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SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,407 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($21,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$122k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$32k
Net assets
$1.9M
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What San Fernando Valley Chinese Cultural Association does

Mission

The San Fernando Valley Chinese Cultural Association (sfvcca) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the preservation and celebration of the splendors of chinese civilization. Sfvcca is deeply committed to promoting nutual understanding, respect, and diversity among the many comunities which make up los angeles through cultural exchange and interation.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. We seek to fulfill the follwoing goals:1. Provide quality instruction in the chinese language and chinese cultural activities.2. Instil students with a depper understanding of chinese heritage.3. Encourage people of all backgrounds to joint togeter in the appreciation of our diversity and common humanity.

    $68,044 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $68,044.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($159k) Expenses 100 ($129k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 136 ($217k) Expenses 84 ($109k) Net assets 109 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 178 ($284k) Expenses 97 ($125k) Net assets 123 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 78 ($124k) Expenses 75 ($97k) Net assets 125 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 111 ($177k) Expenses 60 ($77k) Net assets 134 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 85 ($136k) Expenses 90 ($116k) Net assets 135 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 231 ($367k) Expenses 86 ($111k) Net assets 157 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 127 ($202k) Expenses 106 ($136k) Net assets 163 ($1.9M)2025 Revenue 77 ($122k) Expenses 85 ($110k) Net assets 164 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (77)Expenses (85)Net assets (164)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 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $1.8M (+16%).

$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.8M
$1.9M
$1.9M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 13% · 2023 4% · 2024 18% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

28% of SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
’17
$108k
’18
$158k
’19
$27k
’20
$99k
’21
$20k
’22
$256k
’23
$66k
’24
$13k
’25
89
months of
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.

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Listed332222333
Joined·+1·····+0+0
No longer listed·1·····00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $13k → $9k.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION’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

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97% 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 SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

65%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 79% · 2023 93% — 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.

Where its funders are

97% of SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

NC

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

’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve89.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 34%Fundraising 4%

Governance

9
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited 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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION?
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,407 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($21,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $32,407 in grants to SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $21,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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