Sokol USA
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 221287847
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Boonton, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9736760281
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,642
- Expenses
- $194,834
- Assets
- $1,379,339
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSEPH S BIELECKI (PRESIDENT)
- DEBORAH J GOLDEN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN KENNEDY (FATERNAL SECRETARY): $16,000 total reported compensation
- JOSEPH S BIELECKI (PRESIDENT): $4,600 total reported compensation
- HEIDI JAYE YATCHYSHYN (CO-DIRECTOR): $2,800 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of sokol of the united states of america [sokol U.S.a.]is to promote a sound mind in a sound body thru physical, cultural, moral and educational development of its members
What it reported doing in 2025
Providing gymnastic programs, sports programs, safety guidlines, cultural and development programs to its members
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
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 73
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 69.5%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -95.5%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.08; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.9% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -16.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 69.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $135K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $16K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.