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Phi Delta Theta Foundation

To strengthen men for life by building on the tradition of our core values: Friendship, Sound Learning, and Rectitude.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$990k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$14,265
Largest grant, FY2024
$788,112
Organizations funded a year
5 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$42M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Phi Delta Theta Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$990k33%
FY20236$1.0M17%
FY20227$866k57%
FY20216$740k33%
FY20205$500k20%
FY20177$891kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.3MHousing & Shelter$1.7MHealth$92k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
OR
IN
OH
CA
MO
KS
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Phi Delta Theta Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPhi Delta Theta Fraternity: $2,866,547 over 6y, 12% of budgetThe Phi Delta Theta Club Of Columbia Missouri: $352,782 over 6y, 36% of budgetKappa Sigma Nu Association Inc: $328,109 over 4y, 49% of budget194 Spicer Inc: $247,350 over 2y, 42% of budgetWalter B Palmer Foundation Inc: $209,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetUsc Phi Delt House Corporation: $144,304 over 3y, 11% of budgetUniversity of Texas Phi Endowment Fund: $21,769 over 1y, 61% of budgetPhi Delta Theta Fraternity Texas Gamma Chapter: $20,161 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetAlabama Beta Chapter of Auburn Al Inc: $19,578 over 2y, 12% of budgetFoundation for Fraternal Excellence Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPhi Delt Alumni Association: $7,065 over 1y, 5.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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How do I get to Phi Delta Theta Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Phi Delta Theta 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.

About Phi Delta Theta Foundation

How much does Phi Delta Theta Foundation give?
Phi Delta Theta Foundation reported 9 itemized grants totaling $989,722, out of $1,726,886 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Phi Delta Theta Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (65%), Housing & Shelter (33%), Health (2%).
Who are Phi Delta Theta Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Phi Delta Theta Fraternity ($2.9M), The Phi Delta Theta Club Of Columbia Missouri ($353k), Kappa Sigma Nu Association Inc ($328k).
Does Phi Delta Theta Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Phi Delta Theta Foundation based?
Phi Delta Theta Foundation is based in OH.

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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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