Asian American Resource Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
141970703
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2010
Location
Austin, TX, USA
Phone
5122715823
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Recreational Centers

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,006,157
Expenses
$928,486
Assets
$634,480
Liabilities
$102,974

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Hailey Easley (Executive Director)
  • Melissa Tung (President)
  • Tejas Bommakanti (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Hailey Easley (Executive Director): $105,003 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To improve the health and well-being of Asians and Asian Americans in Central Texas through education advocacy and support. A new contracted outreach program with Central Health began to conduct community outreach for the Medical Access Program providing culturally and linguistically appropriate health information and enrollment support.

What it reported doing in 2024

AACHIs Community Health Navigator program funded in partnership with Austin Public Health served 331 residents of Austin and Travis County during the fiscal year. Community Health Workers assisted clients with enrolling in or maintaining health coverage including private insurance Medicare Medicaid ACA plans and local coverage options such as the Medical Access Program. As a result 95.4 percent of clients successfully obtained or maintained health coverage during the reporting period. AACHI also helped clients overcome language and system barriers to medical care. Staff scheduled more than 1,000 medical appointments and accompanied clients to over 750 appointments to provide interpretation patient advocacy and transportation support as needed. These services supported consistent access to care for clients and their families. AACHI launched a new partnership with Central Health to conduct community outreach for the Medical Access Program a local healthcare coverage program for uninsured residents. Through this partnership AACHI completed more than 5,000 community touchpoints over approximately 380 hours of contracted outreach work increasing awareness and use of available health services among underserved Asian American communities. AACHI also partnered with the City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department and Austin Public Health to organize a language accessible community health fair. The event served more than 430 individuals and provided culturally and linguistically appropriate health information screenings and referrals. In addition to direct services AACHI strengthened organizational infrastructure and partnerships. The organization expanded multilingual website content in Arabic Burmese Chinese English Korean Nepali and Vietnamese. AACHI also improved referral coordination with CommUnity Care and implemented its first digital case management system to support secure data management and more efficient client services.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 85% 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

STRONG - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 85
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.2%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 88.8%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: $101.99 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 7.7%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.3%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82.2% of revenue deployed · 88.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $824K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $105K · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.