Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CHINESE CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA
CHINESE CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,125 to it, the largest being PROFESSIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INTERNATIONAL INC ($30,125). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $153k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Chinese Christian Scholars Association in North America does
Mission
To share Gospel with Chinese intellectuals. The goals of the Association are 1. to network and discipline Chinese Christian scholars in North America for their moral and academic excellence, 2. to reach the unreached Chinese academic world with Christian faith, and 3. to support Christian education and publication in China.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, officers of the company taught four different Christianity related classes via the ZOOM meeting format. There were a total of 310 individuals attended these classes. The company hosted two conferences in Beijing and Guizhou, China. 34 individuals attended these conferences. The Company provided three lectures in three Chinese universities in April and May 2025 with 180 students participated in these lectures. Additionally, a spiritual retreat was organized in 2025. 15 individuals attended this retreat.
$83,376 spent46% of program spendingPublication Program; The Company published an academic Si Dao Journal to collect religious related articles presented by scholars around the world. This journal will be published three or four volumes a year. Scholarship Program: The Company's Loveheart scholarship supported 12 students in China to help them to complete college or high school education. This program is managed through two Chinese universities in 2025. Additionally, the Company also supported 43 theological students in two Chinese organizations and one student studied in a domestic seminary.
$97,722 spent54% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $181,098.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.1M to $2.5M (+17%).
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.
89% of CHINESE CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
He Dong
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $16k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA’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 CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 63% — diversifying over time.
“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
CHINESE CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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 CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA is better cushioned than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHINESE CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA
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.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHINESE CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA?
- CHINESE CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,125 to it, the largest being PROFESSIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INTERNATIONAL INC ($30,125). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHINESE CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $65,125 in grants to CHINESE CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHINESE CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA?
- PROFESSIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHINESE CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA 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 3 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