CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON INC

2025 · Form 990EZ · revenue $143K · expenses $86K · assets $319K

EIN

46-2998909

Address

PO BOX 453, LEXINGTON, MA 02420-0010

Website

http://caal-ma.org

NTEE code

P99

Exempt type

501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (corporation)

Ruling date

June 2019 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

Exempt: reinstated May 15, 2018 after an automatic revocation on May 15, 2018 IRS data ↗

Tax-deductible donations

Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (public charity) Pub 78 ↗

Foundation status

Public charity, 509(a)(2)

Principal officer

Hua Wang (its 2019 Form 990-N)

Form 990-N e-postcards

1 filed, 2019 (organizations with gross receipts normally $50,000 or less file this instead of a full Form 990) IRS data ↗

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Mission

To serve Chinese-American interests in important town-wide activities especially, but not limited to, cultural and public school education, local issues, and diversity. To provide members with opportunities for involvement in the Lexington community through volunteerism, networking, and social events.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

None of the 27 people listed on these returns reported compensation from the organization. They are listed below.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

27 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

People by year

Highest-paid independent contractors

No independent contractors reported.

Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

Connected to

Organizations that list some of the same people on their returns (officers, directors, key employees on this organization’s latest return), and related organizations it lists on Schedule R.

• CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC Lexington, MA · 4 people in common (Elizabeth Xu, Hua Wang, Melanie Lin)
• LEXINGTON COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER INC Lexington, MA · 3 people in common (Hua Wang, Jimin Ren, Peter Lee)
• SYMMES LIFE CARE INC Lexington, MA · 1 person in common (Peter Lee)
• LEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lexington, MA · 1 person in common (Hua Wang)

Funders of this organization

9 grantors reported grants to this organization, $107,978 in all, tax years 2019 to 2025. Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.