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· Public charity

Beta Theta Pi Foundation

The principal purpose of the organization, hereinafter referred to as the foundation, shall be to foster the charitable, scientific, literary and educational purposes of beta theta pi.

$4.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$1.5M
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$15MYouth Development$7.9MRecreation & Sports$4.1MHousing & Shelter$1.9MMembership Benefit$1.6MHealth$90k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $3,914,023, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,208,619 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $294,596 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 $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $61k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $263k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.6M
$84,252
Median grant
8
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETA NU OF BETA THETA PI BUILDING COMPANY$1,513,157
BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY$1,443,250
FLORIDA BETA STUDENT AID FUND$357,852
FOREVER ALPHA COMPANY$258,484
BETA THETA PI HOLDING COMPANY$99,357
BETA THETA PI HOUSING CORPORATION$84,252
TAU SIGMA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$79,487
WICHITA STATE HOUSE CORPORATION$44,238
BETA THETA PI BUILDING CORPORATION$16,450
GAMMA ETA ASSOCIATION$8,876
EPSILON OMICRON CHAPTER HOUSE CORPORATION$8,620
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BETA UPSILON ASSOCIATION: $220k → 16%PETERS TRUST COMPANY OF MOSCOW IDAHO (C2): $120k → 16%BETA THETA PI BUILDING CORPORATION (C7): $1.1M → 15%Beta Theta Pi Corporation of Oklahoma: $714k → 16%Tau Sigma Alumni Association: $752k → 5%BETA THETA PI HOLDING COMPANY: $949k → 20%BETA MU HOUSE CORPORATION (C7): $241k → 9%BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY: $1.6M → 12%THETA DELTA OF BETA THETA PI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $445k → 15%BETA NU OF BETA THETA PI BUILDING COMPANY: $1.5M → 16%GAMMA DELTA BUILDING ASSOCIATION: $454k → 12%EPSILON OMICRON CHAPTER HOUSE CORPORATION (C7): $901k → 11%BETA UPSILON ASSOCIATION (C7): $141k → 16%BETA THETA PI BUILDING CORPORATION: $488k → 15%BETA THETA PI CORPORATION OF OKLAHOMA: $660k → 16%TAU SIGMA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (C7): $269k → 5%BETA MU HOUSE CORPORATION: $166k → 9%BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY: $1.4M → 12%THETA DELTA OF BETA THETA PI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $400k → 15%BETA NU OF BETA THETA PI BUILDING COMPANY: $1.0M → 16%EPSILON OMICRON CHAPTER HOUSE CORPORATION (C7): $188k → 11%BETA THETA PI BUILDING CORPORATION: $133k → 15%BETA THETA PI CORPORATION OF OKLAHOMA (C7): $629k → 16%TAU SIGMA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $135k → 5%BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY: $1.3M → 12%THETA DELTA OF BETA THETA PI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $364k → 15%BETA NU OF BETA THETA PI BUILDING COMPANY: $158k → 16%BETA THETA PI CORPORATION OF OKLAHOMA (C7): $358k → 16%ALPHA CHAPTER HOUSE COMPANY (C7): $1.2M → 12%The Beta Theta Pi Building Association: $609k → 15%BETA THETA PI CORPORATION OF OKLAHOMA: $245k → 16%BETA THETA FRATERNITY (C7): $992k → 12%THE BETA THETA PI BUILDING ASSOCIATION (C7): $605k → 15%BETA THETA PI CORPORATION OF OKLAHOMA: $170k → 16%BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY: $912k → 12%THE BETA THETA PI BUILDING ASSOCIATION (C7): $216k → 15%BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY: $907k → 12%BETA THETA FRATERNITY (C7): $843k → 12%BETA THETA FRATERNITY: $814k → 12%BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY: $723k → 12%FOREVER ALPHA COMPANY: $622k → 12%ALPHA CHAPTER HOUSE COMPANY (C7): $527k → 12%ALPHA CHAPTER HOUSE COMPANY: $428k → 12%FOREVER ALPHA COMPANY: $378k → 12%ALPHA CHAPTER HOUSE COMPANY: $286k → 12%FOREVER ALPHA COMPANY: $258k → 12%FOREVER ALPHA COMPANY: $257k → 12%Alpha Chapter House Company: $227k → 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

WA
ID
MN
MI
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
KY
KS
OK
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30M · 23 repeat orgs$770k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
7

Total granted

$30M
$641k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+24%

Still filing today

78%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • BT
    BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.5M · revenue +13%
  • BT
    Beta Theta Pi Building Co - Beta Nu
    5× · 2019–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +555% · 91% of their budget
  • BT
    Beta Theta Pi Building Corporation
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +34% · 93% of their budget

Funded once

  • TD
    THETA DELTA OF BETA THETA
    one grant, 2024 · $400k
  • PT
    PETERS TRUST COMPANY OF MOSCOW ID
    one grant, 2019 · $120k
  • BR
    BETA RHO ALUMNI ASSNgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +307% · 33% of their budget
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
Phi Kappa Psi - Oregon Alpha Chapter S&T Fraternity Management

Housing for college fraternity

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2
Beta Theta Chapter of Sigma Nu Building Association

Owns the house of beta theta chapter of sigma nu fraternity. is responsible for mortgage payments on the house, as well as various expenses, including repairs and maintenance.

