Celadon Youth Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260594759
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9086018649
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $46,220
- Expenses
- $45,037
- Assets
- $1,183
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anchi Lin (Founder & President)
People named in this filing
- Anchi Lin (Founder & President)
- Julian Gau (Music Director & Conductor)
- Frances Young (Director of Operations)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Missions and Objectives of Celadon Youth: To share the beauty of ancient Asian music & art forms with the local community To bridge the gap between contemporary Western musical and theatrical education and traditional heritages from the East To provide a learning opportunity for younger generation to learn and perform ancient musical instruments, musical and performing styles To provide community service opportunities and leadership challenges for the Celadon Youth members To support and collaborate with local music, dance and art groups in promotion of cultural and social appreciations of traditional Asian music & arts
What it reported doing in 2025
On May 10, 2025, Celadon Youth was invited to celebrate the Asian Heritage Month by the Glow Cultural Center, NYC, located in Flushing, Queens, NYC to deliver a 120-minute performance under the title of Love & Unity - Asian Heritage Month Performance. In the event, Celadon Youth delivered 12 performance pieces, including solo pieces of Guzheng, Dizi, Bili, and ensemble pieces covering music from Korea, Japan, and different regions of China. 12 musicians, including 4 student performers participated in this performance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.2%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.6%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.2% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $38K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.