Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
580596852
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Athens, GA, USA
Phone
4047728424
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$371,889
Expenses
$325,680
Assets
$51,554
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • William Bell (President)
  • Samuel Gipson (First Vice President)
  • Camron Abshier (Second Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • William Bell (President)
  • Samuel Gipson (First Vice President)
  • Camron Abshier (Second Vice President)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The objectives of Nu Zeta shall be to maintain at the University of Georgia, an undergraduate unit of The Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity in accordance with its ideals, standards, traditions, and laws. Particularly, to build up the membership, ideals, spirit, organization, and physical equipment of this chapter so that affiliation therewith shall ever be regarded as an honor and privilege of which only the finest men are worthy. To foster a spirit of genuine brotherhood among its members, to make welcome within its home all members and associate members in good standing of other Zetas, to do all within its power to increase the friendly bond between the Zetas, to develop as much as possible a universal consciousness of fraternalism in The Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, to emphasize the fact that its badge and Initiation Ritual are sacred, that initiated membership is for life, and that its brotherhood is universal within its membership. To make good men great and great excellent.

What it reported doing in 2025

Providing housing to members while also having a house to maintain the chapter as a whole is the primary goal of the fraternity, as the house offers a space to foster the brotherhood sought for our in organization's creed.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 87.6%; rating input score 88
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • 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: 12.4%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 67% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 87.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $108K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.