Illinois · Nonprofit
COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC
COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC (Illinois) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,065,530 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($800,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community Cbcac does
Mission
The coalition for a better chinese american community (cbcac) unites the resources of member organizations and indivdual members to empower chinese american communities in greater chicago. As a coalition member organizations and individuals cbcac carries out its mission through civic eucation, issue advocacy, communication with policy makers, and community mobilization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community planning - the organization works towards a sustainable future by leading chinatown's urban planning and development, building on the framework developed in the award-winning chinatown community vision plan.
$412,609 spent$4,301 earned by the program54% of program spendingCivic engagement - the organization aims to amplify the community's voices through civic engagement. The organization have registered thousands of new voters since 2008 and helped voters navigate through language and cultural barriersto cast their barriers.
$128,309 spent17% of program spendingCivic leadership - the organization works to provide a connection with the community to support each other and become stronger. The organization has phone banked to provide covid-19 support, emergency rental application assistance, and other services.
$122,425 spent16% of program spendingOther programs - the organization works with aapi youth in chicago to create positive change by learning about identity, building leadership skills, and engaging in communitiies.
$105,268 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $768,611.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $891k to $1.6M (+76%).
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: 2019 21% · 2020 36% · 2021 16% · 2022 6% · 2023 2% · 2024 44% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $77k → $409k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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
COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 43% · 2021 37% · 2022 56% · 2023 67% — 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
75% of COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
92% of COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $374k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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 COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC: 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 COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC?
- COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC (Illinois) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,065,530 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($800,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,065,530 in grants to COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC?
- JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), 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