Institute for Chinas Democratic Transition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814422419
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Powell, OH, USA
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $135,373
- Expenses
- $109,277
- Assets
- $37,154
- Liabilities
- $4,632
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tiancheng Wang (President)
People named in this filing
- Tiancheng Wang (President)
- Ping Hu (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See Part III statement
What it reported doing in 2025
Magzine Issuing & Podcast Publishing
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.7%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.3%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.8%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 72.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $109K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.