Shaolin Hung Mei Kung Fu Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841512981
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Boulder, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3035073800
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,881
- Expenses
- $130,139
- Assets
- $185,608
- Liabilities
- $1,500
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HOWARD SOLOW (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- HOWARD SOLOW (PRESIDENT)
- WENDY SMITH (SECRETARY)
- ROB WENGENROTH (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To expand and advance the knowledge of shaolin hung mei to bridge eastern and western philosophies
What it reported doing in 2025
Instruction in chinese history, culture, theory, philosophy and martial arts. Performance of chinese kung fu, chinese lion dance and dragon dance. Administer the "academy of chinese martical and cultural arts," a center dedicated to the promulgation of chinese arts and culture.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.1%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.9%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.43; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $130K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.