California · Nonprofit
Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council
Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,800 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $78k
- Net assets
- $475k
What Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council does
Mission
Our mission is to empower and unite the vibrant Chinatown community through social, cultural, and economic development, improving the quality of life for all residents. We achieve this by preserving heritage, promoting inclusivity, and implementing innovative programs to address the unique needs and aspirations of our diverse community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
OCIC, as a Community Benefits District(CBD), is a long-term solution to make our community feel safe, clean, and welcoming again. OCIC provides safety and cleanliness through ambassadors and security services, graffiti abatement,promotion of the unique qualities of our Chinatown and its businesses, management of events within our cultural district, coordination of volunteer efforts in Oakland Chinatown, and more.
$1,244,573 spentof which $1,261,849 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,244,573.
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.
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 $11k to $537k (+4654%).
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: 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Improvement Council’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 Improvement Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Improvement Council.
“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
63% of Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council: 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 Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council?
- Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,800 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $77,800 in grants to Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council.
- Who is the largest funder of Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council 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.
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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 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 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