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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 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, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $102,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $235,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $132,500 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.
$22,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC$25,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$25,000
NAACP$22,500
ZETA PHI BETA SORORITY INC$20,000
ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA EDUCATIONAL ADV FOUND INC$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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

IL
NY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 42% of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 46% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 14%.

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

19%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

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

Funded once

  • IO
    IMPACT ONE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • NS
    National Sigma Beta Club
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -25%
  • NU
    NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -65%
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
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.

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3
Omicron Lambda Chapter Alpha Phi Alpha Education Foundation
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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…

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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.

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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.

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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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Foundation; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
8/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMPACT ONE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherIMPACT ONE FOUNDATIONPHI BETA SIGMA FEDERAL CREDIT UNION: $50,000 · OtherPHI BETA SIGMA FEDERAL CREDIT UNIONCWM CENTENNIAL GALA LLC: $25,000 · OtherCWM CENTENNIAL GALA LLCSickle Cell Disease Association of America Inc: $25,000 · OtherSickle Cell Disease Association of Ameri…JOHN 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 INCSIGMA GAMMA RHO SORORITY INC: $10,000 · OtherBRIDGE CROSSING JUBILEE INC: $10,000 · OtherThurgood Marshall College Fund: $50,000 · EducationThurgood Marshall College Fun…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $50,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INCNational Sigma Beta Club: $50,000 · EducationNational Sigma Beta ClubZETA 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 BenefitOne Foundation Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropyOMEGA LIFE MEMBERSHIP FOUNDATION: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetSickle Cell Disease Association of America Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE: $22,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZETA PHI BETA SORORITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMISS RUBY'S KIDS: $20,000 over 1y, 8.3% 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
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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's 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, 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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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