Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC
CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,870,521 to it, the largest being Children's Hospital Corporation ($450,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $926k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Chinatown Community Land Trust Inc does
Mission
The chinatown community land trust (chinatown clt) works to stabilize the future of chinatown as a neighborhood for working class families and a regional hub for the chinese community. We work for community control of the land, development without displacement, permanently affordable housing, and shared neighborhood spaces, consistent with the chinatown master plan.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Row house preservation chinatown clt has a particular focus on preserving permanently affordable homes by removing some of the neighborhood's small properties from the speculative market. These brick row houses have historically housed some of chinatown's most vulnerable residents and have been affected by severe price escalation. Chinatown clt seeks to preserve permanently affordable homes and small business spaces, and to maintain core row house streets as anchors of the working class community for generations to come. Row house investments continues to hold 99-year ground leases for permanent affordability. It has completed sales of seven affordable home ownership units to first time homebuyers and recently stabilized two occupied row houses for a total of six rental units.
$549,009 spentof which $493,296 as grants61% of program spendingHistoric and cultural preservation chinatown clt works to preserve and grow chinatown as a historic and cultural district that preserves and safeguards the living pulse of boston's immigrant history; it centers on the principle that chinatown can only be preserved if its working class chinese residents and small businesses remain. Chinatown clt recently partnered with the metropolitan area planning commission and other organizations on a chinatown cultural plan. Work includes an immigrant history trail to activate nearly two centuries of historic archives, partnering with bostons historic marker program, the chinatown worker statues project, place-keeping through public art and social tourism, and exploration of both historic conservation district and cultural district status.
$181,469 spent20% of program spendingEnvironmental & energy justice "chinatown clt partners with the green justice coalition and resilient urban neighborhoods to develop a community-controlled energy projects to support resilience, clean energy, economic and environmental justice for chinatown. Projects include decarbonization and electrification of small properties, heat resilience measures, energy efficient installations such as air source heat pumps, solar and battery designs, and exploration of community solar. Chinatown clt and the chinese progressive association established chinatown power, inc. As a public benefit corporation to lead this work."
$78,153 spent$16,503 earned by the program9% of program spendingPlanning for a healthy community "chinatown clt led a participatory planning process to produce chinatown master plan 2020 and co-facilitates the ongoing chinatown master plan committee in order to guide implementation steps to achieve the community's vision. Ongoing focuses include stewardship of public land, promotion of a healthy environment, economic stability, and shared public spaces. As an outgrowth of the participatory planning work, chinatown clt has become a leading advocate and planner of open space improvement projects, as a core partner in the redesign of reggie wong memorial partner, an organizing anchor for a green space by the planned chinatown library, and an active participant in public planning processes for the tunney lee plaza and reconnecting chinatown projects." community building and collective governance "clt works with residents, small business owners, and other stakeholders to strengthen the community fabric and its sense of community. An important goal is to reclaim the practice of the community commons, collectively governing and protecting public land, shared spaces, and resources that are important for community life, not their monetary value. Recent…
$91,416 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $900,047.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $945k to $1.5M (+56%).
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: 2022 11% · 2023 27% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $7k → $405k.
1 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC’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
CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
60% 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 CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 63% · 2019 67% · 2020 45% · 2021 31% · 2022 29% · 2023 37% — 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
57% of CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
87% of CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $275k 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
CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$100k
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 CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Row House Investments Inc · exempt
- Row Houses LLC · partnership
- Chinatown Power Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC?
- CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,870,521 to it, the largest being Children's Hospital Corporation ($450,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,870,521 in grants to CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC?
- Children's Hospital Corporation is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 21 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing