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LA CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST

LA CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $51,000 to it, the largest being ROY AND PATRICIA DISNEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($51,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$690k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$51k
Net assets
$741k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What La Chinatown Community Land Trust does

Mission

LA Chinatown Community Land Trusts mission is to build community power to keep Chinatown livable for low-income and immigrant communities by acquiring property, preserving affordability, and stewarding land for future generations.Its most significant activities include preserving and managing affordable housing, preventing displacement and gentrification, supporting community ownership of land, and protecting Chinatowns cultural fabric and community-centered roots for seniors, immigrants, low-income families, and long-term residents.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. LA Chinatown Community Land Trust works to prevent displacement and preserve community-owned affordable housing in Chinatown. In 2024 to 2025, the organization advanced the 729 Yale Street acquisition effort by engaging tenants, conducting feasibility analysis, pursuing public funding opportunities, and raising over $550,000 to support permanently affordable community-owned housing.

    $31,760 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $31,760.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.

100 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($63k) Expenses 100 ($8k) Net assets 100 ($77k)2025 Revenue 1095 ($690k) Expenses 394 ($32k) Net assets 962 ($741k)
20242025
Revenue (1095)Expenses (394)Net assets (962)Peer revenue range

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 $84k to $741k (+784%).

$84k
$741k
20242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of LA CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,334 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$55k
’24
$658k
’25
235
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of LA CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST’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.

Where its funders are

100% of LA CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LA CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin95% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve234.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)995% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 1%Fundraising 1%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LA CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: 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 LA CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST?
LA CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $51,000 to it, the largest being ROY AND PATRICIA DISNEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($51,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LA CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $51,000 in grants to LA CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST.
Who is the largest funder of LA CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST?
ROY AND PATRICIA DISNEY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $51,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LA CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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