Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON INC
CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,978 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($56,325). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $143k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $108k
- Net assets
- $319k
What Chinese American Association of Lexington Inc does
Mission
To serve Chinese-American interests in important town-wide activities especially, but not limited to, cultural and public school education, local issues, and diversity. To provide members with opportunities for involvement in the Lexington community through volunteerism, networking, and social events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provided fundings and organized/participated in various AAPI events; CAAL continued to host an annual lunar new year celebration for our town; Organized or participated in various community events and other ongoing community programs.
$79,885 spentof which $20,875 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $79,885.
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 2022 to 2023, from $146k to $225k (+53%).
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.
42% of CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $41k → $13k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON 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
CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 78% · 2022 65% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
88% of CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $12k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$30k
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 CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON 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.
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON INC: 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 CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON INC?
- CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,978 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($56,325). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $107,978 in grants to CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $56,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON 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.
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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 9 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