Carolina China Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271916917
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9196497407
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,333
- Expenses
- $19,113
- Assets
- $1
- Liabilities
- $13,828
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lian Xie (President)
People named in this filing
- Lian Xie (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 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote economic and cross-cultural development.
What it reported doing in 2021
Planning and hosting the North Carolina-Hunan Province Economic Development Forum.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 5
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 6.6%; rating input score 7
- Program expense ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 1
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -341.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 13,828; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.4% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.4% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.4% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 6.6% of revenue deployed · 1.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $285 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2012 to 2021
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 7/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.