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CHINATOWN YOUTH INITIATIVES

CHINATOWN YOUTH INITIATIVES (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $286,249 to it, the largest being Jeremy Lin Foundation ($152,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$83k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$286k
Net assets
$170k
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 85%
01What it does

What Chinatown Youth Initiatives does

Mission

The mission of Chinatown Youth Initiatives (cyi) is to empower new york city youth with the knowledge and skills necessary to address the needs of chinatown, asian americans, and other underrepresented communities. By providing a safe and supportive environment, cyi works to build a legacy of leaders who strengthen awareness of self-identity and community issues through project initiatives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Chinatown beautification day - cleaning up the local community.

    $10,195 spent
    25% of program spending
  2. Chinatown literacy project - adult english as a second language program

    $4,090 spent
    10% of program spending
  3. Summer leadership insistute - engage youths in workshops to discuss social issues.

    $22,633 spent
    54% of program spending
  4. A summer leadership program in which high school students learn about the needs of nyc chinatown and work in teams to develop an entrepreneurial idea that will drive social change in new york city's chinatown and asian american communities.

    $4,618 spent
    11% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,536.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($70k) Expenses 100 ($36k) Net assets 100 ($59k)2024 Revenue 201 ($141k) Expenses 178 ($65k) Net assets 230 ($135k)2025 Revenue 118 ($83k) Expenses 131 ($48k) Net assets 290 ($170k)
202320242025
Revenue (118)Expenses (131)Net assets (290)Peer revenue range

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 $59k to $135k (+130%).

$59k
$135k
$170k
202320242025
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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CHINATOWN YOUTH INITIATIVES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
’23
$76k
’24
$35k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Winnie Huang

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $66 → $60k.

5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 YOUTH INITIATIVES’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 YOUTH INITIATIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

35% 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 YOUTH INITIATIVES.

53%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 63% · 2022 98% · 2023 87% — 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 YOUTH INITIATIVES's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

CHINATOWN YOUTH INITIATIVES draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.

NY
CA
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHINATOWN YOUTH INITIATIVES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin42% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like CHINATOWN YOUTH INITIATIVES

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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHINATOWN YOUTH INITIATIVES?
CHINATOWN YOUTH INITIATIVES (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $286,249 to it, the largest being Jeremy Lin Foundation ($152,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHINATOWN YOUTH INITIATIVES have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $286,249 in grants to CHINATOWN YOUTH INITIATIVES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHINATOWN YOUTH INITIATIVES?
Jeremy Lin Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $152,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHINATOWN YOUTH INITIATIVES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 12 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