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FY 2024

Verified NonprofitLast Filed 2024EIN 23-7404756

Chinese Progressive Association

San Francisco, CANTEE: E73ZFounded 1972Website

mission statement

CPA organizes working class chinese immigrant adults and youth to increase their voices through social justice direct action campaigns and leadership development. Our work within our tenant worker center and youth organizing work allows our member/leaders to learn about and engage in issues most effecting our community.

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Total Revenue

$22.9M

FY 2024

Program Spending

77.5%

of total expenses

Known Funders

158

2019–2024 filings

Key Metrics (FY 2024)

The Numbers

$32.5M

Total Assets

$31.3M net

20.47 mo

Operating Reserves

FY 2024

Active Programs

FY 2024

Sector

NTEE E73Z

Funding Track Record

Backed by 158 Institutional Funders

$84.1M raised across 455 grants · +$13.7M committed (2019–2024 filings)

Funder Geography

Funders across 21 states (2019–2024 filings)

Institutional Funding by Year

PaidCommittedBoth

Funder	Location	Total Awarded
The James Irvine Foundation	San Francisco, CA	$10,888,425 +$1,012,500 committed
Silicon Valley Community Foundation	Mountain View, CA	$9,199,700
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc	WASHINGTON, DC	$5,661,900
Freedom Together Foundation	NEW YORK, NY	$5,320,000 +$2,250,000 committed
The San Francisco Foundation	SAN FRANCISCO, CA	$4,424,950
Foundation to Promote Open Society	NEW YORK, NY	$4,025,000
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	PRINCETON, NJ	$3,810,000 +$2,000,000 committed
The California Endowment	LOS ANGELES, CA	$3,250,000 +$2,237,500 committed
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc	NEW YORK, NY	$2,050,000
Tides Foundation	SAN FRANCISCO, CA	$1,620,250

Total tracked: $84,092,758 across 455 grants · +$13,743,409 committed across 46 commitments (2019–2024 filings)

Totals reflect grants as reported on funder tax returns. Timing may not match recipient revenue: funder and recipient fiscal years often differ, and grants paid by a funder in one year may be recognized by the recipient in a different year.

Programs (FY 2024)

What They Do

$11.2M in expenses

CPA's fiscal sponsorship program further supports community education, promotes civic participation, and provides direct services, such as access to healthy food, language access, and community garden. Other CPA programs include a structured voter education of youth and adults to promote civic participation.

$1.8M in expenses

The community healing & solidarity program engages, educates, and organizes working-class communities of color to develop class-based interventions and alternatives to public safety. Over 150 community members engaged in political education, intergenerational and cultural exchanges, and restorative justice training to have generative dialogue around safety, healing and solidarity. CHS also builds strategic multi-racial alliances to respond to community needs around violence, safety, healing, and accountability while strengthening regional and national grassroots capacity to collaborate and coordinate on narrative and policy strategies.

$750K in expenses

Tenant worker center (TWC) - conducts outreach and education to low-wage immigrant workers and sro tenants about san francisco and ca labor laws and tenant rights, provides consultation on workplace violations and referral to legal and other support services. In 2024, TWC educated over 7,000 workers and provided consultation and support services to over 200 workers and sro tenants.

$423K in expenses

Youth mojo (movement of justice and organizing) develops the leadership of low-income chinese / asian american high school youth to create change in their communities through community education, leadership development and hands-on civic projects. In 2024, youth mojo engaged over 60 youth in summer and school year programs.

Financial History