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FRIENDS OF TSINGHUA SEM INC Room A411 Jianhua Building

FRIENDS OF TSINGHUA SEM INC Room A411 Jianhua Building receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being THE STARR FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.5M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$100k
Net assets
$60M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What FRIENDS OF TSINGHUA SEM INC Room A411 Jianhua Building does

Mission

To support research and study in school of economics and management (sem) of tsinghua university, china.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The $1085000 was designated service fee for 2025 gmba-mit program in tsinghua sem.

    $1,085,000 spentof which $1,085,000 as grants
    72% of program spending

  2. The $80000 was designated donation to coca cola 21st century marketing program.

    $80,000 spentof which $80,000 as grants
    5% of program spending

  3. THE $ 70000 WAS TO Support Coca Cola Chair Professorship in Tsinghua SEM

    $70,000 spentof which $70,000 as grants
    5% of program spending

  4. The $70000 was to designated donation to c.v. Starr founding dean chair professorship in tsinghua sem

    $70,000 spentof which $70,000 as grants
    5% of program spending

  5. The $70000 was to designated donation to support c.v starr international founding dean chair professorship in tsinghua sem

    $70,000 spentof which $70,000 as grants
    5% of program spending

  6. THE $45000 WAS DESIGNATED DONATION TO Support Greenberg Scholarship at Tsinghua SEM

    $45,000 spentof which $45,000 as grants
    3% of program spending

  7. The $42000 was to designated donation to support henry r. Kravis chair professorship at tsinghua sem

    $42,000 spentof which $42,000 as grants
    3% of program spending

  8. THE $37500 WAS TO Support AXA Chair Professorship at Tsinghua SEM

    $37,500 spentof which $37,500 as grants
    2% of program spending

  9. The $7500 was to provide conference expense support for guest speakers at corporate governance conference.

    $7,500 spentof which $7,500 as grants
    0% of program spending

  10. The $3382 was to provide travel expense support for professor to speakers at corporate governance conference.

    $3,382 spentof which $3,382 as grants
    0% of program spending

The 10 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,510,382.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($13M) Expenses 100 ($912k) Net assets 100 ($47M)2018 Revenue 14 ($1.8M) Expenses 75 ($681k) Net assets 103 ($49M)2019 Revenue 2 ($309k) Expenses 112 ($1.0M) Net assets 108 ($51M)2020 Revenue 4 ($465k) Expenses 68 ($624k) Net assets 113 ($53M)2021 Revenue 5 ($655k) Expenses 171 ($1.6M) Net assets 128 ($60M)2022 Revenue 2 ($308k) Expenses 127 ($1.2M) Net assets 125 ($59M)2023 Revenue 5 ($612k) Expenses 94 ($858k) Net assets 125 ($59M)2024 Revenue 15 ($1.8M) Expenses 283 ($2.6M) Net assets 124 ($58M)2025 Revenue 19 ($2.5M) Expenses 176 ($1.6M) Net assets 127 ($60M)
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Revenue (19)Expenses (176)Net assets (127)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 2020 to 2021, from $53M to $60M (+13%).

$47M
$49M
$51M
$53M
$60M
$59M
$59M
$58M
$60M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

22% of FRIENDS OF TSINGHUA SEM INC Room A411 Jianhua Building’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$12M
’17
$1.1M
’18
−$710k
’19
−$158k
’20
−$908k
’21
−$851k
’22
−$245k
’23
−$744k
’24
$849k
’25
351
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed667777777
Joined·+1+2+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·11000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF TSINGHUA SEM INC Room A411 Jianhua Building’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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF TSINGHUA SEM INC Room A411 Jianhua Building runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin35% · top quartile
Months of reserve350.9mo · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)−19% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like FRIENDS OF TSINGHUA SEM INC Room A411 Jianhua Building

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

Nationally

Scholars of Finance77%Science and Technology Futures Inc75%Student Organizing Inc75%Studentsfirst New York Inc75%Study Group Solutions Inc75%American Friends of Singapore Management University Inc75%School for Field Studies Inc74%The Chinese University of Hong Kong Foundation Inc C/O Gma Foundations74%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
71%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

12%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF TSINGHUA SEM INC Room A411 Jianhua Building?
FRIENDS OF TSINGHUA SEM INC Room A411 Jianhua Building receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being THE STARR FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF TSINGHUA SEM INC Room A411 Jianhua Building have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF TSINGHUA SEM INC Room A411 Jianhua Building.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF TSINGHUA SEM INC Room A411 Jianhua Building?
THE STARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF TSINGHUA SEM INC Room A411 Jianhua Building find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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