S E a Rescue Foundation
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
SEA Rescue Foundation provides emergency food supplies, medical care and shelter to refugees, displaced persons and other needy and oppressed people in Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia and elsewhere as needed.
- Income
- $0
- Spending
- $252,000
- Spent on programs
- 100%
- Reserves
- 0 months of spending
- Employees
- 0
- Volunteers
- 14
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Weak: 29 out of 100. Higher than 6% of charities in its peer group (international, under $250k).
Reserves
4 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 0.0 months of spending.
Income trend
0 of 15Income fell 100% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 15100% of spending went to programs.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Strong: 91 out of 100. Higher than 84% of charities in its peer group (international, under $250k).
Independent board
18 of 253 of 3 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
15 of 15Has a written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
8 of 8Has a written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
7 of 7Has a written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
10 of 10Gave the board a copy of this return before filing it.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $63,000 spent. During 2025 our Emergency Assistance Project in Cambodia provided approximately 18,000 kilograms of Neang Minh 100% broken grain Cambodian rice per month to our assisted group of refugees and displaced persons. On average throughout the year, we were able to provide nearly 600 kilograms of rice per day to feed approximately 800 women and 400 children on a daily basis. On an annual basis throughout 2025 we provided nearly 438,000 meals to feed our needy assisted population in Cambodia.
- $126,000 spent. During 2025 S.E.A. Rescue Foundation continued as before with its Northeast Asia based women's and children's emergency relief project for the neediest refugees and displaced persons from China and Korea. During 2025 we again made a number of lengthy stays in the northeastern border area of China and Korea to feed Chinese and Korean orphans and schoolchildren and needy orphans in northern and northwestern China and Korea. Throughout 2025 we were again able to provide an average of 5000 HEBs (high-energy biscuits) per day to a rotating list of orphanages and schools in two locations in China and Korea. We were providing approximately 150,000 HEBs per month during 2022. At an average cost of just US $ .10 per each 400 calorie, vitamin enriched biscuit, we provided over one million nutritious children's meals during 2022. Our proposal to produce High Energy Biscuits (HEB) for orphans in mini factories in China and Korea was necessarily put on hold because of the Covid-19 pandemic. This project hopefully will eventually employ disabled workers to produce the High Energy Biscuits (HEB) for orphans in the immediate vicinity of each HEB mini factory
- $63,000 spent. We provided food, housing and medical care to thousands of refugees and displaced persons in Cambodia as a result f the war with Thailand and Cambodia.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since September 1982.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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