Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CHINESE CULTURE CONNECTION INC
CHINESE CULTURE CONNECTION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $624,035 to it, the largest being HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC ($238,578). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $837k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $624k
- Net assets
- $534k
What Chinese Culture Connection Inc does
Mission
Chinese Culture Connection, Inc. empowers Chinese Immigrants and other Chinese-descended residents of greater Boston to appreciate and retain their Chinese heritage, develop bicultural fluency, and enrich other with a deeper understanding... (continued on Schedule O)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community programs: East Meets West Cultural Dialogue Series is designed to help immigrant adults to balance their cultural heritage and current American life, so they may be better parents to support their American-born children, while gaining confidence and becoming productive members of our society. Youth Leadership and Mentoring Program is part of the East meets West Cultural Dialogue Series. It aims to strengthen immigrant youths bi-cultural identity, develop their leadership skills, social responsibility, and empower their self-worth by helping others. CCC offers various Chinese cultural events and workshops to expose audiences of all backgrounds to a cross-cultural experience to enhance their cultural awareness, appreciation and enjoyment. Just to name a few: Introduction to Feng Shui; Chinese Tea Culture and Art; the Development of Chinese Characters and Calligraphy, Introduction to Chinese music, etc. (Continued on Schedule O)
$303,762 spent$36,520 earned by the program51% of program spendingLittle Dragon After School program for students from K to 6th grades -- This program highlights daily Chinese (Mandarin) language instruction, homework, math and English support, as well as weekly science and other rich cultural and art activities. It is designed to provide a nurturing but structured environment with highly interactive, hands-on activities for students with all learning abilities and styles to help cultivate curiosity for learning and build confidence during the off-school hours. CCC also offers Saturday classes, summer arts and culture enrichment to accommodate students who have no time during the school day, but wish to learn Mandarin and take part in other cultural instruction during the weekends and/or summer. With smaller classes, we provide a structured, nurturing and fun learning environment that helps cultivate the students love of learning and unleashes their creative potential.
$288,894 spent$264,493 earned by the program49% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $592,656.
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 2024 to 2025, from $453k to $656k (+45%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 5% · 2021 36% · 2022 21% · 2023 18% · 2024 2% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of CHINESE CULTURE CONNECTION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Mei Hung
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $34k → $141k.
2 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 CULTURE CONNECTION INC’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 CULTURE CONNECTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 CULTURE CONNECTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 68% · 2020 53% · 2021 68% · 2022 83% · 2023 64% — 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.
How long its funders stay
22% of CHINESE CULTURE CONNECTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
97% of CHINESE CULTURE CONNECTION INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k 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.
Against its field
CHINESE CULTURE CONNECTION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CHINESE CULTURE CONNECTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $255k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$255k
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 CULTURE CONNECTION 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 CULTURE CONNECTION INC: 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 CULTURE CONNECTION INC?
- CHINESE CULTURE CONNECTION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $624,035 to it, the largest being HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC ($238,578). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHINESE CULTURE CONNECTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $624,035 in grants to CHINESE CULTURE CONNECTION INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHINESE CULTURE CONNECTION INC?
- HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC is the largest funder on record, with $238,578 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHINESE CULTURE CONNECTION INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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