The Center for Cosmopolitan Culture Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 333780024
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Boca Raton, FL, USA
- Phone
- 5616352733
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $87,401
- Expenses
- $3,171
- Assets
- $84,230
- 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
- Richard Shusterman (President)
- Yanping Gao (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Richard Shusterman (President)
- Yanping Gao (Vice President)
- Seth Stein (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
To promote intercultural understanding and enhance global harmony through conferences, seminars, lectures, workshops and publications.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Center for Cosmopolitan Culture is a nonprofit organization devoted to fostering intercultural understanding through research, dialogue, and creative expression. During 2025, the Center conducted initial program activities including the development and release of podcast content, the hosting of public discussions and talks, and the planning and preparation of collaborative publications and educational workshops. These activities were designed to make scholarly and cultural ideas more accessible to the public and to establish the Center's long-term programming framework.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 89
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 1.9%; rating input score 2
- Program expense ratio: 52.1%; rating input score 52
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: 96.4%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 26.56; rating input score 97; 97th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 1.9% of revenue deployed · 52.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 2/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.