Offers creative workshops and tools for Southeast Asian diaspora communities to share knowledge.
For fiscal year 2021 it reported $702K in revenue, $545K in expenses, and $249K in net assets.Pt I
Where the money goes · FY2021
Total revenue
$702K
Pt VIII · Ln 12
Total expenses
$545K
Pt IX · Ln 25
Net assets
$249K
Pt X · Ln 32
Revenue less expenses (Pt I · Ln 19): $157K
Where spending went · Part IX cols B–D
74%
12%
14%
Program services $0.74 Management & general $0.12 Fundraising $0.14
Program efficiency
74%
of spending reaches programs
Operating runway
5.7mo
months of highly liquid reserves at operating expense rate
Surplus margin
+22%
revenue over expenses, this year
Summary of the Filing
Part I · fiscal year 2021 · Form 990
Revenue
$702K
FY2021
$702K$351K$0
FY2021FY2024
Expenses
$545K
FY2021
$553K$276K$0
FY2021FY2024
Total assets
$260K
FY2021
$374K$187K$0
FY2021FY2024
Total liabilities
$10K
FY2021
$10K$5K$0
FY2021FY2024
Total revenue
$702K
Pt VIII · Ln 12
Total expenses
$545K
Pt IX · Ln 25
Net assets
$249K
Pt X · Ln 32
Revenue less expensesPt I · Ln 19$157K
Total assetsPt X · Ln 16$260K
Program-expense ratioPt IX · col B74%
Voting members of governing bodyPt I · Ln 38
Independent voting membersPt I · Ln 48
Mission & Programs · Part III
Where the work happens
3 program services account for $219K of program spending, described in the organization's own filed words · FY2020.
01
Sea change lab is a cohort-based program aimed at growing social empowerment and leadership development through creative storytelling in young people with heritage roots in southeast asia (burmese, cambodian, hmong, karenni, lao, vietnamese, etc); specifically youth and young adults ages 18-25.
$105Kprogram expense
02
Planting Seads
Narrative storytelling program gathers and amplifies stories and space for southeast asian narratives to thrive, mobilize and heal through conversations, digital and print publications, and storytelling tools and has multiple projects under its program.
$59Kprogram expense
03
Sea Roots
Southeast asian heritages & languages program teaches language and cultural literacy workshops in hmong, khmer, lao and vietnamese. Includes workshops in southeast asian languages: 8-WEEKS language literacy intensives for those who want to learn an introduction and foundations in reading, writing, speaking.
Kaysone Syonesa Schneider’s $76K as Co-Director
is at the 61st percentile of top reported officer pay among 1033 $100K–1M public & societal benefit nonprofits.
Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 6 named individuals · Part VII
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
Individual Chanida Potter · Reported title Founding Director · Highest reported compensation $59K · Total expenses $545K
11%
Personnel share
Salaries, benefits & payroll (Pt IX 5-10) $224K · Total expenses $545K
41%
Fundraising vendors
Fundraiser cost ratio
Paid to fundraisers $36K · Gross raised $559K
6%
Peer comparison
Same NTEE category, revenue band, and state where available. Descriptive — not a grade.
Metric
This org
Peer median
Percentile
Program ratio
74%
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Overhead ratio
12%
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Fundraising cost ratio
13%
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Accounting fee ratio
0%
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Fundraising fee ratio
7%
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Straight from the Form 990 — descriptive, not an evaluation. A ratio is hidden when its base is zero or too small to be meaningful; the dollars are always shown.
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Sources
Every figure above is drawn from these filings
Form 990 e-file (XML) · FY2021IRS
Classification, formation year, addressIRS Business Master File
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