Seven Star Womens Kung-fu
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911329933
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2067201046
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $169,764
- Expenses
- $170,457
- Assets
- $223,852
- Liabilities
- $83,917
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Eugenia Mares Kurtz (Executive Director)
- Tyler LePard (Board President)
- Shelly Smith (Board Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Michelle McVadon (Chief Instructor)
- Eugenia Mares Kurtz (Executive Director)
- Allyson Riley (Co-Chief Instructor)
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
Seven Star Women's Kung Fu teaches self defense and the art of Kajukenbo to gender marginalized individuals (women identifying individuals and genderqueer/nonbinary people who live in the greater Seattle area). We represent four generations of women teaching women and nonbinary folks in the martial arts. For 43 years we have enabled individuals to learn self defense and train in the martial arts by offering free childcare to parents while they train, ASL interpreting, scholarships, sliding scale monthly dues based on income, and free community self defense classes.
What it reported doing in 2024
Martial Arts Program. Seven Star is dedicated to the empowerment of women identifying folks and nonbinary/genderfluid individuals through martial arts and self defense. We have a number of programs in place to facilitate women and girls and nonbinary/genderfluid folks training in the martial arts. Monthly dues are based on a sliding scale. Scholarships are available for ongoing training and special workshops. Parents can take advantage of free, onsite childcare during classes. Sign language interpreters make classes and tests more accessible for our deaf students. We have never turned an individual away due to an inability to pay. Our 2024 martial arts student population ranged between 60-70 students/month. We offer an introductory martial arts and self defense series three times a year serving approximately 20 students per session. We maintained a masking policy at the school throughout 2024 to support our immunocompromised students. In 2024, we tested 25 student for their next belt rank. We have students who are high school aged and students who are in the late 60s.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 74% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.7%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 61.5%; rating input score 62
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: -0.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 61%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.7% of revenue deployed · 61.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $105K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.