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Pi Beta Phi Foundation

PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION enables the fraternity to realize its vision and ensures the future of our sisterhood.

$3.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Housing & Shelter$7.7MEducation$5.2MMembership Benefit$1.2MYouth Development$131kArts & Culture$7kHealth$5k
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 24 grants below total $3,313,244 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,770,738 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $457,494 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $154k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.1M
$10,704
Median grant
18
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OK BETA OF PI BETA PHI HOUSING CORP$1,210,315
MISSOURI ALPHA CHAPTER OF PI BETA PHI$1,083,449
TEXAS ETA CHAPTER OF PI BETA PHI CORPORATION$406,548
PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY$397,741
AR ALPHA HOUSING CORP$27,000
THE LEAP FROG PROGRAM$21,850
TUSCALOOSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI$16,000
MN ALPHA CHAPTER OF PI BETA PHI$15,269
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$11,950
INDIANA UNIVERSITY - BLOOMINGTON$11,500
OKLAHOMA ALPHA CHAPTER OF PI BETA PHI$10,704
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$8,900
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $10k → 19%CHICAGO LITERACY ALLIANCE: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 21 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
36

Total granted

$12M
$664k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+12%

Still filing today

76%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • PB
    PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $5.3M · revenue +27%
  • PB
    PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY OKLAHOMA BETA CHAPTER
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +62%
  • PB
    PI BETA PHI ARKANSAS ALPHA HOUSE CORPORATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +34% · 82% of their budget

Funded once

  • PB
    PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY MISSISSIPPI BETA CHAPTER
    one grant, 2024 · $359k · revenue +19%
  • TF
    TPL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -34%
  • TF
    TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +88%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Pi Beta Phi Fraternity Texas Zeta Chapter

To mutually encourage and assist members in social, mental, and moral advancement.

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2
Alpha Pi Building Corporation

Provide a suitable social environment for collegiate members.

Recreation & Sports
3
Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity Beta Alpha Chapter

Brotherhood, Scholarship,Leadership

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4
Delta Sigma Chapter of Alpha Delta Pi House Corporation

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

Education
5
Alpha Psi House Corporation of Delta Gamma Inc

Provide a suitable social environment for collegiate members.

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6
Beta Theta Pi Holding Company

Provide housing for college students at kansas state university.

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7
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity

The organization is an association of men of integrity who strive to develop the individual in his intellect, in his involvement in the community, and in his faith.

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8
Delta Chi Fraternity Kansas Chapter

Provide fraternal services - room & board and social activities for members

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9
Gamma Iota Chapter of Alpha Delta Pi House Corporation

To provide housing, meals, and a meeting place for social activities of college age women, members of gamma iota chapter of alpha delta pi sorority.

Education
10
Phi Lambda Phi Fraternity Massachusetts Theta Chapter

To provide comfortable living space which promotes both academic and social growth to a group of about 40 undergraduate students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Education
11
Gamma Iota House Corporation

Provide for our members a safe, quality living environment that promotes academic excellence and individual and chapter success. We are committed to fiscal responsibility, operating with integrity , honoring tradition and demonstrating…

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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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pi Beta Phi Fraternity Missouri Alpha Chapter and the most unlike its peers is Umom New Day Centers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 57 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%52%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%3%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr16%95%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
3/71
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,494

