Chinese Youth Camp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460893335
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $240,117
- Expenses
- $223,624
- Assets
- $316,165
- Liabilities
- $114,391
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Amy Wang (Camp Director): $3,400 total reported compensation
- Valentina Chen (Vice Camp Director): $2,200 total reported compensation
- Winston Hung (Advisory Director): $1,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CYC is organized and shall be operated exclusively for nonprofit purposes, including, but not limited to, promoting Chinese culture, developing young Asian American leaders and encouraging fellowship among Asian Americans, through an annual summer camp. Throughout the day, campers attend classes taught by talent show, dance party, mini-Olympics, just to name a few. These activities help to foster an environment in which children can learn about Chinese heritage, gain leadership, and build lifelong friendships. Additionally, This corporation is organized exclusively for one or more of the purposes as specified in Section 501(c)(3) Internal Revenue Code.
What it reported doing in 2024
Houston Chinese Youth Camp is a 501c3 non-profit organization that hosts a week-long camp where students ages 8-18 can learn about Chinese heritage, gain leadership, and build lifelong friendships. Throughout the day, campers attend classes taught by experienced teachers on different aspects of the Chinese culture, such as: Dragon Dance, Chinese Yo-yo, Folk Dance, Chinese Dodgeball, Chinese Arts & Crafts. In the evening, various activities are held, such as a Chinese dodgeball tournament talent show, dance party, mini-Olympics, just to name a few. These activities help to foster an environment in which children can grow personally via leadership opportunities or simply through making friends. Prior to camp, we provided leadership training to our counselors and assistant counselors as well as organizational/business training to new volunteers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 97% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.3%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.9%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.41; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.7%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $224K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.