Illinois · Nonprofit
South-East Asia Center
South-East Asia Center (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,624,810 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ($1,577,293). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $7.9M
What South-East Asia Center does
Mission
South-East Asia Center offers essential social services and educational programs targeting low-income limited-english speaking immigrants and refugees.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
South-East Asia Center ("seac") offers educational programs, senior programs and social service programs for low income individuals and families. In addition, seac offers the english as a second language classes. Majority of seacs clients are culturally diverse immigrants and refugees in chicago and cook county.1) the child care programs service families with children from 6 weeks old to 13years old. For children aged 6 weeks to pre-school, seac operates classrooms full-time m-f. For school aged children, seac operates after-school program with fulldays on school holidays as well as in the summer months. The programs are closed for the seven holidays. Seacs unique curriculum is based on the organizations mission to build bridges between cultures. Seac operates four sites: 1124-1138 w. Ainslie, 5120 n. Broadway, 4901-4915 n. Broadway and 1112 w. Foster in chicago. All are licensed by the illinois department of human services. Seac operates pre-school for all at-risk children funded by the chicago department family support services. The low-income families are subsidized by chicago department of family support services and the illinois action for children. Meals and snacks are…
$1,975,021 spent$415,566 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,975,021.
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 2024 to 2025, from $7.4M to $8.0M (+9%).
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: 2021 86% · 2022 88% · 2023 83% · 2024 81% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of South-East Asia Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100k → $205k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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-East Asia 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
South-East Asia Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
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 South-East Asia Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 95% · 2020 100% · 2021 88% · 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 South-East Asia Center's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
South-East Asia Center runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like South-East Asia 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 South-East Asia 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 South-East Asia Center?
- South-East Asia Center (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,624,810 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ($1,577,293). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does South-East Asia Center have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,624,810 in grants to South-East Asia Center, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of South-East Asia Center?
- ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS is the largest funder on record, with $1,577,293 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like South-East Asia 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.
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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 2021–2025), 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