Knights of Columbus
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237544891
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Greenville, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7245889911
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies & Associations
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,273
- Expenses
- $52,171
- Assets
- $171,257
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- WALTER BEH (TRUSTEE)
- ANTHONY DISALVO (TRUSTEE)
- FRANK YOKUBEAK (TRUSTEE)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
And Vision Our Mission The Knights of Columbus empowers Catholic men to live their faith and serve their family, parish, community and country. The Knights of Columbus empowers Catholic men to live their faith and serve their family, parish, community and country. Our Vision. The burden of knowing that their death would likely leave their families penniless and at risk of being separated. A child of immigrants, and a faithful son who had to leave seminary to help support his mother and siblings after his factory-employed father died, Father McGivney was intimately familiar with these realities. And so, as an assistant priest at St. Mary’s Church in the bustling port city of New Haven, Connecticut, he stepped into the breach to do something about it. Gathering men in his parish basement, Father McGivney founded the Knights of Columbus.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide support for expenses of St. Michael Church and School and support various charitable community activities such as food banks, school athletics and disaster relief.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 82% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.28; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 200 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 10 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.