Chen Chou Lin and Lee Foundation
Overview
Mission
Taxpayer is a public charity organization organized and operated exclusively for charitable purpose, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual, no substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, and which does not participate in any political campaign.
What it reported doing in 2024
Public charity organization
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475539763
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Temple City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6262026678
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $46,640
- Expenses
- $38,450
- Assets
- $109,725
- Liabilities
- $5,364
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 96.2%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.6%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.85; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -83.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.3% of revenue deployed · 96.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $37K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 annual filings from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- CHIN LING LIN (President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024.