Friends of Ukraine Refugees
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882259421
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Wenatchee, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5096621211
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Migration, Refugee Issues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,649
- Expenses
- $73,933
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RUSS SPEIDEL (PRESIDENT)
- SUZI PITTS (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RUSS SPEIDEL (PRESIDENT)
- SUZI PITTS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KEITH MADSEN (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 friends of ukraine refugees is to help refugees escaping the war in ukraine arrive and establish their lives in the central Washington region.
What it reported doing in 2025
Immigration Services - The Organization paid for the legal services of an attorney in Seattle to consult with approximately seven families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -32.9%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -27.4% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -64.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $68K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.