Korean-american Educational Researchers Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 451449141
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Ashburn, VA, USA
- Phone
- 6128398590
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $33,605
- Expenses
- $29,427
- Assets
- $38,456
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHANSOON LEE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHANSOON LEE (PRESIDENT)
- SEOHEE PARK (FINANCE DIRE)
- JACKIE RELYEA (VICE-PRESIDE)
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
Our primary objectives are strengthening organizational infrastructures, enhancing financial stability, developing organization vision and strategies, and expanding professional development and social networking opportunities among kaera members.
What it reported doing in 2025
Kaera annual conference offers opportunities to engage in practical, open, and dynamic conversation about critical issues relevant to graduate students, researchers, and faculty members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 41% for direct work, and 59% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. 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: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.1%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 69.2%; rating input score 69
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.4%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 55; 55th 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: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.1% of revenue deployed · 69.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.