Chinese Institute of Engineers USA
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943145793
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Cupertino, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4082422674
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $34,333
- Expenses
- $34,096
- Assets
- $151,731
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PEI-YU CAROL HOU (PRESIDENT)
- ZHI ZEE ZHAI (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PEI-YU CAROL HOU (PRESIDENT)
- ZHI ZEE ZHAI (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JASOPIN LEE (SECRETARY)
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
Cie/us is a non-profit and non-political scientific and educational organization.the mission of cie/USA is to promote communication and the interchange of information among engineers and scientists in the various fields of engineering science who are interested in the well-being of the chinese engineer community in the us and abroad
What it reported doing in 2025
Cie/USA sponsors seminars and technical discussions to provide advanced and updated knowledge to a community of approximately 750 engineers and scientists. Periodically, cie/USA sponsors small seminars and short courses by each engineering group to provide the scientific and high-tech advancement to cie members, students, and the public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.7%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.45; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.