Saratoga Vision Chinese School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274377165
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Saratoga, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4158051512
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,941
- Expenses
- $86,738
- Assets
- $90,014
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
People named in this filing
- Jing-Ling Tseng (Principal)
- May-Jane Chuang (Vice Principal)
- JenPei Chao (Vice Principal)
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
Saratoga Vision Chinese School provides Chinese language learning opportunities for students of all ethnics and races from kindergarten through high school grade levels.
What it reported doing in 2024
Saratoga Vision Chinese School served student population of 82 during the school year of 2023-2024. The school provided 30 weekly Chinese lessons with 2-hour in-person courses in this school year. Saratoga Vision Chinese School opens to students of all ethnics and races from kindergarten through high school grade levels.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 16
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 16.8%; rating input score 17
- Program expense ratio: 14.7%; rating input score 15
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.2%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 49.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.2% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 16.8% of revenue deployed · 14.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 22 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 17/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.