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BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY

BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,968,288 to it, the largest being Beta Theta Pi Foundation ($9,515,092). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$7.5M
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$10.0M
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.6M) Expenses 100 ($6.2M) Net assets 100 ($6.2M)2018 Revenue 110 ($7.3M) Expenses 109 ($6.7M) Net assets 107 ($6.6M)2019 Revenue 103 ($6.9M) Expenses 126 ($7.8M) Net assets 87 ($5.4M)2020 Revenue 102 ($6.8M) Expenses 96 ($5.9M) Net assets 97 ($6.0M)2021 Revenue 74 ($4.9M) Expenses 75 ($4.6M) Net assets 120 ($7.4M)2022 Revenue 95 ($6.3M) Expenses 103 ($6.3M) Net assets 113 ($7.0M)2023 Revenue 96 ($6.4M) Expenses 123 ($7.6M) Net assets 18 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 112 ($7.5M) Expenses 108 ($6.7M) Net assets 31 ($1.9M)2025 Revenue 113 ($7.5M) Expenses 116 ($7.1M) Net assets 35 ($2.2M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (113)Expenses (116)Net assets (35)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$463k
17
$587k
18
$900k
19
$819k
20
$309k
21
$80k
22
$1.2M
23
$792k
24
$341k
25
3.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $814k → $1.3M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2

From the IRS filings of BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

100% of BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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18
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20
21
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23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ohio

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • 930 Lem Morrison Drive Auburn · exempt
  • Baird Fund Corporation · exempt
  • Beta Theta Pi Foundation · exempt
  • Beta Theta Pi General Fraternity House Corporation · exempt
  • Staff Properties Oxford · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY?
BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,968,288 to it, the largest being Beta Theta Pi Foundation ($9,515,092). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $9,968,288 in grants to BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY?
Beta Theta Pi Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $9,515,092 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing