Kolbe School of Polish Language
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362822477
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7732833618
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $139,850
- Expenses
- $135,195
- Assets
- $137,660
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AGNIESZKA WOJTACH (PRESIDENT)
- EDYTA PAJAK-MOSZ (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- AGNIESZKA WOJTACH (PRESIDENT): $9,720 total reported compensation
- MALGORZATA BENBENEK (TREASURER): $9,240 total reported compensation
- EDYTA PAJAK-MOSZ (VICE PRESIDENT): $7,150 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
School of polish language
What it reported doing in 2025
Second language school to students of grades 0 to 11. On friday & saturday school teaches polish language to 229 students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 76% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 75.5%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $32.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.3%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.1%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73% of revenue deployed · 75.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $102K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $10K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.