Hmong American Community of Oregon Llc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
611569938
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
5039362102
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Reported finances

Revenue
$89,233
Expenses
$83,084
Assets
$71,536
Liabilities
$1,635

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Coua Xiong (President)
  • Annie Cha (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Coua Xiong (President)
  • Annie Cha (Vice President)
  • Donna Cha (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

Hmong American Community of Oregon (HACO) aims to empower and support Hmong youths, adults, and families to become successful through education, advocacy, and civic engagement. HACO works to preserve, and promote the Hmong cultural heritage, including language, dance, music, and other valued practices through classes, events, and other programs. And HACO strives to build a sense of solidarity and friendship among Hmong individuals, families, community, and interest groups through various activities of common interest.

What it reported doing in 2025

Hmong New Year Celebration is open to the public and brings in over 3000 people from the community to participate in the event. There are cultural performances, children's activities, merchandise, food, and more. Public services such as flu vaccines and transportation access information is provided for all participants. We also offer an evening concert to support Hmong artists.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.7%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.9%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 44; 44th 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: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.7% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $67K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.