Chinese School Andover
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043769173
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Andover, MA, USA
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $103,250
- Expenses
- $138,779
- Assets
- $135,792
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ying Shen (President)
People named in this filing
- Honglang Zhang (Chairman of the Board)
- Ying Shen (President)
- Jian Lu (Director)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Chinese School Andover CSA established in August 2003 is a volunteer-based 501c3 non-profit non-political and non-religious organization. CSA focuses on providing Chinese language education and promoting cross-cultural exchange in the Merrimack Valley and surrounding local communities in the New England area. Chinese School Andover is also a cultural and social forum for people of all ages races color religion and genders who are interested in Chinese history and Chinese culture. It is the mission of CSA to have a Chinese school for everyone.
What it reported doing in 2024
Improve the service capabilities with trainings and online equipment with new registration site and classroom management application etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 73.7%; rating input score 74
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -34.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99% of revenue deployed · 73.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $102K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.