Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION
CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,346,496 to it, the largest being The Hyams Foundation Inc ($1,089,500). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Chinese Progressive Association does
Mission
The Chinese Progressive Association is a grassroots community organization which works for full equality and empowerment of the chinese community in greater boston and beyond. Our activities seek to improve living and working standards of chinese americans and to involve ordinary community members in making decisions that affect our lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The membership of the association includes workers, professionals, elderly and youth, immigrant and american born. Cpa operates various initiatives and conducts social and cultural activities in furtherance of its mission, including the following ongoing programs:chinatown stabilization campaign:the chinatown stabilization campaign is a grassroots neighborhood organizing project focused on safe affordable housing for working class families and community development. The goal of the campaign is to stabilize and grow the chinatown community as both an urban working-class neighborhood and a vital community center. The primary strategy is to combine tenant organizing to help people stay in their homes, support for community-driven planning and development, and to work for policies that stabilize working class neighborhoods and communities of color.chinese youth initiative:the goal of the chinese youth initiative ("cyi") is to develop the organizing skills, leadership capacity, and community awareness of chinese american youth so that they can contribute to improving the community's condition. Cpa involves youth in a seven-week summer internship and academic-year internships for high…
$773,764 spentof which $11,750 as grants$41,119 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $773,764.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $4.4M to $5.3M (+19%).
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: 2021 18% · 2022 4% · 2024 6% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Karen Chen
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $343k → $816k.
12 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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 PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
57% 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 PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 39% · 2019 33% · 2020 27% · 2021 25% · 2022 17% · 2023 18% — 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
43% of CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
85% of CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Chinese Progressive Political Action Inc · exempt
- Chinese Progressive Political Action Independent Expenditure Political Acti · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION?
- CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,346,496 to it, the largest being The Hyams Foundation Inc ($1,089,500). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $6,346,496 in grants to CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION?
- The Hyams Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,089,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION 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.
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 43 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