San Diego Global Educational Institute
Legal name: San Diego Global Educational Inst
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 912156002
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Bonita, CA, USA
- Phone
- (619) 934-3930
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $141,695
- Expenses
- $211,448
- Assets
- $202,499
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dr MIGUEL A CARDENAS (President)
People named in this filing
- Dr Miguel Cardenas Jr (Treasurer)
- Dr MIGUEL A CARDENAS (President)
- Beatriz Escobedo (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Education for a Global Society. The Cárdenas family believe that what inspires change and what makes a truly impactful project thrive is the passion that drives it. Choosing to specialize in global education means that you are completely devoted to it; that you will advocate and nurture it creatively as if it were your own. That is the focus that sets this organization apart. From left to right: Dr. Miguel Cardenas Jr, Dr. Jorge Cardenas, and Dr. Miguel Cardenas \(Elsa Cardenas not shown\) _From left to right:_ Dr. Miguel Cardenas (Elsa Cardenas not shown).
What it reported doing in 2025
We administrate the San Diego Confucius Institute program dedicated to promoting and disseminating Chinese culture through language teaching and cultural education. This initiative focuses on providing language education to students in schools in Southern California as well as organizing world art events and destination travel tours for cultural immersion experiences.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 75.1%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -49.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 75.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $159K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2017 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: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.