Cupertino-hsinchu Sister City Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020740910
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Cupertino, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4088582368
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Academic Exchange
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $72,720
- Expenses
- $55,515
- Assets
- $57,694
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chia Ching Lin (President)
People named in this filing
- Chia Ching Lin (President)
- Angela Chen (Treasurer)
- Jen Lin (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
The CHSCA has supported an annual Student Exchange Program since 2004 to foster school, family and living experiences of students from both Cupertino CA and Hsinchu Taiwan. Each year a group of students from the Cupertino Union School District (CUSD) and Fremont Union High School District (FUHSD) are selected and prepared for their trip to Hsinchu in April to visit their host family's students for a week. In October, a group of Hsinchu students in turn will visit another group of host families in California. Through these exchange programs, students from both sides experience valuable and lifelong friendships and knowledge through the activities and encounters throughout the entire visit preparations and process. Hsinchu is known as the Silicon Valley of Taiwan with over 300 tech companies located in the Hsinchu Science and Technology Park, and part of this exchange is to provide students an opportunity to see how connected our two cities are and the world as a whole.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Cupertino-Hsinchu Sister City Association, CHSCA, has supported an annual Student Exchange Program for over 20 years to foster school, family and living experiences of students from both Cupertino CA and Hsinchu Taiwan. In April 2025 a group of 25 students from the Cupertino Union School District (CUSD) and Fremont Union High School District (FUHSD) were selected and prepared for their trip with chaperones to Hsinchu to visit their host family's students for a week. In October, a group of 25 Hsinchu students in turn visited another group of host families in California. Through these exchange programs, students from both sides experienced valuable and lifelong friendships and knowledge through the activities and encounters throughout the entire visit and host preparations and the group travel process.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.7%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 35% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.