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Chi Omega Foundation

The CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION supports educational & leadership development through scholarships, grants and other learning opportunities.

$4.0M
Granted FY2026still arriving
9
Grants FY2026still arriving
8
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$9.4MMembership Benefit$7.6MEducation$760
02FY2026 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $3,383,161, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,950,116 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $566,955 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2026

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.2M
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$75M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHI BETA OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY INC$1,945,933
CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY$861,847
EPSILON BETA OF CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC$427,366
TAU OF CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY HOUSE CORPORATION$72,564
FOUNDATION FOR FRATERNAL EXCELLENCE INC$25,000
LUBBOCK CHI OMEGA EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION$14,537
NU CHAPTER HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF CHI OMEGA INC$12,512
NU KAPPA CHAPTER OF CHI OMEGA HOUSE CORPORATION$12,512
THE BUILDING ASSOCIATION OF THE EPSILON ALPHA CHAPTER OF CHI OMEGA$10,890
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SIGMA BETA BUILDING ASSOCIATION OF CHI OMEGA: $21k → 10%CHI OMEGA ASSOCIATION- MU CHAPTER: $28k → 10%ALPHA ZETA HOUSING CORPORATION: $47k → 10%ALUMNAE OF TAU BETA CHAPTER OF CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY: $2.0M → 19%CHI OMEGA PSI CHAPTER CORPORATION: $838k → 14%THE NU BETA CHAPTER OF THE CHI OMEGA HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $147k → 17%CHI OMEGA HOLDING ASSOCIATION INC: $85k → 20%RHO ALPHA OF CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY: $116k → 17%NU CHAPTER HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF CHI OMEGA INC: $217k → 10%CHI OMEGA BUILDING ASSOCIATION- ETA ALPHA: $70k → 8%CHATTANOOGA CHI OMEGA ALUMNAE HOUSE CORPORATION: $344k → 12%CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY: $862k → 17%EPSILON BETA OF CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC: $1.3M → 13%NU KAPPA HOUSE CORPORATION: $92k → 24%FOUNDATION FOR FRATERNAL EXCELLENCE INC: $25k → 5%TAU OF CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY HOUSE CORPORATION: $784k → 18%PHI DELTA HOUSE CORPORATION: $158k → 24%ALUMNAE OF TAU BETA CHAPTER OF CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY: $1.5M → 19%CHI OMEGA PSI CHAPTER CORPORATION: $566k → 14%CHI OMEGA HOLDING ASSOCIATION INC KAPPA ALPHA: $20k → 20%RHO ALPHA OF CHI OMEGA: $37k → 17%NU CHAPTER HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF CHI OMEGA INC: $123k → 10%CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY: $850k → 17%EPSILON BETA OF CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC: $427k → 13%TAU OF CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY HOUSE CORPORATION: $313k → 18%PHI DELTA HOUSE CORPORATION: $53k → 24%ALUMNAE OF TAU BETA CHAPTER OF CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY: $347k → 19%CHI OMEGA PSI CHAPTER CORPORATION: $307k → 14%NU CHAPTER HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF CHI OMEGA INC: $122k → 10%CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY: $775k → 17%TAU OF CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY HOUSE CORPORATION: $246k → 18%PHI DELTA HOUSE CORPORATION: $34k → 24%CHI OMEGA PSI CHAPTER CORPORATION: $145k → 14%NU CHAPTER HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF CHI OMEGA INC: $106k → 10%CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY: $768k → 17%TAU OF CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY HOUSE CORPORATION: $143k → 18%CHI OMEGA PSI CHAPTER CORPORATION: $104k → 14%NU CHAPTER HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF CHI OMEGA INC: $54k → 10%CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY: $740k → 17%TAU OF CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY HOUSE CORPORATION: $73k → 18%CHI OMEGA PSI CHAPTER CORPORATION: $90k → 14%CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY: $643k → 17%CHI OMEGA PSI CHAPTER CORPORATION: $75k → 14%CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY: $500k → 17%CHI OMEGA PSI CHAPTER CORPORATION: $137k → 14%CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY: $469k → 17%CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY: $326k → 17%CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY: $314k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
WI
OR
CA
MO
WV
KS
AR
TN
NC
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 16 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2026, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
8

Total granted

$18M
$480k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+0%

Still filing today

81%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CO
    Chi Omega Fraternity
    10× · 2017–2026 · $6.2M · revenue +61%
  • CO
    CHI OMEGA PSI CHAPTER CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +47%
  • TO
    Tau of Chi Omega Fraternity House Corp
    5× · 2022–2026 · $1.6M · revenue +24% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NU BETA CHAPTER OF THE CHI OMEGA HOUSE ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $147k · revenue +62%
  • RA
    RHO ALPHA OF CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY
    one grant, 2017 · $116k
  • KZ
    KAPPA ZETA CHAPTER OF CHI OMEGA CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $85k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Georgia Tech Chapter of Delta Chi Fraternity Housing Corporation

Chapter housing leased to members to provide an environment for study, sleep, hygiene, meals and fellowship, suitable for the development of men attending the institute for education.

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2
Sigma Omicron Housing Association

Maintain a college fraternity chapter house

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3
Phi Eta House Corp of Delta Delta Delta Sorority

To provide guidance and shelter to members

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4
Phi Kappa Psi - Oregon Alpha Chapter S&T Fraternity Management

Housing for college fraternity

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5
Alpha Kappa of Alpha Chi Omega Alumni Holding Association

Collegiate sorority housing

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6
Alpha Chi Omega Home Inc

To provide rental housing to a social chapter of a sorority for 80 - 85 members a year

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7
Alpha Chi Omega House Corporation for Beta Epsilon Chapter

The AXO House Corp provides sorority housing to the members of the Beta Epslon Chapter of AXO

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8
Sigma Tau of Kappa Delta Housing Associa

Provide Chapter House for Students

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9
Chi Omega Sorority -- Beta Beta Chapter

Sorority House Operations

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10
Alpha Chi Omega Psi Chapter House Corporation

Provides sorority housing and an environment for collegiate chapter promotion of social interaction among alumnae and undergraduate members of the sorority

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11
Alpha Alpha Delta of Chi Psi Lodge Assoc Inc

To own and maintain a housing facility for chi psi fraternity members at the university of georgia.

Education
12
Delta Gamma Chapter Association

Hold real property used by undergraduate chapter of nationally chartered social fraternity.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chi Omega Psi Chapter Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Chi Omega Sorority. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Chi Omega Fraternity: $6,246,056 · OtherChi Omega FraternityALUMNAE OF TAU BETA CHAPTER OF CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY: $3,882,749 · OtherALUMNAE OF TAU BETA CHAPTER OF CHI OMEGA FRATERNITYCHI OMEGA PSI CHAPTER CORPORATION: $2,262,659 · OtherCHI OMEGA PSI CHAPTER CORPORATIONEPSILON BETA OF CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION: $1,701,732 · OtherEPSILON BETA OF CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION+19 more: $2,780,133 · Other+19 moreCHI OMEGA OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY INC CHI OMEGA OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY INC: $1,945,933 · EducationCHI OMEGA OF PURDUE…Tau of Chi Omega Fraternity House Corp: $1,559,519 · EducationTau of Chi Omega Fr…+2 more: $21,878 · Education
Other$16,873,329Education$3,527,330

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChi Omega Fraternity: $6,246,056 over 10y, 8.2% of budgetALUMNAE OF TAU BETA CHAPTER OF CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY: $3,882,749 over 4y, 100% of budgetCHI OMEGA PSI CHAPTER CORPORATION: $2,262,659 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetEPSILON BETA OF CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION: $1,701,732 over 2y, 55% of budgetTau of Chi Omega Fraternity House Corp: $1,559,519 over 5y, 28% of budgetCHATTANOOGA CHI OMEGA ALUMNAE HOUSE CORPORATION: $358,667 over 2y, 66% of budgetPHI DELTA HOUSE CORPORATION: $254,917 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetCHI OMEGA FRATERNITY NU CHAPTER: $187,958 over 4y, 29% of budgetBUILDING ASSOCIATION EPSILON ALPHA OF CHI OMEGA FR: $156,583 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetTHE NU BETA CHAPTER OF THE CHI OMEGA HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $146,855 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCHI OMEGA HOLDING ASSOCIATION INC: $117,419 over 3y, 15% of budgetCHI OMEGA BUILDING ASSOCIATION: $70,319 over 1y, 16% of budgetALPHA ZETA HOUSE CORPORATION: $55,188 over 2y, 32% of budgetRHO ALPHA OF CHI OMEGA INC: $36,852 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCHI OMEGA ASSOCIATION: $32,953 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSIGMA BETA CHAPTER BLDG ASSOC OF CHI OMEGA: $21,118 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE CHI OMEGA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF EMPORIA INC: $760 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chi Omega Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chi Omega Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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