California · Nonprofit
CHAFONG LEE FOUNDATION
CHAFONG LEE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($16,000). 0 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 FY2024
- $87k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $-10265
What Chafong Lee Foundation does
Mission
To preserve, restore and educate the hmong history. To teach the younger generation about the hmong culture, music and art. To provide hmong students with scholarships and grants for higher education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization has obtained federal exemption and its goals are to preserve, restore and educate the public about hmong history; to teach the younger generation about the hmong cultural, art and music; and, to provide hmong students with scholarships and grants for higher education. The foundation has made improvements to leased property in order to provide a hmong museum and display hmong artifacts, crafts and its many rich history. The property will be available for rent to provide classes and cultural study of hmong arts and crafts.
$72,954 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $72,954.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $33k to $39k (+18%).
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.
18% of CHAFONG LEE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
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 CHAFONG LEE 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CHAFONG LEE FOUNDATION'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. $16k 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.
Against its field
CHAFONG LEE FOUNDATION has grown faster than half 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 CHAFONG LEE 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.
Public support
0%
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 CHAFONG LEE 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHAFONG LEE FOUNDATION?
- CHAFONG LEE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($16,000). 0 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 CHAFONG LEE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $16,000 in grants to CHAFONG LEE FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAFONG LEE FOUNDATION?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAFONG LEE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), 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