Knights of Columbus
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272600965
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Council Bluffs, IA, USA
- Phone
- 7123105241
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fraternal Societies
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,829
- Expenses
- $6,069
- Assets
- $9,831
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- Dennia McEnearney (Officer, Grand Knight)
- Dean Fleege (Officer, Financial Secretary)
- Russell Sindelar (Officer, Deputy of the Grand Knight)
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 Knights were formed to render financial aid to members and their families. Mutual aid and assistance are offered to sick, disabled, and needy members and their families. Social and intellectual fellowship is promoted among members and their families through educational, charitable, religious, social welfare, war relief, and public relief works.
What it reported doing in 2025
1. Collection of Goods 2. Knights of Columbus, St. Patrick Council 11296 3. St. Patrick Catholic Church in Council Bluffs, IA 4. The Knights set up collection bins at the Church for parishioners to donate goods to a charity each month. The collection and transportation of goods accounts for 3.89 percent of total annual activity hours. 5. Parishioners freely donate the needed goods to benefit the charity's cause. This is a non-expense activity. 6. If parishioners donate money, in addition to collecting goods, the proceeds are donated to the charity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.1%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.1%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.62; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 91.1% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.