Illinois · Nonprofit
CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC
CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,468,418 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($10,734,038). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $25M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Chinese American Service League Inc does
Mission
Building on the wisdom of generations, chinese american service league (casl) catalyzes the transformation of individuals, families, and the community for an equitable future. This is achieved through comprehensive program activities that: lead to family economic self-sufficiency strengthen families ease the cultural transformations of individuals and families as they integrate into american society engage in advocacy to achieve positive social systemic change. Casl is critical anchor for the greater chicago community delievering impactful programs and services that preserve and nurture the connection that current and future generations have to their chinese culture and heritage. Supported by casl, our community members will live prosperous and empowered lives integrating the best of cultures.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Senior meals program ended operations during fy25. Adult employment, policy research, and south side health equity programs were announced to end towards the end of fy25.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Senior services - the agency impacts the mental and physical health of community seniors, engaging them to live healthy, happy, independent and engaged lives through adult day services, senior homecare services and the pine tree senior council.
$13,653,020 spent$13,152,293 earned by the program55% of program spendingAdult services - the agency strengthens the community as a whole by enriching the economic power of its clients who contribute to it. When their financial needs are met, they are able to become highly productive members of society and are able to thrive. Programming includes adult employment, culinary training, senior employment and housing and financial education. The agency also impacts the stability of the community by offering foundational services that safeguard individual and family needs such as legal clinic, citizenship and immigration, wellness and social services and basic needs and public services.
$4,613,432 spent$1,714,960 earned by the program19% of program spendingChildren & youth services - the agency impacts children through an enriching multilingual environment that provides them with the skills to succeed at school while supporting families and their efforts to transition into american culture. Programming includes children 0 to 18 years old.
$3,191,691 spent$1,242,766 earned by the program13% of program spendingCommunity impact :center for social impact - the agency promotes social impact in our communities by advancing data-driven solutions and equitable policy initiatives aimed at engaging and supporting the agency's departments and programs.community equity research center - the agency's community equity research center (cerc) promotes inclusion and community empowerment by using data to shape policy, advocacy, and education efforts. Cerc is dedicated to increasing representation for asian american and native hawaiian pacific islander (aanhpi) communities at the local and national policy level and provides strategic, data-informed recommendations to ensure equitable outcomes. Cerc also works collaboratively with casl's center for social impact (csi) to improve the well-being of our community and clients. We provide our departments and programs with the education, information, and support they need to successfully serve our diverse clients and communities.
$1,661,588 spent7% of program spendingHealth services - the agency's behavioral health and clinical services provides quality, person-centered, and culturally competent care to help families and individuals of all ages and backgrounds achieve healthy living.
$1,461,489 spent$856,146 earned by the program6% of program spendingLegal services - the agency's legal services partners with chicago volunteer legal services (cvls) and volunteer attorneys and volunteer interpreters to provide legal assistance to clients on a range of issues. Eligibility for legal services is based on household income and residency.
$67,256 spent$79,201 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,648,476.
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. 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 $16M to $22M (+41%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 57% · 2018 53% · 2019 49% · 2020 47% · 2021 48% · 2022 39% · 2023 27% · 2024 15% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Luu Paul
CEO
Board chair
Fong Bonnie
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $16M.
11 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 SERVICE LEAGUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 funders by total. 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 SERVICE LEAGUE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
85% 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 SERVICE LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 30% · 2019 37% · 2020 30% · 2021 18% · 2022 21% · 2023 63% — 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.
How long its funders stay
62% of CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
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
66% of CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 SERVICE LEAGUE INC's funding base is broadening — from 19 funders to 39 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 366 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.0M
- Department of Homeland Security$770k
- Department of Justice$150k
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 SERVICE LEAGUE 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC?
- CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,468,418 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($10,734,038). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $32,468,418 in grants to CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $10,734,038 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 68 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing