Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER
GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,723,894 to it, the largest being National Asian Pacific Center on Aging ($6,085,463). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center does
Mission
To promote the general welfare and independence of asian elders via a network of culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate programs and services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nutrition program - prepares hot chinese-style meals for elders in the greater boston area served in a congregate meal site setting or delivered to the clients at their homes. All meals are nutritionally balanced and are prepared under the supervision of a registered dietician. The dietician also provides nutrition education to participating clients and agency staff.
$8,693,792 spent71% of program spendingAdult day health (adh) - provides cost-effective health care and support services to frail elders and disabled adults in group settings supervised by registered nurses. The organization operates three adh sites in the greater boston area.
$1,956,028 spent$2,787,179 earned by the program16% of program spendingSenior aid - training and employment placement opportunities are provided to seniors age 55 and older who also meet low-income guidelines. Participants are paid minimum wage during the training period.
$458,856 spent$69,494 earned by the program4% of program spendingThe organization offers 28 social service and other programs aimed at enabling asian elders to live healthy independent lives. These services include health training, counseling, interpretation, help with public assistance applications and other issues, esl and citizenship classes, information and referral services, community outreach and recreational programs.
$1,209,478 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,318,154.
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 2022 to 2023, from $9.7M to $14M (+42%).
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 7% · 2023 82% · 2024 78% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Ruth C Moy
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $776k → $932k.
4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER’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
GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 95% · 2019 95% · 2020 65% · 2021 82% · 2022 71% · 2023 68% — 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
50% of GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $191k 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.
Against its field
GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- On Luck Housing Development Inc Dba Hong Lok House · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER?
- GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,723,894 to it, the largest being National Asian Pacific Center on Aging ($6,085,463). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $7,723,894 in grants to GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER?
- National Asian Pacific Center on Aging is the largest funder on record, with $6,085,463 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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