Maryland · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF CHINESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE
WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF CHINESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $750 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $172k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $750
- Net assets
- $798k
What Washington School of Chinese Language & Culture does
Mission
Wsclc provides chinese language & culture classes on sundays during school year. Classes last for 2.5 hours from 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm, including both language and culture focus.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The classes are divided into 3 periods with 2 periods for lanaguage and 1 period for culture. About three hundred students age 3 to 18 attend 22 language classes from k-1 to g-12 for 32 weeks during the school year. In the third period the students are exposed to chinese culture such as go chess (wekqi), mah-jong, calligraphy, hand puppy show, fold dance, yo-yo, karate, acupressure, paper folding, art and crafts, play dough, pottery, music, movie, history and folklore. The students are also encouraged to participate in intra-school and inter-school activities, including chinese night-market party, track and field meets (field day), dragon boat race, speech contest, yo-yo championship, chinese typing contest, calligraphy contest, folk dance, chinese martial arts, tennis meets, and swim meets. The students of wsclc are qualified to obtain chinese language credits from the montgomery county public school system. Most of the senior level students score high in sat-chinese tests. Since 2014, the school also has an adult class to teach adult students commonly used and practical mandarin chese. During the covid pandemic period, the school followed government instructions adopting remote…
$164,371 spent$171,994 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $164,371.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $497k to $776k (+56%).
How it's funded, over time
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0% of WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF CHINESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Jennifer Lee
Chairperson of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF CHINESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE’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.
Where its funders are
WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF CHINESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF CHINESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF CHINESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE: 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 WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF CHINESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE?
- WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF CHINESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $750 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF CHINESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $750 in grants to WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF CHINESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF CHINESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE?
- VERIZON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF CHINESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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