Knights Pythias of Washington 7 Commencement Lodge

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
910284252
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Tacoma, WA, USA
Rating confidence
Limited

Reported finances

Revenue
$85,968
Expenses
$75,338
Assets
$349,059
Liabilities
$3,600

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Steve Dunkelberger (Trustee Chairman)
  • Gadot Gutierre (Trustee)
  • Phil Bessenas (Trustee and Lodge Steward)

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 fraternal order of the Knights of Pythias strives to live and promote the ideals of the order that of Friendship Charity and Benevolence through acts of service volunteerism community building and charitable giving all while also maintaining the historic Pythian Temple in downtown Tacoma.

What it reported doing in 2025

Annual ALZ walk and fundraiser support of Tacoma Youth Theater and Seabury School historic preservation talks and presentation of our historic temple to build a stronger sense of community and service to community efforts such as Historic Tacoma Puget Sound Honor Flight writers groups youth theater and education. The indirect benefits are countless but the direct impacts hover around 400. We also give historic tours not only of the Lodge but of Tacomas downtown as a way to promote community free of charge to those who ask.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 92% 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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.4%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.63; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 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.

  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.