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SOUTH BAY CHINESE CULTURE ASSOCIATION

SOUTH BAY CHINESE CULTURE ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$228k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$1.0M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What South Bay Chinese Culture Association does

Mission

Culture. Provids extra curricular programs that are related to chinese culture to improve their understnanding of chinese culture. The school also offers classes to adults.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide a nurturing and stimulating environment for students to learn Chineses language and culture. It strives to instill an awareness of Chinese heritage, and provide bridging programs to non chinese communities.

    $132,965 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $132,965.

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 ($110k) Expenses 100 ($116k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 86 ($94k) Expenses 103 ($119k) Net assets 98 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 97 ($107k) Expenses 95 ($109k) Net assets 97 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 100 ($110k) Expenses 87 ($101k) Net assets 98 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 80 ($88k) Expenses 61 ($71k) Net assets 98 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 92 ($101k) Expenses 79 ($91k) Net assets 91 ($993k)2023 Revenue 64 ($70k) Expenses 106 ($122k) Net assets 86 ($935k)2024 Revenue 131 ($144k) Expenses 110 ($127k) Net assets 88 ($955k)2025 Revenue 208 ($228k) Expenses 115 ($133k) Net assets 96 ($1.0M)
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Revenue (208)Expenses (115)Net assets (96)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 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $999k (−7%).

$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$999k
$966k
$1.0M
$1.1M
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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

3% of SOUTH BAY CHINESE CULTURE 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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$6k
’17
−$25k
’18
−$3k
’19
$9k
’20
$17k
’21
$10k
’22
−$52k
’23
$17k
’24
$95k
’25
96
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.

Board chair

John Chen

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

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Listed91010813101066
Joined·+5+3+1+5+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·43303040
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
funders
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SOUTH BAY CHINESE CULTURE 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.

Where its funders are

100% of SOUTH BAY CHINESE CULTURE 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOUTH BAY CHINESE CULTURE ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin42% · top quartile
Months of reserve95.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

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

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05Profile & 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

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTH BAY CHINESE CULTURE ASSOCIATION: 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 SOUTH BAY CHINESE CULTURE ASSOCIATION?
SOUTH BAY CHINESE CULTURE ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SOUTH BAY CHINESE CULTURE ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to SOUTH BAY CHINESE CULTURE ASSOCIATION.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTH BAY CHINESE CULTURE ASSOCIATION?
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTH BAY CHINESE CULTURE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
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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 1 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