Knoxville Area Programs and Partnerships for Achievement Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223972860
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Knoxville, TN, USA
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,750
- Expenses
- $3,716
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
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 of the organization is to provide activities and assistance in support of programs designed to enhance the social economic and educational achievement of youth disadvantaged and elderly within the greater Knox County and East Tennessee area.
What it reported doing in 2025
Kappa Guide Right Program: The Guide Right Program is the national youth service initiative of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity created in 1922 to provide educational occupational and leadership guidance to young people. Core mission is to place the training experience and interest of successful men at the disposal of youth needing mentorship and career counsel.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.8%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35.4%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd 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: 45.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -36.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 12 filed program accomplishments · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 7 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.