Washington · Nonprofit
Chinese Information and Service Center
Chinese Information and Service Center (Washington) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,876,657 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($2,937,199). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $7.9M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Chinese Information and Service Center does
Mission
We support immigrants and their families by creating opportunities for them to succeed, while honoring their heritage.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Elder Programs that promote health, independence, fellowship, and lifelong learning, including in-home care case management for Chinese and Russian speaking older adults, healthcare access and information, senior center recreational and social activities. Caregiver support for Chinese and Spanish speaking communities, and education. Cultural programs that strengthen the bonds of family, community, and generations, including art classes and exhibitions, language classes, senior resource fair, and celebrations of culture and heritage.
$7,072,456 spentof which $136,572 as grants$403 earned by the program59% of program spendingWe bridge cultures by providing family programs with multi-generational impact that support bicultural identity, empowerment of individuals and families, and help immigrant families navigate systems. Programs include bilingual preschools, early childhood education, play and learn groups. home visiting, developmental screening, and after school programs that promote kindergarten readiness, enhance academic achievement, and support social and emotional development. Our Family Resource Centers empower families who speak multiple languages including Cantonese, Mandarin, Russian, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
$4,720,083 spent$2,004 earned by the program40% of program spendingCreating opportunities for immigrants to succeed through our citizenship program. Our bilingual and English-only instructors offer naturalization and ESL classes for community members seeking U.S. citizenship. We assist in preparing the naturalization application and providing one-on-one mock interviews. Through our partnerships, we participate in free citizenship clinics.
$115,341 spent$47 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,907,880.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.5M to $8.2M (+84%).
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 91% · 2018 90% · 2019 89% · 2020 87% · 2021 86% · 2022 89% · 2023 84% · 2024 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Chinese Information and Service Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $401k → $1.0M.
6 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Information and Service Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 Information and Service Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 Information and Service Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 57% · 2019 50% · 2020 33% · 2021 41% · 2022 44% · 2023 24% — 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
46% of Chinese Information and Service Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
72% of Chinese Information and Service Center's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 Information and Service Center runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Chinese Information and Service Center
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Chinese Information and Service Center: 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 Information and Service Center?
- Chinese Information and Service Center (Washington) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,876,657 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($2,937,199). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Chinese Information and Service Center have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $7,876,657 in grants to Chinese Information and Service Center, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chinese Information and Service Center?
- UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $2,937,199 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chinese Information and Service Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 35 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