Czech Cultural & Community Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 760496649
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7135282060
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $532,789
- Expenses
- $519,747
- Assets
- $3,270,297
- Liabilities
- $172,733
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- KERRY MAZOCH (CHAIRMAN)
- JOHN DICKERSON (TREASURER)
- SUSAN MYERS (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of the czech cultural center is to unify the czech/slovak american community arund issues of importance and provide a central focus for all things czech related. It serves as a clearinghouse.
What it reported doing in 2025
The museum held several cultural events open to the general public. These included monthly movie nights, family activities such as arts and crafts, storytelling, book readings, lectures, concerts and exhibits highlighting czech culture. A calendar of events can be found on the web site.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.3%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 80.2%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 75%; rating input score 75; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.4%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.29; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.3% of revenue deployed · 80.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $417K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 18 current checks pass · 4 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX CompDisqualPersons column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX PayrollTaxes column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.