Rose Group for Cross-cultural Understand
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421608437
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Overland Park, KS, USA
- Phone
- 2026400296
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Promotion of International Understanding
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,059
- Expenses
- $26,526
- Assets
- $212,898
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JULIUS LAI (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JULIUS LAI (PRESIDENT)
- JESSICA HORNER (SECRETARY & TREASURER)
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
Our primary purpose is to promote better understanding between the peoples of the u.s. And china via film and cultural exchanges as well as cultural presentation. Our annual chinafest in richmond, partnering with Virginia museum of fine arts and university of richmond, offers exhibitions, lectures, film screenings, family day and other china-related programs. We also help other cultural and educational entities in the us to stage exchanges with china, and vice versa. In the past, we published booklets, "learning and thinking about china", and made the documentary film, "the secret of healing, and the science of traditional chinese medicine" which has been broadcast on pbs in central Virginia.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our main event chinafest consistently draws audiences 10,000-13,000 during the four-day event, from richmond and beyond. We developed a virtual presence at both vmfa and u of richmond, and will keep it even though we are back to in-person. All of our events are free to the general public, and have been well established.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 71.8%; rating input score 72
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -103.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.03; rating input score 90; 90th 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 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -15.1% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 71.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.