Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521884129
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- College Park, MD, USA
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $144,152
- Expenses
- $135,664
- Assets
- $8,488
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Noah Zayon (President)
- Caden Unger (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Noah Zayon (President)
- Caden Unger (Vice President)
- Andrew Talpins (Finance Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Zeta beta tau fraternity is governed by a constitution and code. These governing documents outline the function of the fraternity and set the standards for brothers. The fraternity also has adopted supplementary policies that uphold the tenets of our mission credo and ritual.
What it reported doing in 2025
The chapter provided social fraternal leadership recruitment brotherhood and educational activities for its members during 2025. Activities included chapter meetings social and brotherhood events recruitment and new-member programming member transportation and other activities intended to promote fellowship and fraternity involvement among members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 22
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.2%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.9%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.9% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.2% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.