Taiwanese Cultural and Sports Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473469625
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3528704721
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,986
- Expenses
- $106,690
- Assets
- $43,423
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Hungta Lin (President)
People named in this filing
- Hungta Lin (President)
- Tania Brown (Secretary)
- Elena Lien (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
To educate the community and provide a safe and fun experience for children and famalies about Taiwan culture and heritage through songs dance food and fun activities of culture exchanges.
What it reported doing in 2025
TCSA successfully launched the 15th annual Kids N Fun Festival in August with over 100 participating booths to provide activities and food for many thousands of children and attendees to learn and enjoy via games and shows about Taiwan culture and heritage. TCSA also undertook the Taiwan Pulse event in May during the 2025 Taiwanese American Heritage Festival at the Fox Theater in Redwood city. This event introduced to over 1000 participants about Taiwanese heritage arts traditions and culture through performances exhibits and interactive demonstrations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.5%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 70.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 42.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.