Indiana · Nonprofit
ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION
ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION (Indiana) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $850,460 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($117,250). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $850k
- Net assets
- $33M
What Zeta Tau Alpha Foundation does
Mission
Zeta Tau Alpha Foundation, inc. Is organized to conduct fundraising for educational and charitable projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Zeta Tau Alpha Foundation, inc. Helps to support and educate the public on the following: -health and safety issues such as drinking responsibly, sexual assault prevention, mental well-being and hazing prevention.-leadership development including communication skill, financial management, academic achievement, interpersonal skills and problem-solving skills.-breast cancer education and awareness with a significant emphasis on breast cancer research.
$2,480,188 spentof which $1,904,753 as grants$1,167 earned by the program62% of program spendingZeta Tau Alpha Foundation, inc. Provides scholarships to qualified college students. In fiscal year 2025, the program serviced 459 students.
$1,524,704 spentof which $1,404,344 as grants38% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,004,892.
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 2020 to 2021, from $22M to $27M (+21%).
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.
85% of ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Meghan Vicinus Parker
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $50k → $126k.
16 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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: $3.5M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Zeta Tau Alpha Fraternity Group Return). These are real filings, and they are not money ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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
ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
75% 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 ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 30% · 2019 28% · 2020 32% · 2021 32% · 2022 21% · 2023 40% — 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
23% of ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
60% of ZETA TAU ALPHA 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 $339k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Indiana, across 27 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $512k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ZETA TAU ALPHA 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
83% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ZETA TAU ALPHA 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 TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION?
- ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION (Indiana) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $850,460 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($117,250). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $850,460 in grants to ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $117,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ZETA TAU ALPHA 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 86 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