La Chinatown Community Land Trust
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882089972
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6268078037
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing Development, Construction, Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $689,965
- Expenses
- $32,419
- Assets
- $740,723
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Elise Dang (President)
People named in this filing
- Elise Dang (President)
- Karen Law (Secretary)
- Andy Chan (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
LA Chinatown Community Land Trusts mission is to build community power to keep Chinatown livable for low-income and immigrant communities by acquiring property, preserving affordability, and stewarding land for future generations.Its most significant activities include preserving and managing affordable housing, preventing displacement and gentrification, supporting community ownership of land, and protecting Chinatowns cultural fabric and community-centered roots for seniors, immigrants, low-income families, and long-term residents.
What it reported doing in 2025
LA Chinatown Community Land Trust works to prevent displacement and preserve community-owned affordable housing in Chinatown. In 2024 to 2025, the organization advanced the 729 Yale Street acquisition effort by engaging tenants, conducting feasibility analysis, pursuing public funding opportunities, and raising over $550,000 to support permanently affordable community-owned housing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 95
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4.6%; rating input score 5
- Program expense ratio: 98%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: $3,349.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 95.3%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 22.85; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 166.5% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 159.3% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 4.6% of revenue deployed · 98% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 5/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.