Washington · Nonprofit
SEVEN STAR WOMENS KUNG-FU
SEVEN STAR WOMENS KUNG-FU (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $124,973 to it, the largest being JOHN E & ELIZABETH KURTZ CHARITABLE FND ($51,650). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $170k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $125k
- Net assets
- $140k
What Seven Star Womens Kung-Fu does
Mission
Seven Star Women's Kung Fu teaches self defense and the art of Kajukenbo to gender marginalized individuals (women identifying individuals and genderqueer/nonbinary people who live in the greater Seattle area). We represent four generations of women teaching women and nonbinary folks in the martial arts. For 43 years we have enabled individuals to learn self defense and train in the martial arts by offering free childcare to parents while they train, ASL interpreting, scholarships, sliding scale monthly dues based on income, and free community self defense classes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Martial Arts Program. Seven Star is dedicated to the empowerment of women identifying folks and nonbinary/genderfluid individuals through martial arts and self defense. We have a number of programs in place to facilitate women and girls and nonbinary/genderfluid folks training in the martial arts. Monthly dues are based on a sliding scale. Scholarships are available for ongoing training and special workshops. Parents can take advantage of free, onsite childcare during classes. Sign language interpreters make classes and tests more accessible for our deaf students. We have never turned an individual away due to an inability to pay. Our 2024 martial arts student population ranged between 60-70 students/month. We offer an introductory martial arts and self defense series three times a year serving approximately 20 students per session. We maintained a masking policy at the school throughout 2024 to support our immunocompromised students. In 2024, we tested 25 student for their next belt rank. We have students who are high school aged and students who are in the late 60s.
$97,299 spent93% of program spendingSelf Defense Program. Our mission and programs include a commitment to self defense, particularly for women and girls (age 11+). Seven Star Women's Kung Fu taught 22 self defense workshops serving 294 individuals in 2024. We teach self defense in the community with community partners, at-risk populations, schools, corporate groups, and small private groups. Our students volunteer their time to teach and assist at workshops. We pay our instructors for teaching time and administration time. We go out into the community to teach self-defense workshops free of charge.
$3,263 spent3% of program spendingChildcare Program: In 2024, we offered free childcare to parents to enable them to train in our martial arts classes. Parent demand varied for childcare over the year. At any given time we have anywhere from 1-5 parents who request childcare for classes.
$2,350 spent2% of program spendingContinuing Education Program. We offer additional training opportunities for our teachers and students to attend conferences, martial arts workshop, or other training that augments or complements their training path. We also offer continuing education for our staff related to their job description.
$1,942 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $104,854.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $246k to $231k (−6%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Eugenia Mares Kurtz
Executive Director
Board chair
Tyler LePard
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $23k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SEVEN STAR WOMENS KUNG-FU’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SEVEN STAR WOMENS KUNG-FU leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SEVEN STAR WOMENS KUNG-FU.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 50% · 2022 97% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
SEVEN STAR WOMENS KUNG-FU draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SEVEN STAR WOMENS KUNG-FU?
- SEVEN STAR WOMENS KUNG-FU (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $124,973 to it, the largest being JOHN E & ELIZABETH KURTZ CHARITABLE FND ($51,650). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEVEN STAR WOMENS KUNG-FU have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $124,973 in grants to SEVEN STAR WOMENS KUNG-FU, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEVEN STAR WOMENS KUNG-FU?
- JOHN E & ELIZABETH KURTZ CHARITABLE FND is the largest funder on record, with $51,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEVEN STAR WOMENS KUNG-FU find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing