Maryland · Nonprofit
Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc
Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $507,251 to it, the largest being NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC ($464,751). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $507k
- Net assets
- $285k
What Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc does
Mission
The purpose of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. is to develop and perpetuate scholarship, leadership, citizenship, fidelity, and brotherhood among men to engage in cultural, educational, and service activities that will provide economic, scholastic, and social enrichment, particularly for people of color and to prepare the brotherhood of the Fraternity for future leadership and professional advancement opportunities through networking, training, and development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The development and perpetuation of Scholarship, Leadership, Citizenship, Fidelity, and Brotherhood among Men.
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 2024 to 2025, from $826k to $606k (−27%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Justin Ewing
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $136k.
From the IRS filings of Iota Phi Theta 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
Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
98% 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 Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 85% — 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.
Where its funders are
Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Iota Phi Theta 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Iota Phi Theta 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 Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc?
- Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $507,251 to it, the largest being NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC ($464,751). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $507,251 in grants to Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc?
- NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC is the largest funder on record, with $464,751 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Iota Phi Theta 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.
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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 3 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