Aikido Kokikai Federation USA Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812964733
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- West Berlin, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 8563168228
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreational l Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $63,727
- Expenses
- $30,896
- Assets
- $84,236
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dan McDougall (Board President)
- Glenn Needs (Board Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Dan McDougall (Board President)
- Glenn Needs (Board Vice President)
- Andrew Wright (Board Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the Aikido Kokikai Federation USA membership organization is to foster the growth of Kokikai Aikido in the USA; to track and maintain a list of dojos, instructors & students participating in Kokikai Aikido in the USA; and to support the continuing ability for the Kokiai Aikido membership to have the opportunity to train with Sensei and other senior Aikido Kokikai instructors through national camps and regional seminars. Goals To create a support organization in the United States to focused on ensuring the continued growth and quality of Kokikai teaching and certifications. To manage and maintain Kokikai Dojo & Dan ranking lists, and to coordinate senior belt testing. To provide ongoing organizational support to USA member dojo's and the hosting of future camps and seminars. To facilitate the continued availability and affordability of US Camps and Seminars by providing support for the travel related expenses associated with hosting camp and seminar instruction
What it reported doing in 2025
Dojo Membership benefits: in 2025 we began investigating the feasibility of offering centralized martial arts insurance through the Aikido Kokikai Federation organization in order to benefit our dojo leaders and membership by offering this capability through the existing cost of membership. This could be a potential benefit to our dojo leaders through reduced costs in operating their dojos, while also supporting our membership through standardized training insurance coverage regardless of where they are training. The groundwork for this was begun during 2025 by creating a working group to identify if insurance providers existed to support our goals, and to analyze if the offered coverage was a good match to both the organization's and dojo leader's needs. To date the work is showing promise and is on track for being presented for consideration by the Aikido Kokikai Federation board of trustees in 2026.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 64% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.5%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 51.5%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.73; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $31K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.