New York · Nonprofit
US-CHINA CULTURAL INSTITUTE INC
US-CHINA CULTURAL INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $400k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $23k
What Us-China Cultural Institute Inc does
Mission
To create bridges of understanding through the arts and education, believing that these are important means to bring the necessary human understanding between china and the west for peaceful world relations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
New York Philharmonic - USCCI supported the U.S. premiere of migr, a multimedia oratorio co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, by renowned film composer Aaron Zigman with lyrics by Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist Mark Campbell and lyricist Brock Walsh. Emigr reflects an important story of the 20,000 Jewish exiles who escaped the Third Reich and found refuge in Shanghai between 1933-1941.
$87,187 spent25% of program spendingPhiladelphia Orchestra - Through the Philadelphia Orchestra, USCCI commissioned the Grammy-winning contemporary composer Mason Bates for a new work inspired by Spring Flower Rivers By Moonlight, an extraordinary poem of the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 A.D.). The remarkable craft, lyricism, and humanistic spirit associated with Tang-era poetry resonates across time and cultures, making it an ideal vehicle for cultivating human understanding between nations. The work was premiered during the Orchestras 2024 China Tour.
$86,722 spent25% of program spendingChamber Music Society - USCCI supported the China tour of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center from October 17 to November 4, 2024, which included concerts and educational master classes for communities in Hong Kong, Macao, Shenzhen, and Tianjin (home of Tianjin Juilliard).
$86,561 spent25% of program spendingAsian Pacific Art Council - USCCI provided a special grant to the Asian Pacific Art Councils annual classical voice training program iSing to prepare for its performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra in the 2024-205 season.
$86,561 spent25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $347,031.
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 2017 to 2018, from $223k to $78k (−65%).
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 US-CHINA CULTURAL INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Henry Tang
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $27k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest US - China Cultural Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money US-CHINA CULTURAL INSTITUTE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of US-CHINA CULTURAL 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
US-CHINA CULTURAL INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% 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 US-CHINA CULTURAL INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 94% — diversifying over time.
“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
68% of US-CHINA CULTURAL INSTITUTE INC'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.
Against its field
US-CHINA CULTURAL INSTITUTE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like US-CHINA CULTURAL INSTITUTE INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
10%
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 US-CHINA CULTURAL 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 US-CHINA CULTURAL INSTITUTE INC?
- US-CHINA CULTURAL INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does US-CHINA CULTURAL INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $36,500 in grants to US-CHINA CULTURAL INSTITUTE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of US-CHINA CULTURAL INSTITUTE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like US-CHINA CULTURAL INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 4 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