Angel Shine Foundation
Legal name: Angel Shine Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471665272
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3232433454
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $297,685
- Expenses
- $262,253
- Assets
- $58,681
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALLYSON TANG (President)
People named in this filing
- ALLYSON TANG (President)
- KATHERINE NEWHOUSE MELE (Chairman)
- TILER PECK (Director)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
ASF was established in 2014 to provide scholarships to gifted children in need, and to support the arts worldwide—positively impacting children of all abilities across six continents and in more than 49 countries through financial support and partnerships. Dream big or don’t dream at all. It might be destiny that the word “Ally” appears in my name because my life’s mission is to be an ally for children, a champion of their dreams. Every child has been blessed with a unique gift and without support, that dream might be lost. Empowering children to reach their highest potential enables their inner light to shine. My life’s journey is the human spirit’s quest to transform tragedy into triumph. Born in a war torn country, surviving a refugee camp, raised by my courageous mother with four siblings, as a child immigrant to the U.S. – these challenges propelled me to have an unshakeable...
What it reported doing in 2024
Our global mission is to help children in need achieve their highest potential through scholarship in the arts. We provide financial support in the form of grants to art programs worldwide. Through arts activities such as dance, music and painting, we bring joy and healing to children who have courageously survived challenging life experiences. Our Foundation provides creative missions to orphanages, hospitals and schools. We have completed missions in North America, Africa, Asia and Europe.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
MIXED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 59
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.6%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.9%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.6% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $249K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 21 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.