Elin Pelin Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
455623659
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Spring, TX, USA
Phone
8329285328
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Reported finances

Revenue
$117,209
Expenses
$88,411
Assets
$106,990

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GERGANA ARACTCHIEV (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • GERGANA ARACTCHIEV (PRESIDENT)
  • NEVENA NIKOLOVA (TREASURER)
  • MINTCHO ARACTCHIEV (SECRETARY)

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

Elin pelin foundation is dedicated to providing the highest quality bulgarian language instruction and cross-cultural experience for both children and adults. The bulgarian school welcomes students of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds from the wide houston areas. Elin pelin foundation rents space for the bulgarian school and a small library, which provides free, easy-to-access articles, books and journals written in bulgarian and english languages to those interested to learn about the balkans' culture, history and heritage. Elin pelin foundation has a mission to help preserve the bulgarian language, culture and customs, as well as to embrace bulgarian-american artists and popularize bulgarian-american art in all its forms.

What it reported doing in 2025

Elin pelin foundation operate bulgarian language, lessons are offered weekly in 4 hour sessions. In years 2019-2019 elin pelin foundation provided instructions to 33 children divided in five age and skill levels.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.4%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 24.6%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.21; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $88K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • 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.