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CHICAGO'S CHINATOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

CHICAGO'S CHINATOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,463 to it, the largest being COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC ($25,785). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$465k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$40k
Net assets
$417k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Chicago's Chinatown Chamber of Commerce does

Mission

To facilitate the economic development and welfare of chicago's chinese community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Community relations, and various social and public events that facilitate the economic development and welfare of chicago's chinatown community.

    $196,737 spent
    87% of program spending
  2. Newsletters, seminars, and conferences provided for the benefit of members.

    $28,385 spent
    13% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $225,122.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($354k) Expenses 100 ($365k) Net assets 100 ($289k)2021 Revenue 93 ($328k) Expenses 82 ($300k) Net assets 110 ($317k)2022 Revenue 102 ($361k) Expenses 98 ($359k) Net assets 110 ($318k)2023 Revenue 138 ($490k) Expenses 103 ($375k) Net assets 150 ($433k)2024 Revenue 132 ($468k) Expenses 138 ($502k) Net assets 138 ($399k)2025 Revenue 132 ($465k) Expenses 123 ($447k) Net assets 144 ($417k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (132)Expenses (123)Net assets (144)

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 $441k to $550k (+25%).

$346k
$374k
$441k
$550k
$522k
$531k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 12% · 2022 11%. 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 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$11k
’20
$28k
’21
$2k
’22
$115k
’23
−$34k
’24
$18k
’25
7.1
months of
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

Eddie Ni

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed222223222314
Joined·+0+3+1+3+0
No longer listed·02229
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

From the IRS filings of CHICAGO'S CHINATOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’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

CHICAGO'S CHINATOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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

100% 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 CHICAGO'S CHINATOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

64%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
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

100% of CHICAGO'S CHINATOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like CHICAGO'S CHINATOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

50% of spending goes to programs.

Program 50%Management 39%Fundraising 11%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Chicago Chinatown Community Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHICAGO'S CHINATOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
CHICAGO'S CHINATOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,463 to it, the largest being COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC ($25,785). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHICAGO'S CHINATOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,463 in grants to CHICAGO'S CHINATOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO'S CHINATOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC is the largest funder on record, with $25,785 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHICAGO'S CHINATOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2020–2025), 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