Illinois · Nonprofit
PUI TAK CENTER
PUI TAK CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $988,031 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($332,650). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $988k
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Pui Tak Center does
Mission
The Pui Tak Center was established to be a Christian witness to the Chinese community in greater Chicago through educational, family, and community services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult education and training department english as a second language classes (esl): Pui Tak Center has one of illinois largest community-based adult esl programs. Students have a variety of goals including getting a better job, becoming a u.s citizen or conversing with those outside of chinatown. We offer esl classes at six different levels from pre-literacy to advanced. Our citizenship class helps students prepare for their naturalization interview. Classes are offered weekday mornings, weekday evenings and saturdays. Late morning classes include conversation and pronunciation. 996 students received at least 12 hours of instruction in fy2025.adult volunteer tutoring: most of our adult esl (english as a second language) students have few opportunities outside the classroom to practice their english. The adult volunteer tutoring program offers one-on-one tutoring and classes taught by volunteers. 129 students receive these supplemental services in fy2025. Food service sanitation certification: Pui Tak Center's restaurant sanitation courses provides students with the knowledge and certifications needed to succeed in the food industry. Courses are offered in cantonese, mandarin, and…
$1,686,921 spent$68,188 earned by the program56% of program spendingCommunity departmentimmigrant welcoming center: immigrants are unfamiliar with most aspects of living in chicago. Our immigrant welcoming center provides information and referral, case management, crisis intervention and educational workshops. 1290 immigrants and others with limited english proficiency received assistance through the immigrant welcoming center in fy2025.disability services: our disability services provides individualized support, advocacy and training to families affected by disabilities. Our 1 corinthians 1:27 family support group fosters relationships so that families affected by disabilities can support each other. Poiema community day services equips young adults affected by disability with life skills training and prepare them for work opportunities.home based support services assists families who receive government funding that enables family members with disabilities to receive services in their home and community. In fy2025, 83 families received support.hope counseling services: Pui Tak Center opened hope counseling services to provide mental health counseling to both chinatown community members and the christian community in greater chicagoland. The…
$597,522 spent$112,932 earned by the program20% of program spendingChildren & youth department - Pui Tak Center offers academic support and enrichment programs to elementary and high school students after school and during the summer. Academic support include tutoring, esl classes and college preparation classes. The enrichment programs includes service learning opportunities and computer coding. In addition, the youth program offers internships that expose youth to education and community services. In fy2025, 221 children and 369 youth participated in our programs.
$445,102 spent$254,292 earned by the program15% of program spendingHISTORIC PRESERVATION - The Organization received and expended a grant from the State of Illinois for historic preservation of the building which is a City of Chicago Landmark and has a pending application to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a site of national significance.
$250,000 spent8% of program spendingOutreach department- the outreach ministry, in partnership with chinese christian union church, meets the spiritual needs of community members. Activities includes: american culture class, english corner, bible studies, holiday events and personal spiritual care.
$24,630 spentof which $24,000 as grants$65 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,004,175.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $2.5M to $4.2M (+64%).
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: 2018 59% · 2021 78% · 2023 55% · 2024 69% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of PUI TAK CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $72k → $99k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 PUI TAK 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
PUI TAK CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
76% 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 PUI TAK CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 37% · 2019 47% · 2020 24% · 2021 33% · 2022 31% · 2023 25% — 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
54% of PUI TAK CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
54% of PUI TAK CENTER'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 $452k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $536k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
PUI TAK CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 369 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 369 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PUI TAK 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 Illinois
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
88%
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 PUI TAK CENTER: 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 PUI TAK CENTER?
- PUI TAK CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $988,031 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($332,650). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PUI TAK CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $988,031 in grants to PUI TAK CENTER, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUI TAK CENTER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $332,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUI TAK CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 21 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