New York · Nonprofit
CHINESE AMERICAN LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION
CHINESE AMERICAN LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $109 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($109). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $48k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $109
- Net assets
- $517k
What Chinese American Librarians Association does
Mission
To support the professional develpment of cala members and enhance the leadership development of chinese american librarians through training, mentoring, networking, and collaboration with colleagues in the united stateg and abroad. Cala's work inspires chinese american librarians to meet their professional goals and to make valuable contributions to the global library community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Organized and sponsored cala annual program; organized a tour to library of congress, east asian section; sent a delegation to participate in yunnan chuxlong library symposium; supported cala members to attend international federation of liabrary associations; gave grants and scholarships to library schools.
Receive and remit annual and initial membership dues
$3,613 spent$7,175 earned by the program6% of program spendingOffer online advertising for cala-approved job postings and related messages
$52,616 spent$26,301 earned by the program94% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $56,229.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $453k to $525k (+16%).
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.
16% of CHINESE AMERICAN LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Michael Bailou Huang
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $23 → $18.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $29M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Mona Bismarck American Center for Art and Culture Inc C/O Ewenstein&Roth LLP). These are real filings, and they are not money CHINESE AMERICAN LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CHINESE AMERICAN LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of CHINESE AMERICAN LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $109 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CHINESE AMERICAN LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION: 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 LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION?
- CHINESE AMERICAN LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $109 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($109). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHINESE AMERICAN LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $109 in grants to CHINESE AMERICAN LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHINESE AMERICAN LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $109 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHINESE AMERICAN LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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