2024-12-31T20:23:29-07:00 2024-06-30 Jam-Pore Ou CPA 23 Tarbell Spring Road Concord MA 01742 990 2023-07-01 562303016 ACTON CHINESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL ACTO 9178805559 P O Box 2239 Acton MA 017206239 Lin Zhang Treasurer 9178805559 2024-12-29 0 1 Jam-Pore Ou P00953760 9782019935 2024-12-29 X 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z Xiaoping Ao 167 Middle Road Boxborough MA 01719 216215 0 X http://www.acls-ma.org X 2003 MA Acton Chinese Language School (ACLS) is a non-profit organization aiming at providing an educational and cultural setting for youngsters and adults alike in Acton and its neighboring towns to learn Chinese language, traditions, and culture. It is believed that cultivating Chinese culture and heritage into the young Chinese American will help them better understand and appreciate their origins. 8 8 0 43 0 0 34730 2743 173029 194172 2905 19300 0 0 210664 216215 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 204975 210205 204975 210205 5689 6010 456412 474906 39530 52014 416882 422892 Acton Chinese Language School (ACLS) is a non-profit organization aiming at providing an educational and cultural setting for youngsters and adults alike in Acton and its neighboring towns to learn Chinese language, traditions, and culture. It is believed that cultivating Chinese culture and heritage into the young Chinese American will help them better understand and appreciate their origins. 0 0 121377 0 194173 Chinese Language Classes & Chinese As Second Language Courses: The Company serviced 289 students in 53 Chinese Language Classes. These classes served students from 5 years old to the 9th grade in the middle school. The Company also provides 21classes of Chinese Language classes for Chinese as the Second Language students. A total of 21 students attended these classes. Additionally, the Company provides Chinese AP review class to high school students during the fall and the spring semesters. 20 students attended these review courses. 42252 0 0 Acton Chinese Language School Culture Program: The Company offers 22 culture classes to the public in area of arts, fitness, academic, and music instrument, and chess. In FY2024, the Company offered 26 programs such as Adult badminton, AMC 8, classic adult folk dance, children dance, international chess, fencing for children, Chinese brush painting, Acrylic painting, creative pencil drawing and sketching, introducion to debate, pipa, ping pong, Chinese Calligraphy, creative writing workshop, math Olympiads, making game with Python, adult basketball, adult ping pong, and Pilates. These programs served 172 individuals in FY2024. Additionally, the Company offered five parents clubs including adults chorus club, badminton club, ballroom dance club, senior club, and volleyball club in FY2024. 0 0 0 163629 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 54 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 MA X Lin Zhang 9178805559 P O Box 2239 Acton MA 017206239 Ting Chen Principle 5 0 X 5042 0 0 Xiaoping Ao Chairperson 5 0 X 0 0 0 Lin Zhang Treasurer 2 0 X 0 0 0 Ally Lee Clerk 2 0 X 0 0 0 Guoying Zuo Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Hongyu Luo Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Qiang Yu Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Yongqiang Zhang Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 5042 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2743 0 2743 Language Programs 611600 194172 194172 0 0 0 0 0 0 194172 19300 19300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 216215 213472 0 0 X 3039 2293 746 0 530 0 530 0 104568 78895 25673 0 156 118 38 0 897 407 490 0 1031 0 1031 0 40935 30947 9988 0 212 212 0 0 2601 1962 639 0 Custodian, Utilities, Teachers Awards, Donation 12801 8295 4506 0 Teacher Club, Activity Fees, Supplies, Bereavement 29293 26885 2408 0 Scholarship, Gift, Textbook, School Journal 14142 13615 527 0 210205 163629 46576 0 6012 8992 446801 465357 228 2601 35747 35190 770 557 456412 474906 1306 631 0 26654 40707 0 0 0 0 0 11570 10676 39530 52014 X 416782 422792 100 100 416882 422892 456412 474906 6010 0 0 0 0 0 X 1 X 0 1 0 X 5053 0 40004 34730 2743 82530 196775 122556 114050 173029 194172 800582 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 201828 122556 154054 207759 196915 883112 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 883112 2642 348 272 2905 19300 25467 0 0 0 0 0 0 2642 348 272 2905 19300 25467 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 204470 122904 154326 210664 216215 908579 0.97197 0.99086 0.02803 0.00914 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30099 29542 557 0 5648 5648 0 557 0 Parents on Duty Deposits 10676 10676 X Schedule D, Part X, Line 2 In FY2024 and FY2023, the Company has no uncertain tax position under FIN 48 (ASC 740) Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The return preparer emails a copy of the final version of Form 990 to the treasurer of the board or a designated officer. The person forwards it to all voting members of the board of directors and asks them to review the return and provide feedbacks within certain business days. The return will be timely filed after all the feedbacks received from reviewers have been recorded. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Each director or key employee has to disclose annually information regarding his/her interest and those of his/her family members that can give rise to conflicts of interest during the annual board of directors meeting either verbally or in writing. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 The Company has a rebuttable presumption of reasonableness policy in place. The board of directors must obtain comprensation comparability data for the executive officers before the compensation meeting being held. The members who participate may not have any personal interest in the compensation arrangement. The comparability data may be based on industry surveys, documented compensation of persons holding similar positions in similar organizations, expert compensation studies, or other comparable data. The decision-making body must approve the compensation, without discussion or voting participation by the person whose compensation is being approved or any other member with a conflict of interest. However, that person may answer questions that will help the decision-making body in its later deliberations. The decision-making body must document the basis for its determination concurrently with the approval. The documentation contains 1. the terms of the approved transaction and the date approved; 2. the members of the decision-making body who were present during debate on the transaction that was approved and those who voted on it; 3. the comparability data that was relied on by the decision-making body and how the data was obtained; 4. any actions by a member of the decision-making body having a conflict of interest. The documentation must be prepared before the later of the next meeting of the decision-making body, or two months after the final actions of the body. In addition, the decision-making body must approve the documentation within a reasonable time after preparation. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The Company makes its governing documents such as articles of incorporation, bylaws, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the general public upon request. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Language Teaching Consultants: $56,580, Chinese Culture Consultants: $22,315, Administrative Consultants: $25,673. Total Other Consultants: $104,568 The Company needed additional time to close its accounting records for FY2024. A copy of Form 8868, Application for Extension of Time to File an Exempt Organization Return or Excise Taxes Related to Employee Benefit Plans had been timely submitted on-line to IRS in September 2024.