Maryland · Nonprofit
ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC
ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $761,097 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($300,002). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $761k
- Net assets
- $26M
What Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc does
Mission
The fraternity goal is to provide assistance to the community in efforts to achieve better social and economic status through the principles of the scholarship, fellowship, good character, and the uplifting of humanity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Membership services: including assistance to the community in efforts to achieve better social and economic status through the principles of scholarship, fellowship, good character, and the uplifting of humanity.
$2,379,169 spent$10,908,844 earned by the program53% of program spendingNational and special programs including brother's keeper, formally called the a. Charles haston brother's keeper program. This service program developed with the mission of advocating and improving the quality of life for alpha phi alpha fraternity, inc. Brothers, their spouses, and widows who are retired, are elders, have disabilities, and are ailing. "a voteless people is a hopeless people" - (aka vphp) was initiated as a national program of alpha during the 1930's when many african-americans had the right to vote but were prevented from voting because of poll taxes, threats of reprisal, and lack of education about the voting process. Voter education and registration have remained a dominant focus of this outreach activity for over 65 years. In the 1990's, the focus has shifted to include political awareness and empowerment, delivered most frequently through town meetings and candidate forums.
$2,080,348 spent$1,552,988 earned by the program47% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,459,517.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $36M to $56M (+55%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Sean L Mccaskill
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $100k → $124k.
1 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 84% · 2019 75% · 2020 91% · 2021 45% · 2022 54% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
14% of ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Alpha Phi Alpha Education Foundation · exempt
- Alpha Phi Alpha Building Foundation · exempt
- Alpha Phi Alpha Jewels Heritage Project · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC?
- ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $761,097 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($300,002). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $761,097 in grants to ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,002 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing