Theta Zeta Lambda Chapter - a Phi A

What it reported doing in 2025

Our Esquire Leadership and Mentor Program (ELMP) was revamped and revitalized for the 2025-26 Fraternal Year. The Mission of the program did not change at all, and remains steadfast on empowering young black men, ages 12-17, with a sense of achieving a high level of education, leadership, and service to humanity. Our Vision is to prepare these young men to become highly educated leaders that are able to guide their families, but also be socially conscientious enough to realize that their leadership skills and positive role model propensities are essential to the communities in which they live. To that end, there were 36 young men that successfully filled out the application for the ELMP, and of that number, roughly 32 regularly attend our scheduled meetings and planned events. Their parents/guardians also play a positive role in the success of this program (if just for merely bringing them to our events), and we have 41 such individuals signed to our roster, with about 35 that participate on a relatively consistent basis. The mentoring part of ELMP is facilitated by the Brothers of TZL Chapter. We have 35 trained and certified "Mentors", to interact with our Esquires in a one on one fashion, and a few of our TZL members have agreed to take on more than one Esquire to that no one is left out. I do not have enough characters in this box to describe the breath and depth of this reinvigorated program, so I encourage the reviewer of this tax preparation to visit our website, Annarboralphas.org, to see first hand the scope of what we are trying to do in the ELMP. The website has all the information about TZL Chapter, the yearly calendar of events that we sponsor and/or participate in, all of our programs, how individuals and organizations can become financial sponsors to some of our programs (and the level of sponsorship available), and other pertinent information as it relates to the Chapter. There are 13 headers containing information on just the EMLP, once you click on the Alpha Esquire logo, and all this was created and is currently being maintained for the most part, by one extraordinary Brother. This Brother also has acquired ~75% of the roughly $10,500 ELMP budget for the 2025-26 Fraternal Year through a written grant proposal and donations acquired in 2025. Most of the money for the EMLP was spent in the first three months on 2026, and therefore, will be reported on next year's tax forms.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 24.8%; rating input score 25
• Program expense ratio: 29.5%; rating input score 30

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 17%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 49.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 32.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings