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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $600 to it, the largest being MY Charitable Foundation ($600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- —
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $600
- Net assets
- $41k
What Southern California Foundation For does
Mission
Charitable
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The foundation has continued to work on publishing the first historical book a legacy magnified a generation of chinese americans in southern california 1980s to 2010s
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $2k to $48k (+1987%).
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.
100% of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
May T Chen
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR’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
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR's revenue fell 99% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR: 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR?
- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $600 to it, the largest being MY Charitable Foundation ($600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $600 in grants to SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR?
- MY Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR 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 2017–2024), 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