Kappa Foundation of Columbia Sc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462470189
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Columbia, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8034099739
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $72,543
- Expenses
- $77,019
- Assets
- $22,563
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- JAMES MELVIN (CHAIRMAN)
- MARCUS ROBINSON (SECRETARY)
- KEVIN GLEATON (TREASURER)
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
The kappa foundation of columbia was established with a mission to raise funds to support promoting actvities and scholarships designed to enable the youth in our community to reach their full potential and become successful, productive citizens and to enhance the lives of needy individuals within the sc midlands geographical region
What it reported doing in 2025
Twenty seven scholarships in the amount of $1,000 each to graduating highschool students. All the scholarships were provided by the golf tournament in 2024 and donations
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. 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: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.2%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 35.1%; rating input score 35
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.2%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 23; 23rd 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 37.2% of revenue deployed · 35.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.