Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362152330
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7733714432
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $47,694,836
- Expenses
- $58,749,572
- Assets
- $77,789,911
- Liabilities
- $26,818,842
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANETTE ANTHONY REED (INTL PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LORRI NEWSON (EX-CFO): $182,263 total reported compensation
- NICOLE H BARRETT (DEPUTY DIRECTOR): $180,989 total reported compensation
- PATRICIA WATKINS (DRTR OF MEMBERSHIP): $140,314 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our purpose is to cultivate high scholastic and ethical standards, through outreach programs in education, health, leadership development, community service and other areas that improve the social stature of women and girls, and be of service to all mankind.UNDER CODE SECTION 501(C)7 AKA IS A SOCIAL CLUB ORGANIZED FOR PLEASURE, RECREATION AND NON-PROFIT PURPOSES WHICH INCLUDE RELIGIOUS, CHARITABLE, SCIENTIFIC, LITERARY AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT. THESE CHARITABLE FUNCTIONS ARE SUPPORTED WITH FUNDS SET ASIDE FOR THESE PURPOSES IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE CODE SECTION.
What it reported doing in 2025
Boule fund is the constitutional, decision-making body of the sorority. It is established for general operating expenses including the expenses incurred for the boule, which is the sorority's biannual international convention. Others are the coip and special funds.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 37
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.4%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 51.5%; rating input score 51
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.32; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.4% of revenue deployed · 51.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 18 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $30.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $182K · 23 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $11.8M reported
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.