California · Nonprofit
CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER
CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER (California) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,837,594 to it, the largest being Special Service for Groups Inc ($1,443,864). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $8.8M
- Net assets
- $41M
What Chinatown Service Center does
Mission
Provide services and advocacy to promote better quality of life and equal opportunity for immigrants and other communities to achieve its vision of thriving lives in empowered commmunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Medical service division:the center has a licensed community clinic that provides quality and affordable prenatal primary health care to the limited or non-english speaking immigrants, refugees and low-income families. The clinic employs nurse practicioners, medical doctors, medical specialists, nurses, nursing assistants, and medical school aids to provide comprehensive health care in various dialects of chinese, vietnamese, spanish, japanese, korean, russian, and english. Clinic patients utilizae local hospitals such as garfield hospital, san gabriel medical center and st. Vincent medical center. Includes health education component with outreach efforts exteending to various areas in los angeles county.
$14,250,557 spent$19,426,958 earned by the program41% of program spendingDental service division:the center also provides affordable dental services to the community. The clinic provides comprenhensive oral exams and xrays, filling, extractions, crowns, bridges, dentures, root canals and other services. These services are provided by highly qualified dentists, dental assistants and dental support staff.
$6,750,885 spent$8,743,301 earned by the program19% of program spendingBehavioral health division:the professional and caring counselors of csc's behavioral health division are committed to providing linguistically and culturally relevant counseling services. Services provided include individual, family, couples, and anger management counseling; life skills training groups for children and youth; crisis intervention; parent education; domestic violence/batterer's intervention treatment; case management; and behavioral health education workshops. Mental health services also expand to community and school outreach outside of traditional direct mental health services.
$8,278,344 spent$10,054,475 earned by the program24% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$5,474,322 spent$2,422,840 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $34,754,108.
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 2022 to 2023, from $27M to $48M (+80%).
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 24% · 2018 22% · 2019 31% · 2020 23% · 2021 42% · 2022 24% · 2023 13% · 2024 22% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Peter K Ng
CEO
Board chair
C Joseph Chang
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $191k → $1.4M.
11 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 SERVICE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 funders by total. 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 SERVICE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
88% 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 SERVICE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 39% · 2019 63% · 2020 30% · 2021 32% · 2022 15% · 2023 26% — 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
50% of CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
73% of CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states 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 CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $49.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$45.4M
- Department of Justice$3.4M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$850k
- Department of the Treasury$63k
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 SERVICE CENTER
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.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 2 related entities
- Casanova Gardens LP · partnership
- Cesar Chavez Gardens LP · partnership
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER: 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 SERVICE CENTER?
- CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER (California) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,837,594 to it, the largest being Special Service for Groups Inc ($1,443,864). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $8,837,594 in grants to CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER?
- Special Service for Groups Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,443,864 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER 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.
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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 59 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