California · Nonprofit
TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES
TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,158,018 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($1,200,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Taiwan Center Foundation of Greater Los Angeles does
Mission
*To support activities which foster public knowledge and appreciation of Taiwanese culture and heritage.*To serve as a forum where Taiwanese Americans of Southern California may voice concerns of mutual interest in a concerted and coordinated effort with allied non-profit groups and with the community.*To strengthen the bond between the people of Taiwan and people of the U.S.*To promote and protect the general welfare of Taiwanese Americans.*To promote and encourage community and civic spirit among Taiwanese Americans of Southern California.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In a variety of capacities, the foundation acted in different roles of the following activities:1.Events sponsored, planned and held solely by foundation including fund raising events, New Year banquets, Christmas charity activities, Miss Taiwanese American Pageant, and annual meetings; also the immediate response to bring aids from Taiwanese Americans to emergency situations that arise.2. Events co-sponsored by the foundation in conjunction with other organizations including citizenship workshop, energy saving education fair, community volunteer service, voters' registration, and U.S. census education etc.3. Events coordinated by the foundation and sponsored by various organizations: such as the Taiwanese-American heritage week celebrations; this annual event brings over thousands of people together to enjoy and learn about Taiwanese-American culture, enhancing the harmonious relationship between different ethnicity groups in America.4. The foundation sponsors activities which bring people together regularly for recreational and education purposes such as Taiwan center chorus, Taiwan center table tennis team, dancing classes for health and social purposes, computer classes,…
$330,102 spent$226,088 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $330,102.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $12M to $15M (+23%).
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: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Simon J Lin
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $26k → $166k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES’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
TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 43% · 2019 81% · 2020 81% · 2021 61% · 2022 68% · 2023 26% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
31% of TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES'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. Of the $1.0M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES?
- TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,158,018 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($1,200,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,158,018 in grants to TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing