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American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF)

American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF) (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,393 to it, the largest being JIAJUN LIN & JIANPING CHEN FOUNDATION ($123,186). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.5M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$273k
Net assets
$4.1M
4/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 66%
01What it does

What American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF) does

Mission

To receive and administer funds for education

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Education grants, scholarship and letctureship

    $200,379 spent$3,433,041 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $200,379.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($212k) Expenses 100 ($52k) Net assets 100 ($467k)2019 Revenue 265 ($561k) Expenses 77 ($40k) Net assets 217 ($1.0M)2020 Revenue 112 ($238k) Expenses 944 ($491k) Net assets 169 ($790k)2021 Revenue 62 ($132k) Expenses 376 ($196k) Net assets 159 ($741k)2022 Revenue 49 ($104k) Expenses 93 ($48k) Net assets 156 ($728k)2023 Revenue 60 ($127k) Expenses 4 ($2k) Net assets 191 ($890k)2024 Revenue 60 ($127k) Expenses 540 ($281k) Net assets 165 ($771k)2025 Revenue 1631 ($3.5M) Expenses 388 ($202k) Net assets 885 ($4.1M)
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Revenue (1631)Expenses (388)Net assets (885)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $771k to $4.1M (+436%).

$467k
$1.0M
$790k
$741k
$728k
$890k
$771k
$4.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF)’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,679 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$160k
’18
$521k
’19
−$252k
’20
−$64k
’21
$55k
’22
$126k
’23
−$154k
’24
$3.3M
’25
36
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Catherine Yang

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1616161616151515
Joined·+2+2+1+0+0+4+0
No longer listed·2210140
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10 → $72k.

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF).

45%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 44% · 2022 73% · 2023 70% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

60% of American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

86% of American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF)'s grant income comes from California funders.

IL
NJ
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF) holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin94% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve36.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)49% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF)

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 0%Fundraising 1%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

14%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF): IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF)?
American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF) (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,393 to it, the largest being JIAJUN LIN & JIANPING CHEN FOUNDATION ($123,186). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF) have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $273,393 in grants to American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF), 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF)?
JIAJUN LIN & JIANPING CHEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $123,186 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF) find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing