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Chinese American Citizens Alliance- Grand Lodge

Chinese American Citizens Alliance- Grand Lodge (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,500 to it, the largest being MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$341k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$23k
Net assets
$2.4M
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%
01What it does

What Chinese American Citizens Alliance- Grand Lodge does

Mission

To inculcate the principles of charity,justice, brotherly love, and fidelity among its members; to promote the general welfare and happiness of its members and the chinese communites; to quicken the spirit of american patriotism; to insure the legal rights of its members.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Annually officers and members of the Alliance travel to Washington D.C. to meet with elected representatives, officials, their staff, and other Asian American organizations for the purpose of gaining a better understanding of the workings of our government, as well as to exchange information and ideas on issues of significance to our members and the Chinese and Asian American communities. To enhance their education experiences and their leadership growth, college students are chosen to travel, participate, and attend alongside the Alliance officers and members.As a benefit to its members, the Alliance occasionally hosts luncheons or dinners or provide a small item of recognition or award in honor of a special occasion or the passing of a member who has volunteered his or her time and services in a significant manner to the Alliance. The Alliance also provides a monetary donation to its local chapter upon it reaching a significant milestone, such as a decennial anniversary. Through its newsletters and website, the Alliance also endeavors to keep its members informed of its activities, as well as issues of current and historical significance to its members and the Chinese American…

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($213k) Expenses 100 ($133k) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2018 Revenue 96 ($204k) Expenses 106 ($141k) Net assets 103 ($2.1M)2019 Revenue 10 ($22k) Expenses 120 ($159k) Net assets 96 ($2.0M)2020 Revenue 112 ($239k) Expenses 140 ($186k) Net assets 112 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 239 ($509k) Expenses 222 ($294k) Net assets 123 ($2.5M)2022 Revenue 156 ($333k) Expenses 293 ($389k) Net assets 120 ($2.4M)2023 Revenue -18 ($-38109) Expenses 45 ($59k) Net assets 115 ($2.3M)2024 Revenue 56 ($120k) Expenses 203 ($269k) Net assets 108 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 160 ($341k) Expenses 83 ($110k) Net assets 119 ($2.4M)
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Revenue (160)Expenses (83)Net assets (119)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $2.0M to $2.3M (+16%).

$2.1M
$2.1M
$2.0M
$2.3M
$2.5M
$2.5M
$2.6M
$2.5M
$2.4M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$80k
’17
$63k
’18
−$137k
’19
$53k
’20
$215k
’21
−$56k
’22
−$97k
’23
−$149k
’24
$231k
’25
143
months of
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.

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Listed232424242423232323
Joined·+9+1+7+0+6+0+7+0
No longer listed·81707070
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $13k.

Funder
'19
'23
total
AARPunclassified
$10k
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Chinese American Citizens Alliance- Grand Lodge’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 Citizens Alliance- Grand Lodge leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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

100% 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 Citizens Alliance- Grand Lodge.

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 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

56% of Chinese American Citizens Alliance- Grand Lodge's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
DC

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

’19
’23
California out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Chinese American Citizens Alliance- Grand Lodge

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Chinese American Citizens Alliance- Grand Lodge?
Chinese American Citizens Alliance- Grand Lodge (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,500 to it, the largest being MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Chinese American Citizens Alliance- Grand Lodge have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $22,500 in grants to Chinese American Citizens Alliance- Grand Lodge.
Who is the largest funder of Chinese American Citizens Alliance- Grand Lodge?
MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Chinese American Citizens Alliance- Grand Lodge 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 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