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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc

The fraternity goal is to provide assistance to the community in efforts to achieve better social and economic status through the principles of the scholarship, fellowship, good character, and the uplifting of humanity.

$92k
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.

Arts & Culture$375kEducation$160kPhilanthropy$85kCivil Rights$85kYouth Development$70kHealth$60kMembership Benefit$60kCrime & Legal$20kOther$0
02FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$100,000
THE ROCKTEEN YOUTH FOUNDATION$50,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF DALLAS$25,000
NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK$25,000
NCNW SPONSORSHIP DONATION$25,000
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE$20,000
CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION$15,000
NATIONAL IOTA FOUNDATION$10,000
COLLABORATIVE HEALING INITIATIVE WITHIN COMMUNITIES$10,000
BARBARA-SCOTIA COLLEGE$10,000
THE KAPPA FOUNDATION$10,000
THE DELTA RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
PHI BETA SIGMA IMPACT FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $20k → 17%GREATER WAVERLY FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%COLLABORATIVE HEALING INITIATIVE WITHIN COMMUNITIES: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Young Black Scholar Institute
Community Improvement
2
The African-American Educational and Cultural Festival Inc
Arts & Culture
3
Hbcu 20X20 Foundation

HBCU 20x20 is the worlds largest network for HBCU and Black job seekers. We relentlessly pursue opportunities for others because when we all work together any and everything is possible. Born from the idea that students at HBCU…

Employment
4
Hbcu First Inc

Hbcu first is a student-led community helping black youth navigate the college-to-career journey. as the nation's leading hbcu internship and mentoring program, hbcu first advances the wellbeing of students at over 70 historically black…

Arts & Culture
5
Spelman College

Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.

Education
6
Pro-Equity Anti-Racism Institute
Philanthropy
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
American Baptist Theological Seminary dba American Baptist College

Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.

Education
9
Benedict College

Benedict college is committed to providing transformative learning experiences characterized by high quality academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular programming, intentionally designed to develop superior cultural and professional…

Education
10
Institute of Asian Scholars

naisA Global is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization dedicated to helping talented young Asian professionals unlock their potential and become great leaders. It is the only non-profit of its kind to provide a global platform to…

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11
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists

Give scholarship to students going to collage

Social Science
12
National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators

Fellowship for Black and Latino males that springboards them into principal, senior level, and C-suite roles, increasing the number, longevity, and impact of Black and Latino males in the education sector.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delta Research & Educational Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Golf My Future Mygame. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%40%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
1/22
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,543

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWEL HERITAGE PROJECTS INC — $150,000 · OtherJEWEL HERITAGE PROJECTS INCAUS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherAUS FOUNDATIONBENNETT COLLEGE — $30,000 · OtherBENNETT COLLEGEASALH — $25,000 · OtherWILLIAM H GRAY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF AKRON SCHOOL OF LAW — $20,000 · Other+17 more — $180,000 · Other+17 moreTHE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INCAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $25,000 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUMGOLF MY FUTURE MYGAME — $10,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $25,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO…Thurgood Marshall College Fund — $25,000 · EducationThurgood Mar…Youth Guidance — $20,000 · EducationYouth Guidan…THE NATIONAL IOTA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationTHE NATIONAL…OMEGA CHARITIES INC — $10,000 · EducationOMEGA CHARIT…Piney Woods School — $10,000 · EducationPiney Woods …Barber-Scotia CollegeInc — $10,000 · EducationBarber-Scoti…ROCKTEEN YOUTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesThe Greater Waverly Foundation — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOLLABORATIVE HEALING INITIATIVE WITHIN COMMUNITIES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC — $25,000 · Public BenefitDELTA RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Public BenefitNational Council of Negro Women Inc — $25,000 · International
Other$480,000Arts & Culture$235,000Education$110,000Youth Development$50,000Human Services$40,000Public Benefit$35,000International$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Council of Negro Women Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Guidance — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOMEGA CHARITIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetPHI BETA SIGMA FRATERNITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOLF MY FUTURE MYGAME — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLABORATIVE HEALING INITIATIVE WITHIN COMMUNITIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKAPPA ALPHA PSI FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBarber-Scotia CollegeInc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDELTA RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANDREW J YOUNG FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

AARPThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
AARPDC14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AARP · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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