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OAKLAND CHINATOWN CHAMBER FOUNDATION dba OCCF

OAKLAND CHINATOWN CHAMBER FOUNDATION dba OCCF (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $508,460 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($400,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$707k
Revenue FY2024
8
Funders on record
$508k
Grants received
$151k
Net assets
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%

Against its field

OAKLAND CHINATOWN CHAMBER FOUNDATION dba OCCF has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,946 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($326k) Expenses 100 ($172k) Net assets 100 ($215k)2022 Revenue 129 ($420k) Expenses 281 ($483k) Net assets 71 ($152k)2023 Revenue 32 ($106k) Expenses 61 ($104k) Net assets 65 ($141k)2024 Revenue 217 ($707k) Expenses 408 ($701k) Net assets 70 ($151k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (217)Expenses (408)Net assets (70)Peer revenue range

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 26% · 2024 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

79% of OAKLAND CHINATOWN CHAMBER FOUNDATION dba OCCF’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,403 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$154k
21
$63k
22
$1k
23
$6k
24
2.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $15k.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)98% 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 OAKLAND CHINATOWN CHAMBER FOUNDATION dba OCCF’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

OAKLAND CHINATOWN CHAMBER FOUNDATION dba OCCF leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 OAKLAND CHINATOWN CHAMBER FOUNDATION dba OCCF.

79%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 81% · 2022 94% · 2023 66%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

0% of OAKLAND CHINATOWN CHAMBER FOUNDATION dba OCCF's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

98% of OAKLAND CHINATOWN CHAMBER FOUNDATION dba OCCF'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.

IL
MA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

19
21
22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $497k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding OAKLAND CHINATOWN CHAMBER FOUNDATION dba OCCF receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $400k on record.

Federal$400k
grants $400kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$400k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like OAKLAND CHINATOWN CHAMBER FOUNDATION dba OCCF

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OAKLAND CHINATOWN CHAMBER FOUNDATION dba OCCF: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds OAKLAND CHINATOWN CHAMBER FOUNDATION dba OCCF?
OAKLAND CHINATOWN CHAMBER FOUNDATION dba OCCF (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $508,460 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($400,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does OAKLAND CHINATOWN CHAMBER FOUNDATION dba OCCF have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $508,460 in grants to OAKLAND CHINATOWN CHAMBER FOUNDATION dba OCCF, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OAKLAND CHINATOWN CHAMBER FOUNDATION dba OCCF?
EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OAKLAND CHINATOWN CHAMBER FOUNDATION dba OCCF 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing