Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
862141725
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Rating confidence
Limited

Reported finances

Revenue
$168,440
Expenses
$171,993
Assets
$15,025

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Deven V Mehta (President)

People named in this filing

  • Deven V Mehta (President)
  • Miles B Burrello (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

We the brothers of Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity believe that the development of the individual as a responsible mature member of society is the primary goal of the university today. We believe that fraternity offers to the university community a unique desirable and successful means of achieving this goal. In fulfilling the purposes of fraternity we dedicate ourselves to the principles of: Intellectual Awareness Social Responsibility Integrity and Brotherly Love. Intellectual Awareness Fraternity creates an atmosphere conducive to the expansion of the individuals intellectual horizons the interchange of ideas within the academic community and the pursuit of scholastic excellence. Social Responsibility Fraternity requires the individual to commit himself and accept his responsibility to participate. Integrity Fraternity generates a standard of personal integrity a framework for the individual to maintain honesty exhibit loyalty and retain a sense of self-discipline. Broth

What it reported doing in 2025

Big Sur community service project beach cleanup other volunteer opportunities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • 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: -2.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 11; 11th 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: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.