Korean American Women's Association of Chicago
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363761552
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Wheeling, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8479207447
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,225
- Expenses
- $88,912
- Assets
- $298,249
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AE SON KOH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- AE SON KOH (PRESIDENT)
- MIRA IM (GENERAL SECR)
- CHRISTINE YOON (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Kawac provides workshops and programs for all ages of korean american women in various areas by helping them to discover their own identities and achieving their dreams.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provides seminars, counseling services, workshops and radio broadcasting to help to achieve better marital/family life, community life, wellness and social assimilation
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 67% for direct work, and 33% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 20
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 17.9%; rating input score 18
- Program expense ratio: 24%; rating input score 24
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.8%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.35; rating input score 77; 77th 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: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 17.9% of revenue deployed · 24% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 18/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.