New York Kurdish Cultural Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874221788
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $78,469
- Expenses
- $55,131
- Assets
- $39,971
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HULYA KORTEL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- HULYA KORTEL (PRESIDENT)
- JANET BIEHL (SECRETARY)
- MYLES CAGGINS (BOARD MEMBER)
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
To create a safe space for kurds to enjoy their right to enjoy their culture.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our 9th annual kurdish film festival in 2025 was a full week with approximately 1300 participants. We showed 31 films. There was a book talk and signing, in addition to music and a dance on the opening night. We also had a special screening with roughly 100 attendie.s we also had a kurdish heritage month celebration throughout march with roughly 30 attendies.
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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 98.2%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 39; 39th 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: 29.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69% of revenue deployed · 98.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $54K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.