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· Public charity

Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation

To promote the ideals and values of the alpha epsilon pi fraternity through leadership development, to partner with educational and jewish communal organizations, to provide scholarships, financial support and programming for the betterment of our brothers and our community.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$6.6MPhilanthropy$2.0MEducation$1.5MArts & Culture$249kHealth$205kInternational$140kHuman Services$79kHousing & Shelter$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $1,399,402, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,961,740 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $562,338 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $339k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$13,829
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALPHA EPSILON PI FRATERNITY INC$1,015,594
ESPONDA ASSOCIATES INC GROUP$170,986
UNITED HATZALAH$92,728
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$75,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$13,829
ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND$10,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY$8,625
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$6,492
MAMAN NONPROFIT$6,148
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEROES TO HEROES FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%HEROES TO HEROES: $20k → 7%HEROES TO HEROES FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%HEROES TO HEROES FOUNDATION: $19k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
NY
IN
PA
NJ
CA
TN
DC
GA
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $256k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$256k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ISRAEL EDUCATION AND PROGRAMMING FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AT CAMPUSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 19 repeat orgs$335k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
13

Total granted

$10M
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+36%

Still filing today

79%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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EducationInternationalHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AE
    ALPHA EPSILON PI FRATERNITY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.5M · revenue +23%
  • EA
    ESPONDA ASSOCIATES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +125%
  • Vanderbilt University
    2× · 2017–2025 · $157k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • PC
    PINSKER CENTRE
    one grant, 2024 · $26k
  • SZ
    SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $17k
  • AF
    ARN FUNERAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $17k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
Sherit Isroel
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3
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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4
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
5
University of Judaism Foundation
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6
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
7
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
8
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
9
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
10
The Shalem Foundation

To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.

Crime & Legal
11
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
12
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
16/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALPHA EPSILON PI FRATERNITY INC: $7,492,511 · OtherALPHA EPSILON PI FRATERNITY INC+17 more: $398,873 · OtherESPONDA ASSOCIATES INC: $1,630,889 · EducationESPONDA ASSOCIATES IN…ESPONDA ASSOCIATES INC GROUP RETURN: $170,986 · EducationESPONDA ASSOCIATES IN…Vanderbilt University: $156,500 · EducationVanderbilt UniversitySIGMA ALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION: $86,000 · Education+3 more: $25,149 · EducationTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC: $100,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $87,200 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $84,000 · InternationalINNOVATION AFRICA: $40,000 · International+1 more: $6,148 · InternationalFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $188,228 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $60,500 · Arts & CultureISRAEL CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · HealthGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $51,361 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $13,829 · HealthB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $88,640 · Youth DevelopmentHeroes for Heroes: $79,300 · Human Services
Other$7,891,384Education$2,069,524International$317,348Arts & Culture$248,728Health$145,190Youth Development$88,640Human Services$79,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALPHA EPSILON PI FRATERNITY INC: $7,492,511 over 9y, 22% of budgetESPONDA ASSOCIATES INC: $1,630,889 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $188,228 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetESPONDA ASSOCIATES INC GROUP RETURN: $170,986 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetVanderbilt University: $156,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $88,640 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $87,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIGMA ALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION: $86,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $84,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetHeroes for Heroes: $79,300 over 4y, 82% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $60,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MADATECH-THE ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYINC: $60,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $51,361 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINNOVATION AFRICA: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $13,829 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $10,149 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillels of Georgia Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundAmerican Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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