Knights of Columbus
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953844523
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Orange, CA, USA
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fraternal Beneficiary Societies
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $34,903
- Expenses
- $35,245
- Assets
- $72,926
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Louis Gardner (President)
- Ralph Ruiz (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Louis Gardner (President)
- Ralph Ruiz (Vice President)
- Steven Martinez (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 primary purpose is the guiding of 54 Knights of Columbus Councils in Orange County CA.
What it reported doing in 2025
Event Expenses such as the annual Orange Walk For Life.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 71% for direct work, and 29% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.7%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 59.1%; rating input score 59
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.07; rating input score 66; 66th 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: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.7% of revenue deployed · 59.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.