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Delta Theta Phi Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Delta Theta Phi Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$60kCrime & Legal$1k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$220k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
San Joaquin College of law$3,000
thomas Jefferson School of Law$1,500
Case Western School of Law$1,500
Trinity Law School$1,500
Lincoln Law School of Sacramento$1,500
Touro University$1,500
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%university of Mass law school: $750 → 10%university of Mass law school: $2k → 11%University of St Thomas Law: $8k → 11%Trinity Law School: $2k → 10%thomas Jefferson School of Law: $2k → 11%Lincoln Law School of Sacramento: $2k → 12%Southwestern School of Law: $3k → 14%San Joaquin College of law: $3k → 19%Touro University: $2k → 7%South Texas College of Law: $1k → 16%bowen school of law: $1k → 17%metropolitan Detroit Alumni: $3k → 8%wayne state univ law: $750 → 21%Birmingham School of Law: $1k → 16%university or toledo: $1k → 12%Case Western School of Law: $2k → 17%Univ of Toledo College of Law: $1k → 18%University of Mississippi Law Schoo: $1k → 18%Univ of South Dakota School Law: $2k → 20%southern university law center: $750 → 19%University of Mass Law School: $2k → 11%ST Thomas Law school: $8k → 11%Lincoln Law School of Sacramento: $2k → 12%Southwestern law school: $2k → 14%San Joaquin College of law: $2k → 19%metropolitan Detroit Alumni: $3k → 8%Birmingham School of Law: $1k → 16%Case Western School of Law: $2k → 17%Univ of South Dakota Law School: $1k → 20%university of st Thomas Law: $6k → 11%san joquin law school: $2k → 19%miles law school: $1k → 16%Case Western School of Law: $2k → 17%University of St Thomas Law: $3k → 11%San Joaquin College of law: $1k → 19%miles law school: $750 → 16%Case Western Law School: $1k → 17%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

MN
MI
MA
SD
OH
CA
AR
LA
MS
AL
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$44k · 8 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +170% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
14

Total granted

$44k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+170%
+28%

Still filing today

25%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • UO
    University of St Thomas Law
    4× · 2022–2025 · $17k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2021–2022 · $6k
  • SJ
    San Joaquin College of Law
    3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue -17%

Funded once

  • ST
    ST Thomas Law school
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • SS
    Southwestern School of Law
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • SL
    SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +28%
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of St Thomas Law: $17,000 · OtherUniversity of St Thomas LawST Thomas Law school: $7,500 · OtherST Thomas Law schoolIndividual grant recipient: $5,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSan Joaquin College of Law: $5,500 · OtherSan Joaquin College of LawCase Western School of Law: $4,500 · OtherCase Western School of Lawuniversity of Mass law school: $4,000 · Otheruniversity of Mass law schoolLincoln Law School of Sacramento: $3,000 · OtherSouthwestern School of Law: $2,500 · Other+14 more: $17,250 · Other+14 moreSOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL: $2,000 · EducationThomas Jefferson School of Law: $1,500 · EducationSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC: $1,000 · Education
Other$67,000Education$4,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Joaquin College of Law: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILES LAW SCHOOL: $1,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThomas Jefferson School of Law: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC: $1,000 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 San Joaquin College of Law ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MILES LAW SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Thomas Jefferson School of Law ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Delta Theta Phi Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Delta Theta Phi Foundation Inc. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
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    How do I get to Delta Theta Phi Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Delta Theta Phi Foundation Inc 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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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