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CHINESE-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOC AT TRIANGLE AREA NORTH CAROLINA

CHINESE-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOC AT TRIANGLE AREA NORTH CAROLINA (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,796 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($57,069). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$133k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$87k
Net assets
$322k
1/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Chinese-American Friendship Assoc at Triangle Area North Carolina does

Mission

To promote Chinese culture and education and to promote Sino-American culture, science, and technology exchange.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Organize member activities and provide visiting visa services. Estimated benefiting over 500 people

    $22,755 spent$23,456 earned by the program
    23% of program spending
  2. Organized Culture Activities such as Chinese Festival Gala, Taste of China. Estimated benefiting over 5000 people.

    $54,695 spent$70,613 earned by the program
    56% of program spending
  3. Organized activities such as telling Story activity, Christmas events, Family art events, Dragon Boat Festival, PingPong tournament and Fall picnic. Estimated benefiting over 500 people.

    $20,326 spent$810 earned by the program
    21% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $97,776.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($129k) Expenses 100 ($100k) Net assets 100 ($172k)2020 Revenue 217 ($280k) Expenses 266 ($265k) Net assets 109 ($187k)2021 Revenue 30 ($38k) Expenses 35 ($35k) Net assets 111 ($191k)2022 Revenue 32 ($42k) Expenses 38 ($38k) Net assets 113 ($195k)2023 Revenue 151 ($195k) Expenses 145 ($145k) Net assets 142 ($245k)2024 Revenue 169 ($218k) Expenses 170 ($169k) Net assets 171 ($294k)2025 Revenue 103 ($133k) Expenses 105 ($105k) Net assets 187 ($322k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (103)Expenses (105)Net assets (187)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 2022 to 2023, from $195k to $245k (+26%).

$172k
$187k
$191k
$195k
$245k
$294k
$322k
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

22% of CHINESE-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOC AT TRIANGLE AREA NORTH CAROLINA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$29k
’19
$15k
’20
$4k
’21
$4k
’22
$50k
’23
$49k
’24
$28k
’25
37
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.

Board chair

Yulin Jiang

Chairperson of the Board

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020242025
Listed11214
Joined··+7
No longer listed··5
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $600.

Funder
'17
'19
'20
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
3
1
1

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 FRIENDSHIP ASSOC AT TRIANGLE AREA NORTH CAROLINA’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 FRIENDSHIP ASSOC AT TRIANGLE AREA NORTH CAROLINA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

98% 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 FRIENDSHIP ASSOC AT TRIANGLE AREA NORTH CAROLINA.

66%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 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

76% of CHINESE-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOC AT TRIANGLE AREA NORTH CAROLINA'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 $21k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

NJ
CA
NC

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

’19
’20
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHINESE-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOC AT TRIANGLE AREA NORTH CAROLINA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve36.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CHINESE-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOC AT TRIANGLE AREA NORTH CAROLINA

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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
50%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

NC

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHINESE-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOC AT TRIANGLE AREA NORTH CAROLINA?
CHINESE-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOC AT TRIANGLE AREA NORTH CAROLINA (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,796 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($57,069). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHINESE-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOC AT TRIANGLE AREA NORTH CAROLINA have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $86,796 in grants to CHINESE-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOC AT TRIANGLE AREA NORTH CAROLINA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHINESE-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOC AT TRIANGLE AREA NORTH CAROLINA?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $57,069 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHINESE-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOC AT TRIANGLE AREA NORTH CAROLINA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 6 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