Kids' Karate
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020547496
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Newton Center, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6175278052
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $24,373
- Expenses
- $24,283
- Assets
- $969
- Liabilities
- $51,302
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Richard S Jacobs (Director and Trustee)
- Margaret L Klingmeyer (Trustee)
- Frederick J Klingmeyer Sr (Trustee)
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
See Schedule O attached.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program service accomplishments, continued from Part III, Line 28: B. To combat community deterioration and various forms of juvenile deliquency and drug use by helping the children develop strength of character, a healthy sense of achievement, and a positive value system which serve as deterrents to negative activities, negative influences, and negative peer pressure by helping the children feel and build self-esteem, self confidence, and self-discipline. C. To diminish prejudice and discrimination by providing an environment of courtesy, sportsmanship, and mutual respect in ethnically diverse and co-educational classes. The Annual Kids Karate Exhibition provides an opportunity for children from different communities to interact and perform together. D. To provide a curriculum that allows the children to continue in the program with progressive development from beginners level through and beyond the rank of black belt.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.6%; rating input score 100
- 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: 0.4%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 52.94; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.3% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $24K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.