Indiana · Nonprofit
Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation
Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation (Indiana) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,469,185 to it, the largest being Oklahoma State University Foundation ($1,050,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation does
Mission
To invest in the ever-growing educational pursuits of Lambda Chi Alpha, enabling its transformation into the premier men's service learning and leadership development organization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity Grant $2,325,752 - Grant investments for values-based programs and research - leadership training, interpersonal development, competency-based learning, and credentialing.- Scholarships and Fellowships $171,272 - Undergraduate and graduate school scholarships based on need, academic merit, and community leadership, and furthering the educational endeavors of the recipient. Chapter educational housing grants $695,101 - Grants for eligible educational programming, facilities, equipment, and materials for the undergraduate members The foundation conducts feasibility studies on behalf of Lambda Chi Alpha campus fraternity houses to provide guidance for developing a fundraising campaign in order for the house to raise funds which will be used for educational purposes.
$3,268,748 spentof which $3,192,125 as grants$65,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,268,748.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $21M to $28M (+33%).
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: 2021 2% · 2022 8% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Dan Hartmann
President & CEO
Board chair
Bo L Gebbie
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $301k → $532k.
19 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $287k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. 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
Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 65% · 2019 43% · 2020 82% · 2021 33% · 2022 35% · 2023 27% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
50% of Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.7M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Indiana, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 states 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.
Against its field
Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 50 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation: 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 Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation?
- Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation (Indiana) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,469,185 to it, the largest being Oklahoma State University Foundation ($1,050,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $3,469,185 in grants to Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation?
- Oklahoma State University Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 52 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing