Humanitarian China

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
300413217
IRS 990 coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Hayward, CA, USA
Phone
5103712098
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Promotion of International Understanding

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,473,455
Expenses
$376,903
Assets
$3,467,906
Liabilities
$50,000

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • FENGSUO ZHOU (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • YAXUE CAO (DIRECTOR)
  • KEN CHAN (SECRETARY)
  • ZHENG FANG (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide humanitarian support in china. Help to develop a civil society in china. Promote rule-of-law, human rights, and freedom of expressions. Focus on grass-roots and people who are neglected by the outside world.

What it reported doing in 2025

Humanitarian china supports the activists of 1989 pro-democracy movement and victims of the tiananmen massacre. Humanitarian china is the main and continuing supporter of tiananmen mothers, the families of these who died during tiananmen massacre. Humanitarian china works continuously to preserve the truth of tiananmen massacre against forced amnesia by ccp. Comemerating 35th anniversary of tiananmen massacre, humanitarian china held exhibitions in many prominent locations, including brown university, uk parliment, cambridge university, st john church, liberty plaza in taipei. Most noteworthy was the tiananmen exhibition in berlin in front of the berlin city parliment, which was the centerpiece of the celebration of the 35th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 97% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 40
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 91
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 12%; rating input score 12
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 89.1%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.2; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 62.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 66.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 12% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $370K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.