North Dakota State University Chi Alpha
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994545407
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Fargo, ND, USA
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $175,270
- Expenses
- $111,869
- Assets
- $63,401
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
People named in this filing
- Bryce Bakkegard (Campus Director)
- Josh Brose (CMIT Director)
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
NDSU Chi Alpha is a campus-based Christian student organization serving students at North Dakota State University. It was formed for religious and educational purposes with the primary goal of helping students explore and live out the teachings of Jesus Christ. The organization fulfills this purpose through weekly worship gatherings small group Bible studies discipleship leadership development and campus and community service activities that promote spiritual growth ethical living and personal development.
What it reported doing in 2025
Mission Trips Spring break and summer mission trips to serve churches missionaries Students at NDSU and churches missionaries we partner with Baton Rouge Louisiana; Camp Hope Alaska; Fort Yates North Dakota; Minneapolis MN 11 students to Baton Rouge 9 to Camp Hope 30 to Fort Yates 7 to Minneapolis Service & outreach focus for each trip in the local community
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.6%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 84%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.2%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.6% of revenue deployed · 84% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $94K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.