United States-ukraine Business Council

Overview

Mission

The u.s.-ukraine business council was established in october 1995 to advance u.s. Companies' trade and investment interests in ukraine's significant emerging market, advocate for measures to improve conditions for bilateral trade and investment, and generally promote strong, friendly bilateral ties. To fulfill this mission, the council seeks to: assure that the u.s. Business viewpoint is known and given highest consideration in the formulation of u.s. Government policies towards ukraine; assure that the u.s. Business perspective, including the u.s. Business community's desire to contribute constructively to ukraine's vigorous market development, is understood within the ukrainian public and private sectors; make u.s. Business views known to the government and private sector of ukraine with respect to policies and legal, regulatory and other matters which bear significantly upon the willingness or ability of u.s. Companies to trade with or invest in ukraine; andfacilitate direct contacts

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.

Distribution model

Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

REVIEW - Most voting board members are independent and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 0
• Transparency & Controls: 39
• Accountability: 82
• Sustainability: 52
• Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
• Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $690K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $152K · 18 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and executive pay
• Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 3 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.
• Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

• High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
• High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
• High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
• High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
• High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
• High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
• High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.