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Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation

To maintain a permanent war memorial and to promote excellence in education and leadership by providing appropriate grants/scholarships/awards.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Itemized grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
63%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$1.5M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$58,432
Largest grant, FY2024
$429,257
Organizations funded a year
4 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$40M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’23
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 arriving10$1.5M50%
FY20238$754k63%
FY20197$1.2M86%
FY20174$2.9Mn/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$6.2MArts & Culture$111kMembership Benefit$12k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IA
IN
OH
CA
VA
TN
NC
OK
LA
MS
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity$2,953,9832n/a
Pike University Inc$969,868851%
Beta Mu Building Company$690,803368%
Pi Kappa Alpha Union$424,0121n/a
Theta Omicron of Pi Kappa Alpha Housing Corporatio$290,881485%
Oak Service Corporation$200,82652%
Gamma Theta Incorporated$183,410124%
Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity$139,604311%
Gamma Chi Alumni of Pi Kappa Alpha Corporation$139,124626%
HistoryIT Inc$100,8604n/a
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All grantees of Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity$2,953,9832n/a
Pike University Inc$969,868851%
Beta Mu Building Company$690,803368%
Pi Kappa Alpha Union$424,0121n/a
Theta Omicron of Pi Kappa Alpha Housing Corporatio$290,881485%
Oak Service Corporation$200,82652%
Gamma Theta Incorporated$183,410124%
Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity$139,604311%
Gamma Chi Alumni of Pi Kappa Alpha Corporation$139,124626%
HistoryIT Inc$100,8604n/a
Alpha Eta House Corporation$80,68817%
Alpha Eta House Corporation of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity$58,432411%
Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity Epsilon Epsilon Chapter$11,7631n/a
Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc$10,00010%
East Tennessee State University Foundation$9,90010%
Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity$7,65217%
Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity$6,84714%
Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity$5,66811%
Epsilon Gamma Lodge Corporation$5,3201n/a
Delta Kappa Chapter$5,2171n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPike University Inc: $969,868 over 8y, 51% of budgetBeta Mu Building Company: $690,803 over 3y, 68% of budgetTheta Omicron of Pi Kappa Alpha Housing Corporatio: $290,881 over 4y, 85% of budgetOak Service Corporation: $200,826 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetGamma Theta Incorporated: $183,410 over 1y, 24% of budgetPi Kappa Alpha Fraternity: $139,604 over 3y, 11% of budgetGamma Chi Alumni of Pi Kappa Alpha Corporation: $139,124 over 6y, 26% of budgetAlpha Eta House Corporation: $80,688 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetAlpha Eta House Corporation of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity: $58,432 over 4y, 11% of budgetThomas Jefferson Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast Tennessee State University Foundation: $9,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPi Kappa Alpha Fraternity: $7,652 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetPi Kappa Alpha Fraternity: $6,847 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPi Kappa Alpha Fraternity: $5,668 over 1y, 0.9% 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 14.

Compare Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pi Kappa Alpha 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 Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation

How much does Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation give?
Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation reported 11 itemized grants totaling $1,467,358, out of $1,751,857 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (98%), Arts & Culture (2%), Membership Benefit (0%).
Who are Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity ($3.0M), Pike University Inc ($970k), Beta Mu Building Company ($691k).
Does Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation based?
Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation is based in TN.

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 20 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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