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· Public charity

Theta XI Foundation

To provide educational programming and scholarship assistance to the undergratuate members of theta xi fraternity.

$357k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$90k
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$2.3MRecreation & Sports$836kMembership Benefit$351kCommunity Improvement$190kHousing & Shelter$76k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $251,122, the rows itemized in this filing. The $356,781 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $105,659 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

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $221k
$55,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALPHA PSI ASSOCIATION OF THETA XI$90,000
MU ASSOCIATION$76,201
THETA XI FRATERNITY$55,000
BETA EPSILON CHAPTER$17,031
BETA ALPHA ASSOCIATION OF THETA XI$12,890
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 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALPHA ZETA ASSOCIATION OF THETA XI: $319k → 14%BETA ALPHA ASSOCIATION OF THETA XI: $13k → 14%MU ASSOCIATION: $76k → 10%ALPHA IOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THETA XI INC: $190k → 7%Theta Xi Fraternity Alpha Iota Chapter: $320k → 20%ALPHA PSI ASSOCIATION OF THETA XI: $90k → 9%Theta Xi Fraternity: $45k → 11%Theta Xi Fraternity Alpha Psi Chapter: $267k → 16%Theta Xi Fraternity Beta Alpha Chapter: $185k → 13%Theta Xi Fraternity Alpha Zeta Chapter: $318k → 14%Theta Xi Fraternity Alpha Iota Chapter: $276k → 20%Theta Xi Fraternity: $11k → 11%Theta Xi Fraternity Alpha Psi Chapter: $105k → 16%THETA XI FRATERNITY BETA ALPHA CHAPTER: $101k → 13%Theta Xi Fraternity Alpha Zeta Chapter: $21k → 14%Theta Xi Fraternity Alpha Iota Chapter: $137k → 20%Theta Xi Fraternity 109 Iota Chapter: $7k → 11%Theta Xi Fraternity Alpha Psi Chapter: $44k → 16%Theta Xi Fraternity Beta Alpha Chapter: $82k → 13%Theta Xi Fraternity Alpha Zeta Chapter: $12k → 14%THETA XI FRATERNITY ALPHA PSI CHAPTER: $39k → 16%THETA XI FRATERNITY: $72k → 13%Theta Xi Fraternity Alpha Psi Chapter: $34k → 16%THETA XI FRATERNITY: $55k → 13%THETA XI FRATERNITY ALPHA PSI CHAPTER: $27k → 16%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 7 repeat orgs$605k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against -36% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$3.2M
$516k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
-36%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TX
    THETA XI FRATERNITY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $732k · revenue +2% · 75% of their budget
  • AP
    ALPHA PSI CHAPTER OF THETA XI FRATERNITY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $607k · revenue +187% · 38% of their budget
  • TX
    THETA XI FRATERNITY 149 BETA ALPHA CHAPTER
    3× · 2020–2022 · $368k · revenue +415% · 94% of their budget

Funded once

  • AZ
    Alpha Zeta Association of Theta Xi
    one grant, 2023 · $319k · revenue -49% · 66% of their budget
  • AI
    ALPHA IOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THETA XI INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $190k · revenue -36% · 49% of their budget
  • TX
    THETA XI FRATERNITY
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
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
Theta Xi Alumni Association

Providing room, board and fellowship to members of college fraternity

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2
Phi Kappa Psi - Oregon Alpha Chapter S&T Fraternity Management

Housing for college fraternity

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3
Phi Delta Theta Alumni Associa

Fraternity organization providing meeting space chapter activities and lodging

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4
Alumni Association of the Nu Delta Chapter of Phi Mu Delta Fraternity

Provide room and board to undergraduate members attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston area schools

Education
5
Gamma Theta Incorporated

Provide housing for undergraduate chapter of national collegiate fraternity and facilitate between alumni and undergraduate members.

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6
Theta Xi Fraternity (Delta Chapter Mit)

Provide services and education to members of theta xi fraternity.

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7
Alumni Association of Beta Pi Inc

The purpose of theta xi is to provide a college home environment for its active members in which fellowship and alumni guidance lead to wholesome mental, moral, physical, and spiritual growth. to that end theta xi actively supports and…

Education
8
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
9
Alpha Xi Chapter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity

Provide dormitory facilities to college students

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10
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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11
Theta Chi Fraternity

Fraternal living that offers affordable housing and meal plans, philanthropic activities, and academic mentorship, standards and support.

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12
Sigma Nu - Theta Chapter Alumni Assoc

Provide housing and support for undergraduate chapter of national collegiate social fraternity and provide opportunity for social interaction between the alumni and undergraduate members of this fraternity.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Theta Xi Fraternity 149 Beta Alpha Chapter; the most unlike its peers is Mu Association. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THETA XI FRATERNITY: $732,047 · OtherTHETA XI FRATERNITYTHETA XI FRATERNITY 149 BETA ALPHA CHAPTER: $368,125 · OtherTHETA XI FRATERNITY 149 BETA ALPHA CHAPTERTheta Xi - Alpha Zeta Chapter: $350,594 · OtherTheta Xi - Alpha Zeta ChapterTHETA XI FRATERNITY: $126,935 · OtherTHETA XI FRATERNITYMU ASSOCIATION: $76,201 · Other+3 more: $75,754 · OtherALPHA PSI CHAPTER OF THETA XI FRATERNITY: $606,639 · Recreation & SportsALPHA PSI CHAPTER OF THETA …Alpha Zeta Association of Theta Xi: $319,238 · Recreation & SportsAlpha Zeta Association of T…BETA EPSILON ASSOCIATION THETA XI: $914,240 · EducationBETA EPSILON ASSOCIATION TH…ALPHA IOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THETA XI INC: $189,552 · Community Improvement
Other$1,729,656Recreation & Sports$925,877Education$914,240Community Improvement$189,552

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 budgetBETA EPSILON ASSOCIATION THETA XI: $914,240 over 3y, 60% of budgetTHETA XI FRATERNITY: $732,047 over 3y, 75% of budgetALPHA PSI CHAPTER OF THETA XI FRATERNITY: $606,639 over 7y, 38% of budgetTHETA XI FRATERNITY 149 BETA ALPHA CHAPTER: $368,125 over 3y, 94% of budgetTheta Xi - Alpha Zeta Chapter: $350,594 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetAlpha Zeta Association of Theta Xi: $319,238 over 1y, 66% of budgetALPHA IOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THETA XI INC: $189,552 over 2y, 49% of budgetTHETA XI FRATERNITY: $126,935 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetMU ASSOCIATION: $76,201 over 1y, 48% 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 Theta XI Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Theta XI Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%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
    0get 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 Theta XI Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Theta XI 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 12 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $261k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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