Roman James Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812523211
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Clinton Township, MI, USA
- Phone
- 5867410420
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $32,461
- Expenses
- $34,349
- Assets
- $19,396
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARIA UDICKI (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARIA UDICKI (PRESIDENT)
- DRAGOSLAV UDICKI (VICE PRESIDE)
- ANGELINA JANCA (SECRETARY/TR)
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 provide charitable services for the comfort of families in a time of crisis, including but not limited to providing certain direct specified benefits to families who have lost a child at birth on a grant basis. Such services may include assisting in providing funding for direct bereavement expenses, such as funeral and burial costs; assisting with funding costs for related education and consulting for both affected family members and also assist in providing funding for otherwise unfunded costs for the training of related hospital personnel to aid impacted family members in dealing with the grief process.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide funds for direct bereavement expenses, such as funeral and burial costs to seventeen families in Michigan who lost a child at birth in 2019 and to educate nurses, doctors and other hospital staff in bereavment understanding
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 97% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.9%; 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: -5.8%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 34; 34th 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: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.