.- elderly services and meal site: elderly meal site provides hot meals, social networking, and health and nutrition education. In addition, elders receive assistance with basic needs on a walk-in basis.- general immigration services: assists clients with a variety of immigration services including citizenship classes, help to fill out/submit citizenship applications, and support at the immigration office.- community health: covid testing and vaccines, partnership with providence community health center- transitional housing-…
$2,523,518 spent70% of program spendingYouth and family development- cultural awareness trainings: a fee-for-service providing the tools to strengthen professionals' understanding of cultural diversity.- dream study: diabetes prevention among cambodians. Diabetes risk reduction through eat, walk, sleep and medication therapy management.- affordable care act (aca): assistance with enrollment and selecting health care insurance options.- autism project: raising awareness about autism in the community.- obesity project: a 3 years partnership with brown university to test a multilevel, multicomponent, multigenerational dietary intervention to improve southeast asian children's diets.
$417,184 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,613,366.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $4.5M (+290%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 17% · 2018 18% · 2019 14% · 2020 18% · 2021 14% · 2022 9% · 2023 36% · 2024 43% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Channavy Chhay
Executive director
Board chair
Gerry Kue
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $274k → $982k.
3 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS’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
CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 81% · 2019 36% · 2020 44% · 2021 72% · 2022 61% · 2023 46% — 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
22% of CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
77% of CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS's grant income comes from Rhode Island funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $710k 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.
Government funding CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $750k on record.
- Department of the Interior$500k
- Department of Labor$250k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS?
- CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS (Rhode Island) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,551,471 to it, the largest being RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,545,691). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $5,551,471 in grants to CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS?
- RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,545,691 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 24 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