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· Public charity

Phi Kappa Tau Foundation

To support the educational undertaking of the phi kappa tau fraternity and its chapters.

$631k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$1.7MMembership Benefit$1.3MHealth$604k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $551,335, the rows itemized in this filing. The $631,355 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $80,020 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–50k4 grants · $101k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$46,375
Median grant
6
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY$250,000
ALPHA ETA CHAPTER OF PKT HOUSE CORP$150,000
UPSILON OF PHI KAPPA TAU HOUSE CORP$50,000
SERIOUS FUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK$46,375
PKT CHAPTER HOUSE ASSOC OF MIAMI UNIV$22,500
PHI DELTA SIGMA$20,667
PHI KAPPA TAU LAMBDA HOUSE CORP$11,793
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UPSILON OF PHI KAPPA TAU HOUSE CORP: $50k → 13%PHI DELTA SIGMA: $21k → 16%BETA KAPPA CHAPTER HOUSE CORPORATION: $23k → 19%SERIOUS FUND CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $134k → 9%SERIOUS FUN CHILDRENS NETWORK: $103k → 12%PHI KAPPA TAU LAMBDA HOUSE CORP: $12k → 5%PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY - AFFILIATED CHAPTER'S: $448k → 12%GAMMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $18k → 15%ALPHA ETA CHAPTER OF PKT HOUSE CORP: $150k → 24%SERIOUS FUND CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $73k → 9%SERIOUS FUN CHILDRENS NETWORK: $94k → 12%PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY: $356k → 12%ALPHA CHI CHAPTER OF PKT HOUSE CORP: $38k → 24%SERIOUS FUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $46k → 9%SERIOUS FUN CHILDRENS NETWORK: $84k → 12%PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY: $250k → 12%SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $28k → 9%PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY CHAPTERS: $240k → 12%SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $26k → 9%PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY CHAPTERS: $233k → 12%SERIOUS FUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $14k → 9%PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY - AFFILIATED CHAPTER'S: $213k → 12%PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY CHAPTERS: $185k → 12%PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY - AFFILIATED CHAPTER'S: $108k → 12%PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY: $35k → 12%PKT CHAPTER HOUSE ASSOC OF MIAMI UNIV: $28k → 12%PKT CHAPTER HOUSE ASSOC OF MIAMI UNIV: $23k → 12%MCCULLOUGH-HYDE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $500 → 12%MCCULLOUGH-HYDE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $500 → 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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 7 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$3.4M
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+31%

Still filing today

43%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • PK
    PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY - AFFILIATED CHAPTER'S
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.3M
  • PK
    PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY CHAPTERS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $659k
  • PK
    PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $606k · revenue -3%

Funded once

  • PK
    PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • PK
    PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY
    one grant, 2024 · $23k · revenue -20%
  • GE
    GAMMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $18k · revenue +31%
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 Kappa Tau Fraternity

Fraternity operations.

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4
Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity

Social Club - Fraternity. 74 Members.

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5
Phi Sigma Kappa

To maintain and grow the Phi Sigma Kappa chapter at RPI.

—
6
Purdue Univ Phi Kappa Psi Association

To provide college student housing

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7
Gamma Tau Chapter Housing Corp

Lease real estate to gamma tau chapter of kappa alpha order

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8
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity

Non-profit fraternal organization

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9
Gamma Phi ChapterPhi Gamma Delta Alumni Association

Provide student housing for members of Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity at the Pennsylvania State Univeristy

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10
Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity

College fraternity providing leadership, social and schlorshipenvironment along with board and lodging for its members who areengaged in social service projects throughout the year. the membersare undergraduate students at the georgia…

Education
11
Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity Missouri

Collegiate social fraternity at the University of Missouri who attracts members who have demonstrated strength and achievement in character, academics, leadership, and services to others.

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12
Pennsylvania Lambda Corporation of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity

To promote academic and social brotherhood among members by providing and maintaining the fraternity house where members live while enrollled at the pennsylvania state university.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity; the most unlike its peers is Seriousfun Children's Network. 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

8 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. 8 of the 13 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY - AFFILIATED CHAPTER'S: $1,256,282 · OtherPHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY - AFFILIATED CHAPTER'SPHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY CHAPTERS: $658,789 · OtherPHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY CHAPTERSPHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY: $605,647 · OtherPHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITYALPHA CHI CHAPTER OF PHI KAPPA TAU AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND SCHOLARSHIP: $188,007 · OtherALPHA CHI CHAPTER OF PHI KAPPA TAU AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND SCHOLARSHIP+7 more: $209,079 · Other+7 moreSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $602,959 · HealthSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN…+1 more: $1,000 · Health
Other$2,917,804Health$603,959

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 budgetPHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY: $605,647 over 2y, 11% of budgetSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $602,959 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetPHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY UPSILON CHAPTER: $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetPHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY: $23,119 over 1y, 11% of budgetPHI DELTA SIGMA INC: $20,667 over 1y, 13% of budgetGAMMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMCCULLOUGH-HYDE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 2y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%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
    2get 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 · 0–5%
    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.

    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 13 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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