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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 FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$429k
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$6.2MArts & Culture$111kMembership Benefit$12k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $1,467,358, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,751,857 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $284,499 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 · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $314k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$58,432
Median grant
8
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PIKE University$429,257
Pi Kappa Alpha Union$424,012
Theta Omicron on PKA Housing$257,924
Gamma Chi Alumni of Pi Kappa Alpha Corporation$111,103
Oak Service Corporation$89,850
Alpha Eta House corporation$58,432
LSU House Corporation$54,132
Gamma Chi Alumni Association$20,000
Epsilon Epsilon Chapter$11,763
Alpha Eta Chapter$5,668
Delta Kappa Chapter$5,217
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 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Gamma Chi Alumni of Pi Kappa Alpha Corporation: $92k → 11%BETA MU BUILDING COMPANY INC: $691k → 10%GAMMA CHI ALUMNI CHAPTER OF PI KAPPA ALPHA: $2.8M → 16%Gamma Chi Alumni of Pi Kappa Alpha Corporation: $111k → 19%Alpha Eta House corporation: $58k → 19%Pi Kappa Alpha Union: $424k → 17%East Tennessee State University: $10k → 14%PIKE University: $429k → 17%Gamma Phi Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha: $7k → 15%Theta Omicron on PKA Housing: $258k → 19%Epsilon Epsilon Chapter: $12k → 18%GAMMA THETA HOUSE CORPORTAION INC: $183k → 24%THE THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%Epsilon Epsilon Chapter: $8k → 21%LSU House Corporation: $54k → 19%HISTORY IT: $101k → 7%GAMMA CHI ALUMNI OF PI KAPPA ALPHA CORPORATION: $47k → 11%Gamma Chi Alumni Association: $20k → 19%Alpha Eta Chapter: $6k → 19%Oak Service Corporation: $101k → 17%Alpha Gamma House corporation: $85k → 19%Oak Service Corporation: $90k → 17%PIKE UNIVERSITY: $55k → 17%PIKE University: $371k → 17%OAK SERVICE CORP: $10k → 17%PIKE UNIVERSITY: $115k → 17%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

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 6 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$4.7M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+27%

Still filing today

83%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $505k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’23’24
EducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • PU
    Pike University Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $970k · revenue +10% · 51% of their budget
  • TO
    THETA OMICRON OF PI KAPPA ALPHA HOUSING CORPORATIO
    4× · 2018–2024 · $291k · revenue +60% · 85% of their budget
  • OS
    Oak Service Corporation
    5× · 2019–2024 · $201k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • BM
    BETA MU BUILDING COMPANY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $691k · revenue -43% · 68% of their budget
  • GT
    GAMMA THETA INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $183k · revenue +7%
  • HI
    HistoryIT Inc
    4× · 2019–2022 · $101k
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 Sigma Kappa

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

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4
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity

Non-profit fraternal organization

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5
Epsilon Psi House Corporation

Provide housing and meeting place for members

Education
6
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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7
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity

Washington alpha chapter of phi kappa psi provides an environment for education, growth, and personal development of undergraduate brothers during college and throughout life.

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8
Missouri Alpha of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternal Corporation

To provide and manage the fraternity house for university students.

Education
9
Phi Eta House Corp of Delta Delta Delta Sorority

To provide guidance and shelter to members

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10
Phi Delta Theta Alumni Associa

Fraternity organization providing meeting space chapter activities and lodging

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11
Alpha Pi Building Corporation

Provide a suitable social environment for collegiate members.

Recreation & Sports
12
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity

Provide meals and housing for students while at depauw university

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pi Kappa Alpha Union; the most unlike its peers is Oak Service Corporation. 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

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PI KAPPA ALPHA FRATERNITY: $2,953,983 · OtherPI KAPPA ALPHA FRATERNITYBETA MU BUILDING COMPANY: $690,803 · OtherBETA MU BUILDING COMPANYPI KAPPA ALPHA UNION: $424,012 · OtherPI KAPPA ALPHA UNIONTHETA OMICRON OF PI KAPPA ALPHA HOUSING CORPORATIO: $290,881 · OtherTHETA OMICRON OF PI KAPPA ALPHA HOUSING CORPORATIOGAMMA THETA INCORPORATED: $183,410 · Other+10 more: $422,051 · Other+10 morePike University Inc: $969,868 · EducationPike University IncOak Service Corporation: $200,826 · EducationOak Service CorporationGAMMA CHI ALUMNI OF PI KAPPA ALPHA CORPORATION: $139,124 · EducationGAMMA CHI ALUMNI OF PI …+1 more: $9,900 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$4,965,140Education$1,319,718Arts & Culture$10,000

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 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
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 Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%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
    3get 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 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.

    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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