California · Nonprofit
Citizens for Better Community
Citizens for Better Community (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,450 to it, the largest being GSI EFOUNDATION ($1,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Citizens for Better Community does
Mission
To initiate, sponsor and promote community events, which will affect the well being of chinese american with emphasis on education, health, business and community involvement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
During the current year, Citizens for Better Community sponsored various local non profit organizations and events for the benefit of the local community.
$5,699 spent100% of program spendingDuring the current year, Citizens for Better Community organized various events and celebrations to bring unity and harmony among local community members.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,699.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $58k to $32k (−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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of Citizens for Better Community’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
Citizens for Better Community leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 88% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of Citizens for Better Community's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like Citizens for Better Community
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Citizens for Better Community: 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 Citizens for Better Community?
- Citizens for Better Community (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,450 to it, the largest being GSI EFOUNDATION ($1,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Citizens for Better Community have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $3,450 in grants to Citizens for Better Community, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Citizens for Better Community?
- GSI EFOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Citizens for Better Community find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 5 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