Kentuckiana Chinese School
Legal name: Kentuckiana Chinese School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364785724
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Louisville, KY, USA
- Phone
- 5027596940
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,096
- Expenses
- $81,863
- Assets
- $55,819
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JINYU HU (PRESIDENT)
- FEI YUAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JINYU HU (PRESIDENT)
- FEI YUAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- PHOEBE DING (TREASURER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Kentuckiana Chinese School (KCS) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to Chinese language education, cultural learning, community service, and youth leadership. Our vision and mission is to continually give back to the community by serving Kentuckiana families with cultural, educational, and social activities.
What it reported doing in 2024
We teach the chiinese language and promote chinses culture, learning and diversity in Kentucky and southern Indiana for students of all ethnic bakgrounds. We have enrolled more than 5,000 students since inception and strive to enrich asian culture in the area of greater louisville.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.9%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 86.3%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.6%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.9%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 92.9% of revenue deployed · 86.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $71K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.