Westar Corp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843637046
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Weston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 5083956767
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,553
- Expenses
- $21,626
- Assets
- $97,308
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Hung Ha Wu (President)
- Yan Wang (Vice President)
- Yong Huang (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Hung Ha Wu (President)
- Xiaolin Chen (Treasurer)
- Guo Tian (Clerk)
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
Our mission is building bonds among members from Chinese community in Weston, MA through various events. Our specific purposes and objectives are as follows: 1. Celebrate Chinese Traditions 2. Sponsor and/or organize events promoting cultural exchange and inheritance 3. Sponsor and/or organize events enriching the lives of Weston residents and those in the surrounding communities. 4. Fundraising and aid in the relief of important issues such as natural disasters, epidemics, and others as they effect the Chinese community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Boston international asian music festival in Weston
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 83
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: -39%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.5; rating input score 82; 82nd 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: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -34.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $18K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.