USA Pencak Silat Federation
Legal name: USA Silat Federation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462518844
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Herndon, VA, United States
- Phone
- (240) 745-5629
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $94,390
- Expenses
- $94,841
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Abdul-Malik Ahmad (Vice President)
- Wona Sumantri (President)
People named in this filing
- Abdul-Malik Ahmad (Vice President)
- Wona Sumantri (President)
- Poppy Budhiastuti (Secretary)
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 facilitate, promote, and preserve the cultural and sports aspects of Silat through teaching its concepts. Seminar Content:** Advanced techniques in team development and management, logistics and best practices for hosting tournaments, comprehensive training in the rules and responsibilities of a Silat judge/referee, and strategies for promoting and growing Silat through competitive events. Each seminar weekend offers the chance to earn one of four coaching certificates, with training in Tanding (sparring techniques) and Seni (artistic forms like Jurus Tunggal). The program includes a uniform, orange sash, golok, and toya, and participants can observe a live class for practical insights. For out-of-town attendees, Hyatt House in Herndon, Virginia, provides convenient accommodation near our facili.
What it reported doing in 2025
Pencak Silat & Batik Festival 2025 and the USA OpenInternational Pencak Silat Championships. The two-day even brought together two of Indonesias treasured cultural legacies Pencak Silat and Batik in a showcase of harmony between strength and artistry. The event also served to strengthen the bonds of friendship between the peoples of Indonesia and the United States through creative and inclusive cultural diplomacy. The event was attended by martial artists from Indonesia, United States, Viet Nam, Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei Darussalam.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7.8%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 7.8%; rating input score 8
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.5%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -27% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -54.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 7.8% of revenue deployed · 7.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 8/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.