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Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc

The brothers of phi beta sigma are the fraternity's most valuable resource and strength.

$235k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$238kMembership Benefit$195kCivil Rights$150kHealth$75kArts & Culture$60kPublic Benefit$25kYouth Development$25kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $102,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $235,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $132,500 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.

$22,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$25,000
SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC$25,000
NAACP$22,500
ZETA PHI BETA SORORITY INC$20,000
ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA EDUCATIONAL ADV FOUND INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 42% of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 46% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 14% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$150k · 3 repeat orgs$628k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
17

Total granted

$150k
$525k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-29%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCivil RightsHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther

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

  • NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue -41%
  • UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue -29%
  • TM
    Thurgood Marshall College Fund
    2× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue -10%

Funded once

  • IO
    IMPACT ONE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • NS
    National Sigma Beta Club
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -25%
  • PB
    PHI BETA SIGMA FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k

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

04Your field

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.

1
National Black Mba Association - Inc - Washington D C Chapter

Nonprofit membership association focused on educating and advancing Black MBAs and other Black members of the community

Community Improvement
2
Alpha Delta Pi Sorority

Social organization to promote academic achievement and leadership training of its members.

3
Omicron Lambda Chapter Alpha Phi Alpha Education Foundation
4
National Association of Black Accountants Inc

To address the professional needs of its members and to build leaders that shape the future of the accounting and finance profession with an unfaltering commitment to inspire the same in their successors.

5
Naba Foundation Inc

Our mission is to close the black wealth gap through education, earnings, entrepreneurship, enterprise and equity.

Education
6
Alpha Chi National College Honor Society

Alpha Chi National College Honor Society's mission is to recognize and promote academic excellence among college and university students and, by encouraging a spirit of service and leadership, to nurture those elements of character that…

7
Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity Inc

To better the man through the creation and perpetuation of brotherhood founded upon the values of character, silence, charity, honor,purity and patriotism.

8
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
9
Young Black Scholar Institute
Community Improvement
10
The African-American Educational and Cultural Festival Inc
Arts & Culture
11
Alpha Phi Alpha Education Foundation Inc

Alpha phi alpha education foundation, inc. ("education foundation") is the non-profit charitable arm of the fraternity, which focuses on scholarship, programs, and training and development of the membership.

12
Alpha Chi Omega Fraternity Inc

Alpha chi omega makes a promise to empower each member to become the best version of herself. the real. strong. women. experience delivers on this promise by providing an environment where members take on the issues and challenges that…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Foundation and the most unlike its peers is One Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
8/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IMPACT ONE FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherIMPACT ONE FOUNDATIONPHI BETA SIGMA FEDERAL CREDIT UNION — $50,000 · OtherPHI BETA SIGMA FEDERAL CREDIT UNIONSickle Cell Disease Association of America Inc — $25,000 · OtherSickle Cell Disease Association of Ameri…CWM CENTENNIAL GALA LLC — $25,000 · OtherCWM CENTENNIAL GALA LLCJOHN AND LILIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherJOHN AND LILIAN MILES LEWIS FOUNDATIONZETA PHI BETA SORORITY INC — $20,000 · OtherZETA PHI BETA SORORITY INCALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC — $15,000 · OtherALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INCBRIDGE CROSSING JUBILEE INC — $10,000 · OtherSIGMA GAMMA RHO SORORITY INC — $10,000 · OtherNational Sigma Beta Club — $50,000 · EducationNational Sigma Beta ClubUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $50,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INCThurgood Marshall College Fund — $50,000 · EducationThurgood Marshall College Fun…ZETA PHI BETA SORORITY NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EducationZETA PHI BETA SORORITY NATION…MISS RUBY'S KIDS — $20,000 · EducationMISS RUBY'S KIDSALPHA KAPPA ALPHA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsNAACP EMPOWERMENT…NAACP FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Civil RightsNAACP FOUNDATIONNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE — $22,500 · Civil RightsNATIONAL ASSOCIAT…NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $25,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $25,000 · HealthROCKTEEN YOUTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC — $25,000 · Public BenefitOMEGA LIFE MEMBERSHIP FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyOne Foundation Inc — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$280,000Education$205,000Civil Rights$122,500Human Services$50,000Health$50,000Youth Development$25,000Public Benefit$25,000Philanthropy$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSickle Cell Disease Association of America Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE — $22,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISS RUBY'S KIDS — $20,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetZETA PHI BETA SORORITY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOMEGA LIFE MEMBERSHIP FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALPHA KAPPA ALPHA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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