Illinois · Nonprofit
CHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO
CHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being RM LIU FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of Chicago does
Mission
The business ("ccba") was established in the 1880s in order to help chinese immigrants in starting a new life in the chicago area. Today, ccba conducts a variety of programs that educate chinese immigrants about the us citizenship, promote and preserve chinese heritages and cultural traditions in the community, and meet t he charitable needs of local chinese families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The association sponsers several programs including community affairs programs, senior citizens care, and the new year's day chinatown parade (5,000-8,000 participants). The association maintains a number of free social services to the public, including library, free health clinic, chinese and english language training for youth and new immigrants (400-500 students), and health care workshops. The association also organizes classes for citizenship application, food sanitation, etc.
$225,971 spent$368,456 earned by the program24% of program spendingLunch program-the association prepares and distributes subsidized lunches to 300-400 elderly and handicapped citizens, six days per week throughout the whole year.
$548,718 spent$499,349 earned by the program58% of program spendingThe association oversees the preservation of historical and cultural chinese cemetery for the chinese american community, including: 1. Provision of interment rights, 2. Conducting ancestor-worship ceremonies and community festivals to honor the deceased, 3. Working with families to advise on chinese burial traditions, translate and prepare grave monuments and markers, and coordinate and perform chinese burial customs, and 4. Arranging volunteers to provide transportation to families and elders to regularly visit cemetery to honor the deceased and conduct religious/cultural traditions.
$1,333 spent$370,363 earned by the program0% of program spendingOther programs including rental apartments and senior building project.
$166,913 spent$210,534 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $942,935.
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 $4.7M to $6.1M (+31%).
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.
4% of CHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Tat Wai Chan
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO’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
CHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
CHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO
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In Illinois
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
99%
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 CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO?
- CHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being RM LIU FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to CHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO.
- Who is the largest funder of CHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO?
- RM LIU FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO 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.
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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 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