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Beta Kappa Phi Alpha Gamma Rho Scholarship Foundation at a glance

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Beta Kappa Phi Alpha Gamma Rho Scholarship Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$19k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$124kHealth$3kReligion$2k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$244k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Tennessee$5,000
University of Massachusetts Amherst$4,000
Binghamton University$2,000
University of Connecticut$2,000
Illinois State University$2,000
Wilmington University$2,000
University of Tampa$1,000
University of Tennessee$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%University of Arizona: $1k → 15%Wilmington University: $2k → 10%University of Massachusetts Lowell: $1k → 8%Northern Essex Community College: $3k → 10%University of Massachusetts Amherst: $4k → 12%Northeastern University: $2k → 16%American International College: $2k → 17%University of Pennsylvania: $3k → 22%Binghamton University: $2k → 20%University of Tampa: $1k → 13%University of Michigan: $1k → 14%Covenant Theological Seminary: $2k → 11%Manchester Community College: $1k → 11%University of Connecticut: $3k → 11%Wake Forest University: $1k → 15%Illinois State University: $2k → 11%DePaul University: $1k → 14%Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: $3k → 21%Southern NH University: $3k → 7%University of New Hampshire: $3k → 9%Endicott College: $3k → 10%University of Massachusetts Amherst: $4k → 12%Northeastern University: $1k → 16%University of Pennsylvania: $1k → 22%University of Michigan: $1k → 14%University of Connecticut: $3k → 11%Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: $3k → 21%Southern New Hampshire University: $2k → 7%University of New Hampshire: $3k → 9%University of Massachusetts Amherst: $3k → 12%Northeastern University: $1k → 16%University of Connecticut: $2k → 11%Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: $1k → 21%University of New Hampshire: $1k → 9%University of Massachusetts Amherst: $3k → 12%University of Connecticut: $2k → 11%Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: $1k → 21%University of Massachusetts Amherst: $3k → 12%University of Connecticut: $1k → 11%University of Massachusetts Amherst: $3k → 12%University of Massachusetts Amherst: $3k → 12%U Mass Boston: $2k → 16%University of Massachusetts Amherst: $2k → 12%University of Massachusetts Amherst: $2k → 12%University of Massachusetts Amherst: $2k → 12%University of Massachusetts: $1k → 12%University of Massachusetts Amherst: $1k → 12%University of Massachusetts Amherst: $1k → 12%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

NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
MO
VA
DE
AZ
TN
NC
SC
OK
AL
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Beta Kappa Phi Alpha Gamma Rho Scholarship Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 57%.

Beta Kappa Phi Alpha Gamma Rho Scholarship Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$96k · 14 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
16

Total granted

$96k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+30%

Still filing today

21%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2021 · $4k · revenue +87%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    3× · 2018–2021 · $3k · revenue +195%
  • DU
    DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • SN
    Southern NH University
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • ENDICOTT COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +16%
  • NE
    Northern Essex Community College
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
5
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
6
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
7
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
8
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
12
Albright College

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 35 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Massachusetts Amherst: $44,750 · OtherUniversity of Massachusetts AmherstUniversity of Connecticut: $11,250 · OtherUniversity of ConnecticutVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: $7,500 · OtherVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityUniversity of Tennessee: $7,500 · OtherUniversity of TennesseeUniversity of New Hampshire: $7,000 · OtherUniversity of New Hampshire+17 more: $28,350 · Other+17 moreNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $4,400 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVER…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNI…ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $3,000 · EducationENDICOTT COLLEGESouthern New Hampshire University: $2,000 · EducationSouthern New Hampsh…WILMINGTON UNIVERSITY INC: $2,000 · EducationWILMINGTON UNIVERSI…American International College: $1,750 · EducationAmerican Internatio…DEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · EducationDEPAUL UNIVERSITYThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $1,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · Education+4 more: $1,600 · Education+4 more
Other$106,350Education$21,750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $4,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $2,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILMINGTON UNIVERSITY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican International College: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $400 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds Southern New Hampshire University ↗
  • Who funds WILMINGTON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds American International College ↗
  • Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The University of Tampa Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗

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.

Ge FoundationVerizon FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ge FoundationCT12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Foundation · Verizon Foundation · 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 Beta Kappa Phi Alpha Gamma Rho Scholarship Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beta Kappa Phi Alpha Gamma Rho Scholarship Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Wilmington University Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 0% of income from government
  • Endicott College: 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • American International College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Beta Kappa Phi Alpha Gamma Rho Scholarship Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 35 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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