Key Bridge Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872659829
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Irvine, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7143454241
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $17,971
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Fang-I Chen (Director, Chair and Treasurer)
- Jim Lin (Director At-Large)
- Cheryl Velarde (Director At-Large)
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
The Foundation establish scholarship programs and other programs to support and engage students, reseachers and scholars in science, technology, music and arts, including pursuing education in elementary, middle, high schools, universities and graduate institutions.
What it reported doing in 2025
Key Bridge WOW Research Scholarship program provides funding to awardees with outstanding academic standings in their PhD training in reputable US research institutions so they may develop their WOW research ideas. In 2024, there were two individuals selected to receive the award. Awardees will provide written progress reports and publication of awardees will acknowledge funding support from the Key Bridge Foundation. Key Bridge Foundation also started the scholarship program for aspiring music students. In 2024, there were one individual selected to receive the award. Awardees will provide written progress reports and acknowledge funding support from the Key Bridge Foundation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 45% for direct work, and 55% for grants.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- 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: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -43.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -26.2% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -75.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $18K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.