Tennessee Conference of Zetas Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472074851
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Somerville, TN, USA
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Leadership Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,725
- Expenses
- $139,764
- Assets
- $45,057
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- Joyce Murphy (State 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
The Tennessee Conference of Zetas are members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. who reside in the state of Tennessee. Zeta Phi Beta Sororitys core purpose is to foster the ideals of service scholarship sisterhood and finer womanhood. It aims to promote positive change encourage high scholastic achievement foster unity among members and address societal ills prejudices and poverty. The sorority achieves this through community outreach scholarship funding and support for various charitable and social causes
What it reported doing in 2025
Zeta Phi Beta Sororitys core purpose is to foster the ideals of service scholarship sisterhood and finer womanhood. It aims to promote positive change encourage high scholastic achievement foster unity among members and address societal ills prejudices and poverty. The sorority achieves this through community outreach scholarship funding and support for various charitable and social causes
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 80% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 2
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 1.8%; rating input score 2
- Program expense ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 2
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 28; 28th 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: -170.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 1.8% of revenue deployed · 1.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 2/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.