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Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Inc

Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $880,600 to it, the largest being TKE FOUNDATION INC ($880,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$536k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$881k
Net assets
$62k
1/1 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Inc does

Mission

To provide housing for full time college students of the fraternity

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide housing for full time college students of the fraternity

    $614,427 spent$536,479 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $614,427.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($159k) Expenses 100 ($156k) Net assets 100 ($36k)2018 Revenue 298 ($473k) Expenses 265 ($413k) Net assets 263 ($95k)2019 Revenue 323 ($513k) Expenses 293 ($458k) Net assets 412 ($150k)2020 Revenue 268 ($425k) Expenses 240 ($375k) Net assets 550 ($200k)2021 Revenue 269 ($428k) Expenses 257 ($401k) Net assets 624 ($227k)2022 Revenue 295 ($469k) Expenses 320 ($499k) Net assets -6680 ($-2428449)2023 Revenue 377 ($599k) Expenses 374 ($584k) Net assets -6639 ($-2413535)2024 Revenue 409 ($649k) Expenses 304 ($476k) Net assets -6161 ($-2239734)2025 Revenue 338 ($536k) Expenses 401 ($627k) Net assets 171 ($62k)
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Revenue (338)Expenses (401)Net assets (171)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $411k to $62k (−85%).

$36k
$95k
$150k
$200k
$227k
$322k
$312k
$411k
$62k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’17
$59k
’18
$54k
’19
$50k
’20
$27k
’21
−$31k
’22
$15k
’23
$174k
’24
−$90k
’25
1.2
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Colton Gholson

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed444444444
Joined·+3+4+4+4+4+0+1+1
No longer listed·34444011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $831k → $50k.

Funder
'17
'19
total
Tke Foundation Incunclassified
$881k
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state in all.

IN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’19
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Inc has grown faster than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−17% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Inc

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Inc?
Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $880,600 to it, the largest being TKE FOUNDATION INC ($880,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $880,600 in grants to Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Inc?
TKE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $880,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing