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Delta Delta Delta Foundation

Tri delta's foundation raises funds to provide transformational programs, scholarships and emergency financial support to empower our sisters for a lifetime.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$872k
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.

Membership Benefit$6.8MEducation$3.2MHousing & Shelter$932kHealth$379kArts & Culture$33k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $1,707,684, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,563,698 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $856,014 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

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $296k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$178,996
Median grant
4
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DELTA DELTA DELTA FRATERNITY$872,243
THETA GAMMA HC$527,664
PHI ETA HC$178,996
TRI DELTA HOUSING$116,632
NU HC$12,149
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 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DELTA DELTA DELTA FRATERNITY: $1.1M → 14%PHI ETA LOCAL HOUSE CORPORATION: $276k → 17%THETA GAMMA HC: $528k → 16%DELTA XI LOCAL HOUSE CORPORATION: $180k → 17%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEACH HOPSITAL: $253k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR FRATERNAL EXCELLENCE: $25k → 5%NU - OHIO STATE: $68k → 15%CHI LOCAL HOUSE CORPORATION: $389k → 18%DELTA DELTA DELTA FRATERNITY: $1.1M → 14%DELTA XI LOCAL HOUSE CORPORATION: $40k → 17%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEACH HOPSITAL: $54k → 17%NU - OHIO STATE: $43k → 15%CHI LOCAL HOUSE CORPORATION: $291k → 18%DELTA DELTA DELTA FRATERNITY: $872k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEACH HOPSITAL: $25k → 17%NU HC: $12k → 15%CHI LOCAL HOUSE CORPORATION: $162k → 18%DELTA DELTA DELTA FRATERNITY: $856k → 14%CHI LOCAL HOUSE CORPORATION: $146k → 18%DELTA DELTA DELTA FRATERNITY: $805k → 14%CHI LOCAL HOUSE CORPORATION: $94k → 18%DELTA DELTA DELTA FRATERNITY: $713k → 14%CHI LOCAL HOUSE CORPORATION: $69k → 18%DELTA DELTA DELTA FRATERNITY: $562k → 14%DELTA DELTA DELTA FRATERNITY: $477k → 14%TRI DELTA HOUSING - THETA OMEGA: $355k → 14%TRI DELTA HOUSING - ZETA: $282k → 14%TRI DELTA HOUSING - ALPHA ETA: $274k → 14%TRI DELTA HOUSING: $117k → 14%TRI DELTA HOUSING - ZETA: $109k → 14%TRI DELTA HOUSING - ZETA: $105k → 14%TRI DELTA HOUSING - BETA MU: $105k → 14%TRI DELTA HOUSING - DELTA LAMBDA: $94k → 14%TRI DELTA HOUSING - DELTA LAMBDA: $71k → 14%DDD NHC FOR BETA MU: $66k → 14%TRI DELTA HOUSING - ALPHA ETA: $62k → 14%TRI DELTA HOUSING - ZETA: $42k → 14%DELTA DELTA DELTA FRATERNITY: $41k → 14%DDD NHC FOR BETA MU: $37k → 14%DELTA DELTA DELTA FRATERNITY: $35k → 14%DELTA DELTA DELTA FRATERNITY: $33k → 14%TRI DELTA HOUSING - ALPHA ETA: $33k → 14%TRI DELTA HOUSING - DELTA LAMBDA: $25k → 14%TRI DELTA HOUSING - BETA MU: $24k → 14%TRI DELTA HOUSING - DELTA LAMBDA: $20k → 14%TRI DELTA HOUSING - THETA IOTA: $15k → 14%TRI DELTA HOUSING - ALPHA ETA: $10k → 14%TRI DELTA EDUCATIONAL FUND SMU INC: $45k → 14%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

IN
OH
MO
TN
OK
MS
GA
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 10 repeat orgs$953k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$10M
$425k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+9%

Still filing today

70%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $528k 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
EducationHealthMembership BenefitOther
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

  • DD
    DELTA DELTA DELTA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.6M · revenue +200%
  • TD
    TRI DELTA HOUSING INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $409k · revenue ×15
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $344k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • TD
    TRI DELTA HOUSING - THETA OMEGA
    one grant, 2024 · $355k
  • TD
    TRI DELTA EDUCATIONAL FUND OF SMU INC
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +9%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR FRATERNAL EXCELLENCE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -47%
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
Delta Tau Delta House Association Inc

Renovate and maintain chapter house for members use while attending depauw university

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2
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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3
Sigma Tau of Kappa Delta Housing Associa

Provide Chapter House for Students

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4
Delta Gamma Chapter Association

Hold real property used by undergraduate chapter of nationally chartered social fraternity.

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5
Delt Housing Corporation

Delt housing corporation leases and maintains real property and real property improvements for social and residential use of the college student members and alumni of the epsilon delta chapter of the delta tau delta fraternity.

Recreation & Sports
6
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity - Ohio Delta Chapter

College Fraternity

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7
Delta Sigma Chapter of Alpha Delta Pi House Corporation

Provide housing for undergraduate chapter of a national collegiate social sorority.

Education
8
Phi Delta Theta Alumni Associa

Fraternity organization providing meeting space chapter activities and lodging

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9
Kappa Delta Epsilon Iota House Corp

Provide housing for university students

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10
Delta Tau Delta Association of Columbia Mo

A house corporation that owns the delta tau delta fraternity house at the the university of missouri - columbia. the mission is to provide housing for the gamma kappa chapter of the delta tau delta fraternity.

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

Provide Fraternity Housing.

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12
Phi Sigma Kappa Chi Deuteron Wsu

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

Membership Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delta Delta Delta National House Corp - Group Return; the most unlike its peers is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DELTA DELTA DELTA: $6,584,553 · OtherDELTA DELTA DELTACHI LOCAL HOUSE CORPORATION: $1,152,430 · OtherCHI LOCAL HOUSE CORPORATIONDELTA DELTA DELTA DBA ZETA HOUSE CORP: $538,071 · OtherPHI ETA HOUSE CORP OF DELTA DELTA DELTA SORORITY: $455,363 · OtherTRI DELTA HOUSING INC: $408,961 · OtherTRI DELTA HOUSING - THETA OMEGA: $355,046 · OtherDELTA DELTA DELTA NATIONAL HOUSE CORP - GROUP RETURN: $348,138 · Other+4 more: $403,545 · OtherDelta Delta Delta Housing Corporation: $527,664 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $343,881 · HealthDelta XI Housing Corp of Delta Delta Delta: $228,118 · Membership Benefit
Other$10,246,107Education$527,664Health$343,881Membership Benefit$228,118

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 budgetDELTA DELTA DELTA: $6,584,553 over 9y, 12% of budgetDelta Delta Delta Housing Corporation: $527,664 over 1y, 62% of budgetPHI ETA HOUSE CORP OF DELTA DELTA DELTA SORORITY: $455,363 over 2y, 67% of budgetDELTA DELTA DELTA NATIONAL HOUSE CORP - GROUP RETURN: $348,138 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $343,881 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDelta XI Housing Corp of Delta Delta Delta: $228,118 over 3y, 21% of budgetDELTA DELTA DELTA NU HOUSE CORP: $122,880 over 3y, 17% of budgetTRI DELTA EDUCATIONAL FUND OF SMU INC: $45,344 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FRATERNAL EXCELLENCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 Delta Delta Delta Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Delta Delta Delta Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–10%
    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 Delta Delta Delta Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Delta Delta Delta 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 14 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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