Form 990 for tax year 2024
Filed by UKRAINIAN STUDIES CHAIR FUND INC.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $197,406
- Total expenses
- $399,733
- Contributions and grants received
- $106,749
- Grants paid
- $218,536
- Program service revenue
- $709
- Investment income
- $89,948
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $2,281,155
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $2,281,155
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $246,671
- Management and general expenses
- $146,621
- Fundraising expenses
- $6,441
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $246,671
Program services were 61.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1a · Federated campaigns
$0
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1b · Membership dues
$0
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1c · Fundraising events
$0
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1d · Related organizations
$0
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$0
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$106,749
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$0
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2a · Program service revenue: Royalty
total $709 · related or exempt $709 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2f · All other program service revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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3 · Investment income
total $89,948 · related or exempt $89,948 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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6c · Rental income or loss
real property $0 · personal property $0
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $0 · other assets $0
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8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $64,910 · program services $64,910
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $12,758 · program services $12,758
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $140,868 · program services $140,868
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0 · program services $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $104,464 · management and general $104,464 · fundraising $0
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $1,075 · management and general $1,075 · fundraising $0
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $30,575 · management and general $30,575 · fundraising $0
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $756 · management and general $756
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $1,769 · fundraising $1,769
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13 · Office expenses
total $4,298 · program services $29 · management and general $1,645 · fundraising $2,624
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14 · Information technology
total $18,842 · program services $10,008 · management and general $7,184 · fundraising $1,650
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15 · Royalties
total $549 · program services $549
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17 · Travel
total $11,799 · program services $11,658 · management and general $119 · fundraising $22
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $817 · program services $441 · fundraising $376
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24a · Other expenses: State registration
total $291 · program services $0 · management and general $291 · fundraising $0
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24b · Other expenses: Publications
total $5,050 · program services $5,050 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24c · Other expenses: Bank Fees
total $912 · program services $400 · management and general $512 · fundraising $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $11,896 · end of year $9,517
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $2,275,587 · end of year $2,073,451
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $195,998 · end of year $198,187
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12 · Investments: other securities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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13 · Investments: program-related
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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14 · Intangible assets
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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18 · Grants payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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21 · Escrow or custodial account liability
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $2,483,481 · end of year $2,281,155
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Funding charitable and educational work in Ukrainian studies.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Funding charitable and educational work in Ukrainian studies, including teaching and research programs at Columbia, Harvard and other universities; studies of social and cultural transformations in Ukraine; investigation of the catastrophic famine of 1932-33 in Soviet Ukraine.
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Ukrainian studies - supporting research at Harvard, Columbia and other North American universities; funding teaching programs in Ukrainian language, history, literature and culture; expanding Ucrainica collections at major university libraries; supporting academic publishing in Ukrainian studies and preservation of archival source material for studies of Ukrainian history, language, society and culture.
Expenses $115,122 · Grants $99,668
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Project on Democracy in Ukraine - supports research and analysis of political, economic, social and cultural transformations in Ukraine. Involves Columbia, Harvard and other universities; features support for scholarly activities, including joint publication efforts, conferences and workshops, and online subscriptions to digital archives.
Expenses $105,992 · Grants $103,868
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Famine Study Project - investigates the catastrophic famine of 1932-33 in Soviet Ukraine through support of research, publications, preservation of archival source material related to the famine period, outreach to scholars, educators and the public.
Expenses $25,557 · Grants $15,000 · Revenue $709
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Dora Chomiak
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Lionel Ivashkiv
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Adriana Helbig
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Kalyna Procyk
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Dr Bohdan Vitvitsky
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Roman Procyk
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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George Farion
Vice-president
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Alex Labunka
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.
Grants on this return
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Trustees of Columbia University
$50,000
Teaching Program support
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 10 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.0
- Source object
- 202503159349302700
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