Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE PERFORMING ARTS INC
FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE PERFORMING ARTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $618,250 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($602,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $346k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $618k
- Net assets
- $-15013
What Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts Inc does
Mission
Primary exempt purpose - to promote chinese ethnicand culture through music and performing arts, and to enhance theunderstanding and appreciation of the eastern heritage.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
There is an all-american chinese brush painting and calligraphy competition for age 22 and under. They participate in 8 groups. About 120 entries were accepted. Winners receive a cash award, certificate. Winning artsare exhibited on website and online for photograph and exhibition. Professional jury receive honorarium, travel and meal expenses.
$6,378 spent2% of program spendingFree classical music concerts by 19 outstanding asian musicians. Performers receive travel, hotel and meal expenses. Expenses including site rental, promotion, printing, recording and practice room. They also recieve a cash honorarium. Cash donations and ticket sales are recieved at the door
$279,604 spent90% of program spendingConcerto competition for all pianist up to age 35. There is an application fee of $100 per applicant. Video preliminary with in person tryouts for semifinal and final runs. Jury panel of 10 professional musicians. They receive honorarium, hotel, travel and meals. Winners receive awards and performance with the orchestra.
$23,350 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $309,332.
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 2021 to 2022, from $48k to $5k (−89%).
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. 3 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $66k → $80k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE PERFORMING ARTS 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
FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE PERFORMING ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE PERFORMING ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
97% of FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE PERFORMING ARTS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $16k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $603k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE PERFORMING ARTS 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
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 FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE PERFORMING ARTS 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 FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE PERFORMING ARTS INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE PERFORMING ARTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $618,250 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($602,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE PERFORMING ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $618,250 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE PERFORMING ARTS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE PERFORMING ARTS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $602,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE PERFORMING ARTS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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