Hawaii · Nonprofit
CHINATOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
CHINATOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,200 to it, the largest being HAWAII HOTEL INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Chinatown Improvement District does
Mission
To enhance and improve neighborhood conditions and the quality of life for residents, businesses, and visitors in the area commonly known as "chinatown" in honolulu, hawaii.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Sponsored an autumn moon lantern festival held within the chinatown community. The event featured lantern making and other keiki activities and drew approximately 500 participants.
$5,933 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,933.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $6k to $9k (+54%).
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.
100% of CHINATOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of CHINATOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT’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 IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
65% 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 IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 CHINATOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
CHINATOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT's revenue fell 87% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CHINATOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
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 Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHINATOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT: 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 CHINATOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT?
- CHINATOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,200 to it, the largest being HAWAII HOTEL INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHINATOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $23,200 in grants to CHINATOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHINATOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT?
- HAWAII HOTEL INDUSTRY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHINATOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. 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