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/55
Grantees still filing
31/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY — $5,295,226 · OtherPI BETA PHI FRATERNITYPI BETA PHI FRATERNITY OKLAHOMA BETA CHAPTER — $3,765,274 · OtherPI BETA PHI FRATERNITY OKLAHOMA BETA CHAPTERPI BETA PHI ARKANSAS ALPHA HOUSE CORPORATION — $1,439,119 · OtherPI BETA PHI ARKANSAS ALPHA HOUSE CORPORATIONPI BETA PHI FRATERNITY MISSOURI ALPHA CHAPTER — $1,083,449 · OtherPI BETA PHI FRATERNITY MISSOURI ALPHA CHAPTER+41 more — $2,193,340 · Other+41 moreLAFAYETTE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL — $24,512 · EducationTHE LEAP FROG PROGRAM INC — $21,850 · EducationTPL FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationHATTIESBURG PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC — $17,383 · EducationEDUCATE FAIRFAX — $17,000 · EducationDrury University — $13,100 · EducationKIDS NEED TO READ — $12,726 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $11,950 · EducationTHE BOOK TRUCK INC — $10,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC — $10,000 · EducationMaryville University - St Louis — $7,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — $7,000 · Education+5 more — $29,914 · EducationBoys Club of Brazos County Inc — $124,214 · Youth DevelopmentTUSCALOOSA CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · PhilanthropyTUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS — $15,883 · Arts & CultureWords Alive — $5,105 · Arts & CultureUNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $10,276 · Human ServicesCHICAGO LITERACY ALLIANCE — $8,315 · Human ServicesDeaf Community Services of San Diego Inc — $5,894 · HealthThe Children's Hospital of Alabama — $5,312 · HealthUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC — $8,630 · Housing & Shelter
Other$13,776,408Education$202,935Youth Development$124,214Philanthropy$45,000Arts & Culture$20,988Human Services$18,591Health$11,206Housing & Shelter$8,630

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPI BETA PHI FRATERNITY — $5,295,226 over 8y, 14% of budgetPI BETA PHI ARKANSAS ALPHA HOUSE CORPORATION — $1,439,119 over 6y, 82% of budgetPI BETA PHI FRATERNITY MISSOURI ALPHA CHAPTER — $1,083,449 over 1y, 65% of budgetKANSAS BETA OF PI BETA PHI HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $443,027 over 4y, 48% of budgetPI BETA PHI FRATERNITY TEXAS EPSILON CHAPTER — $412,301 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPI BETA PHI FRATERNITY MISSISSIPPI BETA CHAPTER — $359,130 over 1y, 12% of budgetPI BETA PHI FRATERNITY ARIZONA ALPHA CHAPTER — $274,910 over 2y, 13% of budgetOKLAHOMA BETA OF PI BETA PHI INC — $144,898 over 4y, 15% of budgetBoys Club of Brazos County Inc — $124,214 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetPi Beta Phi Corp of Lubbock co Michelle Stephens — $107,153 over 2y, 30% of budgetINDIANA DELTA OF PI BETA PHI INC — $73,774 over 2y, 10% of budgetTUSCALOOSA CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetPI BETA PHI OREGON ALPHA HOUSE — $35,238 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetLAFAYETTE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL — $24,512 over 2y, 21% of budgetTHE LEAP FROG PROGRAM INC — $21,850 over 1y, 20% of budgetTPL FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetEDUCATE FAIRFAX — $17,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPI BETA PHI FRATERNITY OKLAHOMA ALPHA CHAPTER — $16,223 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS — $15,883 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDrury University — $13,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS NEED TO READ — $12,726 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $11,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN BETA OF PI BETA PHI ASSN INC — $10,492 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $10,276 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING CONNECTIONS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BOOK TRUCK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $9,696 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC — $8,630 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO LITERACY ALLIANCE — $8,315 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SCHOOL OKLAHOMA CITY INC — $7,685 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE READING CONNECTION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMaryville University - St Louis — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF EAST ALABAMA — $7,039 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPI BETA PHI FRATERNITY TENNESSEE DELTA CHAPTER — $6,823 over 1y, 10% of budgetSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC — $6,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPI BETA PHI FRATERNITY IOWA GAMMA CHAPTER — $6,271 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTraveling Stories — $6,176 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCornell University — $5,960 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF J L KING — $5,898 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetPI BETA PHI FRATERNITY COLORADO ALPHA CHAPTER — $5,794 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPI BETA PHI FRATERNITY CALIFORNIA GAMMA CHAPTER — $5,767 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama — $5,312 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $5,280 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPI BETA PHI FRATERNITY MISSISSIPPI GAMMA CHAPTER — $5,180 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWords Alive — $5,105 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Dollar General Litera…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Dollar General Literacy FoundationTN10.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dollar General Literacy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Pi Beta Phi Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • United Community Action Program Inc — 62% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Pi Beta Phi Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pi Beta Phi 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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