Form 990-EZ for tax year 2024
Filed by CHINESE PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL ACTION INC.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $111,958
- Total expenses
- $79,992
- Contributions and grants received
- $111,958
- Grants paid
- not reported
- Program service revenue
- not reported
- Membership dues (line 3)
- not reported
- Investment income (line 4)
- not reported
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- not reported
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- not reported
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- not reported
- Other revenue (line 8)
- not reported
- Total assets, end of year
- $50,115
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $8,190
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $41,925
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $68,661
Program services were 85.8% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2024
Primary exempt purpose
TO INFORM AND EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT CURRENT SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES AFFECTING CHINESE COMMUNITIES IN MASSACHUSETTS. TO ADVOCATE FOR LEGISLATION AND INITIATIVES TO IMPROVE THE WELFARE, RIGHTS AND BENEFITS OF PEOPLE IN SUCH COMMUNITIES. TO ADVOCATE FOR LEGISLATION AND INITIATIVES FOR FULL EQUALITY WITHIN AND WITHOUT SUCH COMMUNITIES TO ELIMINATE RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION IN MASSACHUSETTS, AND TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL MASSACHUSETTS RESIDENTS, PARTICULARLY FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR. TO SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE CANDIDATES FOR PUBLIC OFFICE WHO SUPPORT SUCH LEGISLATION AND INITIATIVES. TO DEVELOP AND MOBILIZE FINANCIAL, MATERIAL AND VOLUNTEER RESOURCES TO ACHIEVE THE FOREGOING OBJECTIVES.
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CHINESE PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL ACTION, INC. IS A CIVIC ACTION ORGANIZATION, ESTABLISHED BY MEMBERS OF THE CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION, TO EDUCATE AND ORGANIZE AROUND THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES AFFECTING THE MASSACHUSETTS CHINESE COMMUNITY; TO ADVOCATE FOR LEGISLATION TO IMPROVE THE COMMUNITY'S WELFARE AND ELIMINATE INEQUALITY; TO SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE CANDIDATES FOR PUBLIC OFFICE WHO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY'S AGENDA; AND TO MOBILIZE RESOURCES TO ACHIEVE THESE OBJECTIVES.
Expenses $68,661
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part IV
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Karen ChenKAREN CHEN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $146,993
- Compensation
- $3,787
- Benefit plans
- $828
- Expense account
- $142,378
- Hours/week
- 1
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Tom LouieTOM LOUIE
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Chun-Fai ChanCHUN-FAI CHAN
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Lydia LoweLYDIA LOWE
CLERK
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jian Hua TangJIAN HUA TANG
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jenny LauJENNY LAU
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 4 March 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.5
- Source object
- 202610639349200721
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