· Public charity
Delta Gamma Foundation
The DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION fosters lifetime enrichment for members, promotes service for sight, and partners with the fraternity to ensure the future of our sisterhood.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 47 grants below total $1,163,462 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,329,433 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,165,971 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $153k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $276k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $734k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLIND CHILDREN'S CENTER | $146,435 |
| FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN | $119,389 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $115,029 |
| DELTA GAMMA CENTER FOR CHILDREN WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS | $106,249 |
| ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN | $100,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $95,245 |
| GALLANT HEARTS GUIDE DOG CENTER | $51,315 |
| FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS | $25,000 |
| RETINA FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST | $25,000 |
| HADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND | $17,500 |
| SIGHT SAVERS AMERICA | $17,000 |
| LOUISIANA SCHOOL FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $14,892 |
| SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS (DNU - SEE DOGS INC) | $13,267 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL FOR DEAF AND BLIND | $13,079 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DGDELTA GAMMA FRATERNITY6× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +26%
- APAlpha Psi House Corporation of Delta Gamma Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $897k · revenue +48%
- TBThe Blind Childrens Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $513k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- GTGAMMA THETA HOUSING CORPORATIONone grant, 2019 · $889k
- MHMu House Corporation of Delta Gammaone grant, 2018 · $804k · revenue +15%
- DGDelta Gamma Sorority Associationone grant, 2017 · $139k · revenue -3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide innovative training and tools for people who are blind or visually impaired to help them achieve their goals and dreams
To improve occupational opportunity and public perception of legally blind arkansans through community engagement, work skills enhancement and the production of quality goods and services.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
Vista Center enables individuals who are blind or visually impaired to achieve their highest potential through evaluation, counseling, education and training which promotes independence and improves quality of life.
To acquire and breed puppies that are suitable to be trained and developed as guide dogs. The Mission of Eye Dog Foundation for the Blind is to acquire and breed puppies that are suitable to be trained and developed as guide dogs. Once the…
Arvo advances research worldwide into understanding the visual system and preventing, treating and curing its disorders.
BLIND, Inc. was founded by blind Minnesotans who believe that, given the proper training and opportunity, blind people can lead normal, independent, and fulfilled lives. We believe that blindness is respectable and that with proper…
To empower people with disabilities through employment, services and advocacy.
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The Blind Foundation for India(BFI)Charter is to prevent and cure blindness and rehabilitate permanently blind people in India. BFI provides support for free cataract operations, Braille kits, Mobile Vans, Eye Hospital equipments, and…
Empowering people who are blind or visually impaired with lifelong skills for safe and independent daily travel.
Lighthouse for the blind of the palm beaches, inc's mission is to assist persons with visual impairments to develop their capabilities to the fullest and to utilize them in the pursuits of life which are the right and privilege of all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Society for the Blind and the most unlike its peers is Lsu Research Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 125 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA FRATERNITY ↗
- Who funds Alpha Psi House Corporation of Delta Gamma Inc ↗
- Who funds Mu House Corporation of Delta Gamma ↗
- Who funds The Blind Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAI ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Epsilon House Corporation of Delta Gamma ↗
- Who funds Delta Gamma Center for Children with Vis ↗
- Who funds GALLANT HEARTS GUIDE DOG CENTER ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Alpha Upsilon Housing Corporation of Delta Gamma ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds Beta Omega House Corporation of Delta Gamma Frater ↗
- Who funds Delta Gamma Sorority Association ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Gamma Xi House Corporation of Delta Gamma Inc ↗
- Who funds SEEDLINGS BRAILLE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Delta Iota Chapter House Corporation of Delta Gamm ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Alpha Pi Building Corporation ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND FOUND ↗
- Who funds Eta Gamma House Corporation of Delta Gamma Fratern ↗
- Who funds DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds Eta Kappa House Corporation of Delta Gamma Fratern ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR SIGHT ↗
- Who funds US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds New Eyes for the Needy Inc ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Gibney Family Foundation Inc · Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation · National Industries for the Blind · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Sarah Decoizart Perpetual Charitable Tr · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · 20 20 Quest · Consumer Technology Association Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The William Stamps Farish Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Delta Gamma Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Dean Mcgee Eye Institute — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- National Braille Press Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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