Bonsai Clubs International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237276301
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Woodridge, IL, USA
- Phone
- 5092516914
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-4,844
- Expenses
- $33,136
- Assets
- $37,461
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHEN CHANG (PRESIDENT)
- SUJATA BHAT (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
- MIN HSUAN LO (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
- FRANK MIHALIC (PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHEN CHANG (PRESIDENT)
- SUJATA BHAT (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
- MIN HSUAN LO (2ND VICE 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. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Educational society for the advancement of the art of bonsai and related art forms
What it reported doing in 2024
Quarterly magazine is published and provided to individual and club members. It is also available to the public through our website. Available to memberships of over 1000 individuals and clubs plus the public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -784.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.13; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -23.9% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $33K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.