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CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

EIN 94-6122446 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2023
$1,949,631
Expenses 2023
$1,517,134

Program services were 66.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A82Z
Classification
2000
Street
965 CLAY ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

CHSA is dedicated to the documentation, study, and presentation of Chinese American history. Through exhibitions, publications, and educational,public programming, CHSA promotes contributions and legacy of Chinese America.

  • Commenced planning for CHSAs production of a new immersive exhibit, We are Bruce Lee.Sponsored the producers of a documentary about music journalist Ben Fong Torres, titled Like a Rolling Stone.Provided talent and historical consultation to Smithsonian TV and Vox for avideo documentary about San Francisco Chinatown. Partnered in a multi-agency collaboration to acquire and operate a newnonprofit arts, media and historical preservation facility in San Francisco Chinatown Featured articles on Chinese-Cambodian Americans in its 2020 publication ofits scholarly journal, History and Perspectives. See Part III, Ln 4a statement

    Expenses $1,001,798

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Justin Hoover

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $143,073
    From this org
    $116,516
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,557
    Hours/week
    40
  • Alvina Chou

    COO

    Total calculated
    $123,285
    From this org
    $112,708
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,577
    Hours/week
    40
  • Douglas S Chan

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12
  • Walter Lim

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Jeff Tsai

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12
  • Matthew Huey

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Alvin Lau

    Board Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Andy Bryant

    Board Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Elsie Lam

    Board Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Gorretti Lui

    Board Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Johnny Wang

    Board Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kenneth Wun

    Board Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lily Ho

    Board Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lydia So

    Board Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, 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. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,949,631
    Expenses
    $1,517,134
    Contributions
    $1,901,635
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,946,946
    Expenses
    $1,576,266
    Contributions
    $1,423,513
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,101,546
    Expenses
    $908,714
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,947,691
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $618,278
    Expenses
    $588,801
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,832,286
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $677,556
    Expenses
    $827,336
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,707,761
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,011,991
    Expenses
    $671,889
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,859,165
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $600,093
    Expenses
    $569,374
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,583,454
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $574,521
    Expenses
    $568,172
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,556,863
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $414,143
    Expenses
    $653,776
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,551,343

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.