Tau Endowment Fund Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
300186027
IRS 990-PF coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-PF 2025
Location
Ithaca, NY, USA
Phone
9147644703
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Voluntarism Promotion

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$819

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

Overview

Mission

Voluntarism Promotion

What it reported funding in 2025

The foundation reported 1 grant totaling $239. The stated grant purpose was educational.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this foundation funds its work.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The foundation combined direct charitable work with grants to other organizations or people.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants.

Rating breakdown

  • Grant Deployment: 100
  • Cost Efficiency: 29
  • Transparency: NotEnoughData
  • Compliance: 100
  • Endowment Health: 69

Detailed rating inputs

Grant Deployment

  • Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Cost Efficiency

  • Grant expense ratio: 29.2%; rating input score 29; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency

  • Grant recipient disclosure: Limited

Compliance

  • Part VII-B activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
    • Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
    • Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Payment to a government official: Pass
    • Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
    • Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
    • Excess business holdings: Pass
    • Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
    • Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
    • Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
    • Attempt to influence an election: Pass
    • Grants to individuals: Pass
    • Grants to organizations: Pass
    • Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
    • Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
    • Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
    • Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
  • Filing consistency checks: 8; rating input score 100

Endowment Health

  • Endowment-health comparison: 4.96; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Grants: Filed grants detail
  • Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
  • Trustees: Filed trustees detail
  • Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
  • Investments: 69th percentile for endowment coverage
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Cost Efficiency: Grant expense ratio scored 29/100.