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3
Sigma Tau of Kappa Delta Housing Associa

Provide Chapter House for Students

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4
Phi Sigma Kappa Chi Deuteron Wsu

Provide occupancy for live-in members of Phi Sigma Kappa WSU Fraternity.Provide Philanthropy for Community.

Membership Benefit
5
Georgia Tech Chapter of Delta Chi Fraternity Housing Corporation

Chapter housing leased to members to provide an environment for study, sleep, hygiene, meals and fellowship, suitable for the development of men attending the institute for education.

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6
Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Inc

To provide housing for full time college students of the fraternity

Recreation & Sports
7
Alpha Nu Beta Theta Pi House Association

The Alpha Nu Beta Theta Pi House Association provides housing to the Alpha Nu Chapter of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity at the University of Kansas and its members. The Association owns and maintains a historically significant and culturally…

Education
8
Alpha Pi Building Corporation

Provide a suitable social environment for collegiate members.

Recreation & Sports
9
Beta Pi House Corp Delta Delta Delta

To provide campus housing for sorority members

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10
Beta Omega House Corporation of Delta Gamma Frater

Provide a suitable social environment for collegiate members.

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11
Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity /Fiji House Corp University of Akron

Provide Fraternity Housing.

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12
Kappa Delta Epsilon Iota House Corp

Provide housing for university students

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beta Theta Pi Fraternity; the most unlike its peers is Peters Trust Company of Moscow Id. 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

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 32 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
15/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY: $9,515,092 · OtherBETA THETA PI FRATERNITYBETA THETA PI FRATERNITY: $4,180,939 · OtherBETA THETA PI FRATERNITYBETA THETA PI BUILDING ASSOCIATION: $2,239,561 · OtherBETA THETA PI BUILDING ASSOCIATIONBeta Theta Pi Building Corporation: $1,874,353 · OtherBeta Theta Pi Building CorporationTau Sigma Alumni Association: $1,426,632 · OtherTau Sigma Alumni AssociationBETA THETA PI HOLDING COMPANY: $1,122,892 · Other+21 more: $3,554,261 · Other+21 moreBETA THETA PI CORPORATION OF OKLAHOMA: $2,918,946 · Recreation & SportsBETA THETA PI CORPORATION…Beta Theta Pi Building Co - Beta Nu: $2,788,286 · Recreation & SportsBeta Theta Pi Building Co…EPSILON OMICRON CHAPTER HOUSE CORPORATION OF BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY: $1,097,578 · Recreation & SportsEPSILON OMICRON CHAPTER H…+1 more: $37,764 · Recreation & SportsCrucible Building Association: $164,423 · Education
Other$23,913,730Recreation & Sports$6,842,574Education$164,423

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBETA THETA PI FRATERNITY: $9,515,092 over 9y, 22% of budgetBETA THETA PI CORPORATION OF OKLAHOMA: $2,918,946 over 8y, 42% of budgetBeta Theta Pi Building Co - Beta Nu: $2,788,286 over 5y, 91% of budgetBETA THETA PI BUILDING ASSOCIATION: $2,239,561 over 5y, 49% of budgetBeta Theta Pi Building Corporation: $1,874,353 over 7y, 93% of budgetBETA THETA PI HOLDING COMPANY: $1,122,892 over 3y, 65% of budgetEPSILON OMICRON CHAPTER HOUSE CORPORATION OF BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY: $1,097,578 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBETA THETA PI FRATERNITY OF PURDUE: $742,714 over 6y, 31% of budgetGamma Delta Building Association: $526,742 over 3y, 59% of budgetFlorida Beta Student Aid Fund: $478,625 over 3y, 33% of budgetCrucible Building Association: $164,423 over 4y, 50% of budgetBETA KAPPA HOUSE COMPANY: $151,479 over 5y, 17% of budgetBETA THETA PI SOCIETY OF MN: $94,699 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FRATERNAL EXCELLENCE INC: $90,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetASSOCIATION OF FRATERNITYSORORITY ADVISORS FOUNDATION: $64,000 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetHOUSE CORPORATION OF DELTA MU CHAPTER OF BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY: $58,795 over 5y, 17% of budgetGamma Nu Chapter House Association: $47,230 over 3y, 14% of budgetGamma Eta Association OF BETA THETA PI INC: $40,889 over 5y, 29% of budgetBETA RHO ALUMNI ASSN: $39,638 over 1y, 33% of budgetDEPAUW BETA STUDENT AID FUND INC: $33,573 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetBETA THETA PI CLUB OF MICHIGAN: $20,936 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetBETA THETA PI FRATERNITY: $7,648 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Beta Theta Pi Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Beta Theta Pi 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 32 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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