Ff Fraternity of San Francisco
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332939852
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Walnut Creek, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9259307284
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $22,887
- Expenses
- $26,589
- Assets
- $35,927
- Liabilities
- $699
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL KING (Secretary)
- Winston Ma (Chairman)
- Ewing Liu (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
Ff fraternity is a global brotherhood of academics, professionals and entrepreneurs, and has evolved into one of the most active and influential chinese fraternal organizations in the us. The strength of our non-profit organization comes from its highly qualified members and their determination to build on their mission of "fellowship and service." currently, there are active lodges in boston, hong kong, los angeles, montreal, New York, san francisco, shanghai, singapore, Washington d.c., and taipei. Ff fraternity of san francisco is lodge in san francisco.
What it reported doing in 2025
The objective and purpose of the fraternity is to cultivate fraternal comradeship; to uphold a high standard of conduct in private and public life; to encourage a high standard of achievement and to assist, by all honorable means, in the advancement of the ff brothers in their works.the motto of the fraternity is "fellowship and service," that is, to provide fellowship among fraternity brothers and to provide service to the fraternity and its brothers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 76% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.9%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.