California · Nonprofit
ZETA BETA LAMBDA FOUNDATION
ZETA BETA LAMBDA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $89k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $37k
What Zeta Beta Lambda Foundation does
Mission
The core mission of the ZBL Foundation is to engage in charitable and humanitarian efforts by providing financial support to deserving students. Through raising donation funds and distribution funds the foundation aims to empower these individuals to reach there full potential fostering social economic and intellectual growth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Annual fundraisers to award scholarships to minority college-bound high school seniors for college and educational grants.
$14,000 spent16% of program spendingOrganization Scholarship annuity initialization
$26,532 spent30% of program spendingFundraiser venue costs for annual Golf Tournament and annual Scholarship presentation event.
$47,449 spent54% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $87,981.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $37k to $46k (+25%).
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.
70% of ZETA BETA LAMBDA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ZETA BETA LAMBDA FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of ZETA BETA LAMBDA FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
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.
Against its field
ZETA BETA LAMBDA FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ZETA BETA LAMBDA 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ZETA BETA LAMBDA 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 ZETA BETA LAMBDA FOUNDATION?
- ZETA BETA LAMBDA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ZETA BETA LAMBDA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to ZETA BETA LAMBDA FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of ZETA BETA LAMBDA FOUNDATION?
- SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ZETA BETA LAMBDA FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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