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SUN YAT SEN CHINESE INSTITUTE INC

SUN YAT SEN CHINESE INSTITUTE INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being UNITED CHARITY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$90k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$6k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Sun Yat Sen Chinese Institute Inc does

Mission

Teach chinese language and culture

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Operate schools in cities of monterey park, los angeles in the state of ca

    $0 spentof which $85,934 as grants

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 100 ($233) Net assets 0 ($0)2020 Revenue 100 ($43k) Expenses 17436 ($41k) Net assets 100 ($12k)2021 Revenue 47 ($20k) Expenses 7464 ($17k) Net assets 123 ($15k)2022 Revenue 77 ($34k) Expenses 15219 ($35k) Net assets 107 ($13k)2023 Revenue 152 ($66k) Expenses 27063 ($63k) Net assets 129 ($16k)2024 Revenue 220 ($95k) Expenses 36188 ($84k) Net assets 219 ($27k)2025 Revenue 207 ($90k) Expenses 47459 ($111k) Net assets 51 ($6k)
2018202020212022202320242025
Revenue (207)Expenses (47459)Net assets (51)

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 $27k to $6k (−77%).

$8k
$12k
$15k
$13k
$16k
$27k
$6k
2018202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$233
’18
$3k
’20
$3k
’21
−$2k
’22
$3k
’23
$11k
’24
−$21k
’25
03Who funds it

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 SUN YAT SEN CHINESE INSTITUTE INC’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

SUN YAT SEN CHINESE INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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

67%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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 SUN YAT SEN CHINESE INSTITUTE INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUN YAT SEN CHINESE INSTITUTE INC: 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 SUN YAT SEN CHINESE INSTITUTE INC?
SUN YAT SEN CHINESE INSTITUTE INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being UNITED CHARITY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SUN YAT SEN CHINESE INSTITUTE INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,500 in grants to SUN YAT SEN CHINESE INSTITUTE INC.
Who is the largest funder of SUN YAT SEN CHINESE INSTITUTE INC?
UNITED CHARITY 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 SUN YAT SEN CHINESE INSTITUTE INC 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 2018–2025), 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