Mental Health Association For Chinese Communities
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824322450
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Castro Valley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8008818502
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Nonmonetary Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,259,003
- Expenses
- $1,700,808
- Assets
- $538,480
- Liabilities
- $35,418
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Elaine Peng (Executive Director and founder)
- Henry Huang (President)
- Lilian Lee (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Carole Wang (Sr Deputy Director and Co-founder): $123,224 total reported compensation
- Elaine Peng (Executive Director and founder): $119,450 total reported compensation
- Steven Chen (Deputy Director): $117,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mental Health Association for Chinese Communities is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to raise awareness of mental health within the Chinese community through advocacy, education, research, support, and services to represent the wide spectrum of Chinese families.
What it reported doing in 2025
1 Helping Youth and Family meeting with mental challenges 2. Family to Family Education Programs 3. Helping caregivers and family members taking care mental illness patients 4. Outreach program - help prevent suicide patients 5. Chinese warm-line services 6. Advocating for mental health through mass media and events 7. Helping Youth and Family meeting with mental challenges 8. Family to Family Education Programs 9. Helping caregivers and family members taking care mental illness patients 10. Outreach program - help prevent suicide patients 11. Chinese warm-line services 12. Advocating for mental health through mass media and events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 95% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 29
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 23
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 24.7%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 18.3%; rating input score 18
- Fundraising efficiency: $86.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -35.1%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 24.7% of revenue deployed · 18.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $310K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $123K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.