Oklahoma · Nonprofit
MU ALPHA THETA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
MU ALPHA THETA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,268 to it, the largest being BRUCK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $560k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $429k
What Mu Alpha Theta Educational Foundation Inc does
Mission
The organization supports its members, sponsors, and chapters with scholarships, awards, and grants. Each summer, the foundation holds a national convention during which members spend four days competing for the highest scores on math tests, practicing their public speaking and teaching skills via math "chalk talks," attending math speaker sessions, networking with other members and mathematicians, and taking a field trip to a local attraction.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Annual convention - typically, every july, around 700 mu alpha theta members, sponsors, and chaperones meet for five days to participate in three rounds of mathematics topic tests including: analytic geometry, limits/derivatives, statistics, number theory, and many others. Students take individual tests over multiple math topics. There are team math contests, speed and mental math tests, and a math-themed poster design contest. Some students prepare a math "chalk talk" to present to an audience on a selected math topic. Students attend speaker sessions presented by mathematicians. The national convention allows students who love math to interact with like-minded peers. Many of the particpants at the national convention continue to study mathematics in college due to an enjoyment of math fostered in part by participating in mu alpha theta competitions, including the national convention.
$402,929 spent$353,578 earned by the program55% of program spendingSupport the national high school & two-year college mathematics honor societys mission - the mu alpha theta educational foundation helped to further the goals of mu alpha theta by funding grants, awards, and scholarships to its members, sponsors (teachers), and chapters. These grants, awards, and scholarships relieved some of the financial burden of attending college for members, helped new teachers purchase math supplies for their classrooms so they could confer the enjoyment of mathematics on their students, and funded recognition awards to superior sponsors and their schools. Additionally, the foundation's funds were used to purchase honor cords, stoles, and tassels that in turn generate income for the foundation and support its administrative costs. Supplies that were donated to the foundation were provided to mu alpha theta chapters and members.
$167,286 spent23% of program spendingScholarships, grants, awards & prizes - academic scholarships - the educational foundation awarded 28 scholarships to outstanding mu alpha theta graduating seniors in 2025. Scholarships were awarded to active members who were judged to be outstanding mathematics students and who have shown loyalty and enthusiastic dedication to their mu alpha theta chapters with evidence of community service in mathematics. The top awardees received 5,000 scholarships. All other recipients received 4,000 scholarships. Scholarships were paid directly to the students' colleges to help pay for tuition and fees or were awarded as cash stipends to the students. Awards - the educational foundation gave awards to outstanding chapters, sponsors, and students. One sponsor was awarded a 1,000 cash award for their exemplary service. One award of 2,500 was presented to a member who is studying to become a mathematics educator. Two teachers in their first two years of teaching were awarded a total of 1,200 to advance their teaching.
$162,498 spentof which $162,498 as grants22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $732,713.
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 2023 to 2024, from $284k to $429k (+51%).
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.
35% of MU ALPHA THETA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $54.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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: $635k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mu Alpha Theta Natl High School & Two-Year College Mathematics Honor). These are real filings, and they are not money MU ALPHA THETA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MU ALPHA THETA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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
MU ALPHA THETA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 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. 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
MU ALPHA THETA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $268 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.
Against its field
MU ALPHA THETA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MU ALPHA THETA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Mu Alpha Theta Math Honor Society · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MU ALPHA THETA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC?
- MU ALPHA THETA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,268 to it, the largest being BRUCK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MU ALPHA THETA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,268 in grants to MU ALPHA THETA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MU ALPHA THETA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC?
- BRUCK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MU ALPHA THETA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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