Mandarin Institute

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
611624383
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone
4152971227
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Humanities Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$75
Assets
$16,762
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • HYALAN KING (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • JEFF BISSELL (DIRECTOR)
  • STEVE BOWLING (TREASURER)
  • ANTHONY CHANG (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To grow & strengthen pre k-12 chinese language & culture education in american schools by 1)becoming a national resource,2)empowering education through high quality professional development,3)supporting the development & maintenance of state & national standards.

What it reported doing in 2024

National chinese education conferences. Mandarin institute created the first annual conference for chinese language teachers and has brought leaders in mandarin education together to share best practices and help schools to establish effective mandarin programs. The mandarincenter.org is the largest u.s. Online community of k-12 chinese language educators sharing resources. Membership continues to grow, reaching over 5500 members. Access to new resources, teacher materials, innovations in educational methodologies, best practices and forums. Teacher preparation programs empower educators with useful training tools. Teachers learned the critical skills they need to be effective teaching mandarin in the classroom.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 78
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 223.49; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -10.1% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -11.1% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -14.9% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.