Fu Yuan Baozi

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
992967852
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
El Monte, CA, USA
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Full-Service Restaurants

Reported finances

Revenue
$71,887
Expenses
$2,507
Assets
$199,026
Liabilities
$80,000

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

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • chris lee (President)

People named in this filing

  • chris lee (President)

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

Fu yuan Baozi was founded by Falun Gong practitioners from mainland China.To provide affordable culturally authentic Tianjing steamed buns and dumplings to the local community. To raise funds through catering activities to support media organizations in promoting traditional culture for the public.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025 the organization sold $103903 worth of steamed buns and dumplings at affordable prices primarily in outdoor supermarket plazas across El Monte and nearby communities. These sales aimed to increase access to traditional Chinese food while supporting local cultural diversity and food choice.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 83
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 44.5%; rating input score 45
  • 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: 96.5%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 79.39; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 27% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 36.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 120% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 44.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.