Asian American Resource Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330749876
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- San Bernardino, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9093830164
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,654,411
- Expenses
- $1,559,064
- Assets
- $3,487,101
- Liabilities
- $93,859
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RASMEY SAM (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- RASMEY SAM (PRESIDENT/CEO): $194,377 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the organization is to improve overall health, and educational well-being by providing informational and developmental programs to asian-americans and other ethnic groups who are low-income, isolated, vulnerable, and under served throughout san bernardino and riverside counties. The organization has a variety of programs to handle various unmet needs, including interpreting services for these groups.
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide educational, informational, and developmental programs to increase the quality of life throughout the asian and minority community. For the tax year, approximately 15,000 clients were served. A major portion of the organizations efforts is in interpreting services for various minority groups.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 96% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.8%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.24; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.5%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.1% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $194K · 5 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.