S E a Rescue Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
431259211
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Tallahassee, FL, USA
Phone
7023727385
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
International Relief

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$252,000
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Wang Shu Ying (Director)
  • Reyna J Quinga (Director)
  • Theodore Schweitzer (Founder)

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

SEA Rescue Foundation provides emergency food supplies, medical care and shelter to refugees, displaced persons and other needy and oppressed people in Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia and elsewhere as needed.

What it reported doing in 2025

During 2025 S.E.A. Rescue Foundation continued as before with its Northeast Asia based women's and children's emergency relief project for the neediest refugees and displaced persons from China and Korea. During 2025 we again made a number of lengthy stays in the northeastern border area of China and Korea to feed Chinese and Korean orphans and schoolchildren and needy orphans in northern and northwestern China and Korea. Throughout 2025 we were again able to provide an average of 5000 HEBs (high-energy biscuits) per day to a rotating list of orphanages and schools in two locations in China and Korea. We were providing approximately 150,000 HEBs per month during 2022. At an average cost of just US $ .10 per each 400 calorie, vitamin enriched biscuit, we provided over one million nutritious children's meals during 2022. Our proposal to produce High Energy Biscuits (HEB) for orphans in mini factories in China and Korea was necessarily put on hold because of the Covid-19 pandemic. This project hopefully will eventually employ disabled workers to produce the High Energy Biscuits (HEB) for orphans in the immediate vicinity of each HEB mini factory

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 72
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

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

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 2nd 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -16.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $252K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $126K reported
  • Consistency: 40 of 42 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grants require schedule f did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.