Elite Music Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465126834
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Covina, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6263744488
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,624
- Expenses
- $102,579
- Assets
- $198,717
- Liabilities
- $11,100
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cliff T Yang (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- Cliff T Yang (President & CEO)
- Ling-Hsien Huang (Secretary)
- Kristina Kao (CFO)
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 Elite Chorus's mission is to use music education, cultural exchange, and music appreciation as a bridge to uphold Taiwanese American culture.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Elite Chorus's mission is to use music education, cultural exchange, and music appreciation as a bridge to uphold Taiwanese American culture.The Chorus consists of more than 40 singers who meet every Sunday from 6pm to 9pm and perform around US and Asia.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.9%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.1%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.94; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $103K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.