Dallas Guzheng Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883278997
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Mckinney, TX, USA
- Phone
- 4695982718
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $35,291
- Expenses
- $6,306
- Assets
- $38,640
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Xi Hui (President)
- Jixiang Zheng (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Xi Hui (President)
- Lim Cheung (Director)
- Jixiang Zheng (Executive 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Dallas Guzheng Association is dedicated to promoting the spread of Guzheng arts, providing access of Guzheng education to public, and uniting communities through artistic expression and music events. We leverage Guzheng as a gateway to uplifting life, shaping the future and artistic achievement through musical arts and education. Guzheng, also as Zheng or Chinese Zither, is a classic traditional Chinese musical instrument that has thousands of years' history. Our vision is to: * Provide quality Guzheng education for children and adults at all levels and ages * Offer practical training for aspiring musicians and educators * Make creative opportunities available for local musicians and educators * Create a local musical community that engages in events and networking * Organize and sponsor Guzheng concert and public lectures * Provide instruments to our sponsored students * Bring our community together with music and art
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided low-cost public educational lectures on the guzheng, a traditional Chinese plucked string instrument, to promote awareness of Chinese cultural heritage in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Lectures covered instrument history, playing techniques, and musical traditions. Programs served students, community members, and cultural organizations throughout North Texas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.6%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 82.1%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.13; rating input score 86; 86th 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: 69.5% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 64.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 89.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.