California · Nonprofit
Santa Barbara Chinese School
Santa Barbara Chinese School (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,041 to it, the largest being THE FARVIEW FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $65k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $77k
What Santa Barbara Chinese School does
Mission
The Santa Barbara Chinese School is committed to providing excellence in Chinese language instruction and services. We create and offer educational programs that enable learners to discover and develop an appreciation for the evolving richness of the Chinese language and culture. We serve as a bridge between our students and the larger Chinese learning community by offering our Chinese language and cultural enrichment programs tutoring services homework support training mentorship and educational consultation services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Weekend Chinese Classes In Person - To maximize learning capacity our classes catered to younger children beginning-intermediate are offered on Saturday & Sunday mornings between 9 am and noon in 1.5-hour stretches. Intermediate Advanced and Adult classes are currently offered on Sunday afternoons and may be adjusted each term according to student enrollment. Weekend classes are usually held on UCSB campus.
$13,381 spent44% of program spendingOnline Class - we offer online classes for those who can not attend in person classes
$8,889 spent29% of program spendingChinese Club After School Program -In an effort to offer more practice during the week we partner with various schools to provide play-based after school enrichment classes.
$8,051 spent27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,321.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7 → $16.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Santa Barbara Chinese School’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
Santa Barbara Chinese School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Santa Barbara Chinese School's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Santa Barbara Chinese School runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Santa Barbara Chinese School
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Santa Barbara Chinese School: 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 Santa Barbara Chinese School?
- Santa Barbara Chinese School (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,041 to it, the largest being THE FARVIEW FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Santa Barbara Chinese School have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,041 in grants to Santa Barbara Chinese School, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Santa Barbara Chinese School?
- THE FARVIEW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Santa Barbara Chinese School 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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