Epochtimes Philadelphia

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
271201510
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Kng of Prussa, PA, USA
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$56,366
Expenses
$74,768
Assets
$81,449
Liabilities
$19,890

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lijie Sun (Director President)

People named in this filing

  • Lijie Sun (Director President)
  • Lan Yao (Treasurer)
  • Yuanfeng Liang (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

To provide and distribute the Epoch Times newspaper in Chinese weekly in Greater Philadelphia. Our aim is to report news truthfully free from Chinese Communist Party censorship and foreign influences. We focus on events in China human rights and healthy living.

What it reported doing in 2025

We supplied one to two pages of local news in the Chinese newspaper Da Ji Yuan DJY. In 2025 we circulated 2500 complimentary weekly copies of DJY in Greater Philadelphia. Our contents purpose was to inform the Chinese community about global events assist in their integration into U.S. society provide uncensored factual news and preserve cultural heritage. We concentrated on current events in China and the U.S. human rights and healthy living. Our independent newspaper stands for Truth and Traditions offering precise reporting to many families in Greater Philadelphia.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • 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: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -32.6%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 32.1%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -15.6% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -31.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -26.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $75K 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: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.