Ccai

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841208720
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Centennial, CO, USA
Phone
3038509998
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Adoption

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$6,471,482
Expenses
$3,480,275
Assets
$38,597,654
Liabilities
$912,704

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lily Nie (CEO)
  • Joshua Zhong (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Lily Nie (CEO): $187,573 total reported compensation
  • Joshua Zhong (President): $176,631 total reported compensation
  • Ting Dong He (CIO): $126,922 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To find loving parents and permanent homes for as many orphans as possible through intercountry adoption services; To reach out to orphans left behind through donor-driven humanitarian aid; To provide life-long emotional and cultural support to adoptees and families through The Park Adoption Community Center

What it reported doing in 2025

The Park Adoption Community Center: To ensure the success of the adoption, CCAI developed post adoption support systems called the Park Adoption Community Center (The Park) designed to assist the families with the bonding and attachment process, cultural education and emotional support. a. Its Joyous Chinese Cultural Club conducts programs to teach Chinese culture and traditions. b. Its Adopteen and Beyond Adopteen (adults adoptees) programs serves over 3000 adopted American pre-teens, teenagers and adults adoptees each year with Adoptween hangouts, summer camp-conferences, leadership retreats, Adult Adoptee retreats, and caregiver training opportunities. c. Its China Roots program created opportunities for adoptees to return back to China to discover their roots and visit orphanages where they lived prior to adoption.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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 most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 67
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 79
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 68.1%; rating input score 68
  • Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Pass
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 99.2%; rating input score 99; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 46.2%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.09; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.1%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 68.1% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $188K · 10 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 48 of 49 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
  • 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.