Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300154459
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Hamtramck, MI, USA
- Phone
- 3137334535
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $509,851
- Expenses
- $567,931
- Assets
- $169,333
- Liabilities
- $169,333
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VIRGINIA SKRZYNIARZ (CEO CoFounder)
People named in this filing
- DR DOMINIK STECULA (Chair)
- VIRGINIA SKRZYNIARZ (CEO CoFounder)
- STELLA SZCZESNY (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Piast Institute is a National research and policy center which serves Polish Americans & other ethnic groups and provides social services at the local level.
What it reported doing in 2025
Social services, social science to immigrants and their families and local ethnic and immigrant groups including research and data for help in building community capacity. Including prevention activities to suppor a healthy community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 97% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 24
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.5%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 75%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.4%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.5% of revenue deployed · 75% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $61K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 23 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX InformationTechnology column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.