North American Chinese Educational Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770479948
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4155091799
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Girls Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $191,351
- Expenses
- $202,233
- Assets
- $150,564
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mike Ming Mao (President)
People named in this filing
- Mike Ming Mao (President)
- Amy Huang (Secretary)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of North American Chinese Educational Foundation is to pool its resources and expertise to improve Chinese community educational excellence.
What it reported doing in 2024
Program to support youth science education awareness
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.9%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 150% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -22.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.9% of revenue deployed · 86% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $174K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.