Overseas Chinese Physics

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
313814010
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
2126506884
Rating
62
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$82,651
Expenses
$5,846
Assets
$539,958
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Prof W Vincent Liu (President)
  • Prof Xuan Gao (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Prof W Vincent Liu (President)
  • Prof Xuan Gao (Vice President)
  • Prof Chen-Yu Liu (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To promote the recognition of the achievement of Chinese American and ethnic Chinese research physicists and astronomers with the Outstanding Young Research Award and the Achievement in Asia Award for exceptional contributions in theoretical and experimental physics, with the Outstanding Dissertation Award and the best poster award.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization awarded the following OCPA Awards for year 2024. The 2024 award selection process was delayed by one year and conducted in 2025 due to a backlog which resulted from the world-wide COVID pandemic. The 2025 award selection was concluded and announced in early 2026 and those 2025 awards will be reported in the 2026 tax filing. The 2024 Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA-Ardentec Prize) was awarded to Dr. Ting Li of the University of Toronto. The 2024 Achievement in Asia Award (AAA-Poe Prize) was awarded to Dr. Xiong-Jun Liu (Peking University) and Dr. Hong Yao (Tsinghua University). The 2024 Outstanding Dissertation Award (ODA) was awarded to Dr. Yue Hu (University of Wisconsin-Madison). No poster award was awarded in year 2024.

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 96% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 38
  • Transparency & Controls: 89
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 89
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 8.1%; rating input score 8
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 9th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 92.9%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 92.36; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 53.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 8.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $6K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 15 of 16 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • 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: Mission deployment rate scored 8/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grants require schedule f did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.