Chinese United Methodist Church
Legal name: Chinese Methodist Center Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 132876091
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
- Phone
- (212) 267 6464
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $280,080
- Expenses
- $317,516
- Assets
- $280,433
- Liabilities
- $38,128
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REGINA LIE-SEID (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CHRISTOPHER WONG (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CUI JIN CHU (BOARD PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- REGINA LIE-SEID (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $32,525 total reported compensation
- XIAODAN AMANDA LIN (TREASURER): $26,725 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To experience the love of Christ and make Him known. From a small Bible study group in 1966 came the birth of the Chinese United Methodist Church (CUMC). Meeting at the historic Five Points Mission building on the corner of Madison Street and Catherine Street, the Chinese-speaking Bible study grew into a church with both Chinese and English language ministries serving the Lower East Side community. On May 1, 2016, the English language ministry was renamed ARISE with the purpose of reaching the next generation with the message of God's love and grace. + Our Beliefs.
What it reported doing in 2024
The cmcc on-site and remote after-school programs operated from september to june providing homework assistance and tutoring services to school-age children and youth, monday to friday from 2:30 to 6:00 pm. In addition to academic support and enrichment, students were served a home-cooked nutritious supper meal daily on-site. Ninety-percent of students enrolled made improvements in their academics. Each semester at least twenty dedicated cmcc team members worked together to positively impact students.
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 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 87
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.4%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $294K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $33K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.