Multicultural Education Research Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
680364101
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Sacramento, CA, USA
Phone
5103033731
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Cultural Exchange

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,099
Expenses
$3,462
Assets
$4,539
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Diana Sun Kuo PhD (Chief Executive)

People named in this filing

  • Diana Sun Kuo PhD (Chief Executive)
  • Kin Wah Ng (Treasurer)
  • Shu Chuan Wu (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide multicultural and Chinese language education through online virtual teaching to the school aged students and interested adult learners in the community.

What it reported doing in 2025

Multicultural Events and Activities: To introduce the features and uniqueness of different cultures to the community to foster an appreciation of the diversity of American society. Various activities and events sponsored by MERC including Chinese New Year Celebration, Kwanzza, Cinco de Mayo, and cultural exhibitions.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 56
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • 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: 15.5%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 43.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $50K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.