Ff La

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
334554994
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
9259307284
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,674
Expenses
$26,826
Assets
$34,396
Liabilities
$326

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • MICHAEL KING (Secretary)
  • Will Chang (Chairman)
  • Corey Wong (VICE CHAIR)

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 la is the lodge in los angeles.

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
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 97
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 92.6%; rating input score 93

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -372.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 25; 25th 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 · 92.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 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 3/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.