Kick for Peace Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
992755615
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Demarest, NJ, USA
Phone
9177504962
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Recreation& Sports N.E.C.

Reported finances

Expenses
$5,281
Assets
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JAY CHO (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JAY CHO (PRESIDENT)
  • GLORIA KIM (VICE PRESIDE)
  • RYAN CHO (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

Mission statement: kick for peace is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization whose mission is to provide soccer balls to children and youth in various refugee camps around the world. We seek to use soccer as a tool to bring joy, hope and a measure of normalcy to children and youth who have been forcibly displaced from their homes as a result of conflict, violence or natural disasters.

What it reported doing in 2025

Purpose of kick for peace: these children in refugee camps have fled traumatic or life threatening situations at home and often face unimaginable challenges at refugee camps but they should not have to forfeit their childhoods. It is for them that kick for peace exists and they are the focal point of kick for peace. Simply put, the overriding purpose of kick for peace is to use the power of the world's most popular sport to deliver moments of joy, positivity, hope and happiness to children caught in the midst of chaos of displacement in refugee camps. As die hard soccer fans, we believe in the magical and transformative power of the beautiful game to uplift the spirits of children in refugee camps by alleviating the effects of their displacement from their homes. We want to see children be children through soccer and we hope that playing soccer offers moments of respite from life's challenges. Through the simple gift of a soccer ball, we hope to bring even a little joy, laughter and hope to children who are living in difficult circumstances.

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
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: NotEnoughData
  • Sustainability: 11
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 1 of 1 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.