Ukraine House Dc Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
872080907
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2027023424
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Reported finances

Revenue
$26,321,642
Expenses
$24,815,979
Assets
$8,641,838
Liabilities
$3,483,039

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DANYLO VOLYNETS (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • MARIANNA FALKOVA (TREASURER): $72,604 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Working in close synergy with Embassy of Ukraine in the USA, Ukraine House is a place to be if you would like to discover Ukraine, learn more about Ukraine, taste Ukraine, invest in Ukraine, travel to Ukraine, support Ukraine, join Ukraine, be Ukraine.

What it reported doing in 2025

During 2025, Ukraine House conducted a range of cultural, educational, and community programs consistent with its exempt charitable and educational purposes. The organization served approximately 16,580 attendees through 88 public events held at its facilities and partner venues. Programs included 12 art exhibitions, 17 educational workshops and masterclasses, 5 literary events (book talks), 3 musical performances, and 4 film screenings. These activities were designed to promote cultural education, public dialogue, and awareness of Ukrainian history, arts, and contemporary issues. Ukraine House also supported humanitarian awareness and fundraising initiatives in cooperation with established charitable programs, including United24 and Olena Zelenska Foundation. These efforts focused on raising public awareness and facilitating support for civilian relief, medical assistance, education, and reconstruction projects benefiting populations affected by the war in Ukraine In 2025, the organization purchased a permanent facility through mortgage financing to serve as its principal place of operations. Ownership of a permanent building enables Ukraine House to conduct ongoing charitable and educational programming, maintain administrative functions, and provide a stable venue for public activities aligned with its mission. The facility supports the organizations long-term sustainability and capacity to deliver services to the community. In addition, Ukraine House continued implementation of its Unbreakable prosthetics and rehabilitation initiative, providing direct assistance to Ukrainian children affected by the war. In 2025, the organization continued its long-term support of Karolina, one of the programs beneficiaries, ensuring access to advanced prosthetic care, rehabilitation services, and social adaptation support. This program reflects Ukraine Houses commitment to tangible humanitarian impact through structured, mission-aligned charitable programming.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 94% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 49
  • Accountability: 63
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 94.3%; rating input score 94
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.7%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 28.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 64.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 94.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2 of 2 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $73K · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 30 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.