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· Public charity

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 FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$788k
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 2024.

Education$3.3MHousing & Shelter$1.7MHealth$92k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $989,722, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,726,886 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $737,164 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $102k
  • $250k+1 grant · $788k
$14,265
Median grant
7
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity$788,112
USC Phi Delt House Corp$101,861
Kappa Sigma Nu Association$25,000
Texas Gamma House Corporation$20,161
Phi Delta Theta Club Columbia$14,265
Alabama Beta Chapter$14,078
Sonoma State Univ$11,680
Foundation for Fraternal Exce$7,500
Phi Delt Alumni Association$7,065
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Sonoma State Univ: $17k → 9%Phi Delt Alumni Association: $7k → 12%USC Phi Delt House Corporation: $31k → 14%Univ of Texas Phi Endowmt Fd: $22k → 10%Texas Gamma House Corporation: $20k → 16%Phi Delta Theta Alumni Assoc: $264k → 21%Kansas Alpha Phi Delta Theta: $91k → 5%MO Epsilon of Phi Delta Theta Ed: $72k → 15%Phi Delta Theta Club of Columbia MO: $142k → 17%Kappa Sigma Nu Association Inc: $211k → 18%Foundation for Fraternal Exce: $8k → 5%Phi Delta Theta Fraternity: $788k → 12%194 Spicer Inc: $209k → 13%PDT Hse Corp at OH Univ: $73k → 13%Phi Delta Theta Chptr Hse Assoc: $18k → 16%Sonoma State Univ: $12k → 9%MO Epsilon of Phi Delta Theta: $7k → 15%Phi Delta Theta Club Columbia: $107k → 17%Kappa Sigma Nu Association: $69k → 18%Phi Delta Theta Fraternity: $625k → 12%194 Spicer Inc: $39k → 13%PDT Hse Corp at OH Univ: $14k → 13%PDT Chptr Hse Assoc of Cinti: $50k → 16%Sonoma State Univ: $8k → 9%Phi Delta Theta Club Columbia: $44k → 17%Kappa Sigma Nu Association: $25k → 18%Phi Delta Theta Fraternity: $455k → 12%PDT Chptr Hse Assoc of Cinti: $41k → 16%Phi Delta Theta Club Columbia: $26k → 17%Kappa Sigma Nu Association: $23k → 18%Phi Delta Theta Fraternity: $357k → 12%PDT Chptr Hse Assoc of Cinti: $34k → 16%Phi Delta Theta Club Columbia: $20k → 17%Phi Delta Theta Fraternity: $334k → 12%Phi Delta Theta Club Columbia: $14k → 17%Phi Delta Theta Fraternity: $307k → 12%Walter B Palmer Foundation: $209k → 12%LiveLikeLou Foundation: $84k → 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

MI
OR
IN
OH
CA
MO
KS
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 9 repeat orgs$722k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$4.3M
$687k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-25%
+51%

Still filing today

89%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • PD
    PHI DELTA THETA FRATERNITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +39%
  • UP
    USC PHI DELT HOUSE CORPORATION
    3× · 2017–2024 · $144k · revenue +67%
  • AB
    ALABAMA BETA CHAPTER OF AUBURN AL INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • PD
    PHI DELTA THETA ALUMNI ASSOCIA
    one grant, 2021 · $264k
  • WB
    Walter B Palmer Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $209k · revenue +109% · 49% of their budget
  • KA
    KANSAS ALPHA OF PHI DELTA THETA
    one grant, 2020 · $91k · revenue -2%
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
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity - Ohio Delta Chapter

College Fraternity

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3
Phi Eta House Corp of Delta Delta Delta Sorority

To provide guidance and shelter to members

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4
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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5
Sigma Tau of Kappa Delta Housing Associa

Provide Chapter House for Students

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6
Phi Sigma Kappa Chi Deuteron Wsu

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

Membership Benefit
7
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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8
Pallas Athena Holdings

Operation of collegiate chapter houses for members of the phi delta theta fraternity.

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9
Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity /Fiji House Corp University of Akron

Provide Fraternity Housing.

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10
Phi Delta Sigma Inc

Provide a residential facility for undergraduates to live, study, and participate in social activities and athletic events. the members also participate in volunteer activities to support the community. the organization provides a place…

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11
Phi Gamma Delta Foundation

To provide housing for active student members.

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12
Embry-Riddle Chapter of Delta Chi Fraternity Building Corporation Inc

Title holding corporation for exempt organization college fraternity that provides housing for student fraternity members attending Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phi Delta Theta Chapter House Association of Cincinnati; the most unlike its peers is Phi Delta Theta Alumni Associa. 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

17 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. 17 of the 18 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHI DELTA THETA FRATERNITY: $2,866,547 · OtherPHI DELTA THETA FRATERNITYPHI DELTA THETA ALUMNI ASSOCIA: $263,924 · OtherPHI DELTA THETA ALUMNI ASSOCIAWalter B Palmer Foundation Inc: $209,000 · OtherWalter B Palmer Foundation IncUSC PHI DELT HOUSE CORPORATION: $144,304 · Other+7 more: $275,684 · Other+7 moreKAPPA SIGMA NU ASSOCIATION INC: $328,109 · EducationKAPPA SIGMA NU ASSOC…194 SPICER INC: $247,350 · Education194 SPICER INCPHI DELTA THETA HOUSE CORPORATION: $212,771 · EducationPHI DELTA THETA HOUS…LIVELIKELOU FOUNDATION: $84,118 · EducationLIVELIKELOU FOUNDATI…+1 more: $17,599 · EducationThe Phi Delta Theta Club Of Columbia Missouri: $352,782 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $7,065 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,759,459Education$889,947Recreation & Sports$359,847

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

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
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 Phi Delta Theta Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Phi Delta Theta Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%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
    1get no government money at all
    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 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.

    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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