Creative China Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822116927
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Garden City, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6464601906
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,664
- Expenses
- $84,355
- Assets
- $19,464
- Liabilities
- $255,745
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- QIAO CUI (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- QIAO CUI (PRESIDENT)
- YIXUE SHAO (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Creative china center is a nonprofit arts and cultural organization, dedicated to advancing the understanding and appreciation of chinese contemporary arts and culture to international audiences. It provides cultural exchange platforms for artists, organizations and individuals in china and the us to gather, collaborate, and create.
What it reported doing in 2025
Organize the annual creative china festival across the u.s., with participating artists and industry intellectuals from the fields of film, literature, design, visual, visual and performing arts, to showcase the identities and creative forces of modern-day china.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 12
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 59
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13.7%; rating input score 14
- Program expense ratio: 12.3%; rating input score 12
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 50%; rating input score 50; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.5%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 13.14; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -18.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -21.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 13.7% of revenue deployed · 12.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 2 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 14/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.