Illinois · Public charity
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation
To support its members and their chapters to help fulfill their educational aspirations and goals; to promote programs teaching leadership, scholarship, and personal development; and to ensure the presevation of Levere Memorial Temple.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $683k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $97,184
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $683k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $1.5M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $699k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $687k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $1.7M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $810k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $368k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $364k | 43% |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Education$6.1MHousing & Shelter$1.7MCommunity Improvement$15k
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
IL
NY
WY
SD
IA
OH
NE
KS
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missississippi Theta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity | $1,642,615 | 4 | 18% |
| South Dakota Sigma Chapter House Association | $1,073,906 | 7 | 69% |
| Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation | $785,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Lambda Alpha Epsilon Fraternity Inc | $546,000 | 1 | 65% |
| Sigma Alpha Epsilon Building Assn | $539,741 | 3 | 12% |
| Alabama Alpha Mu Fraternal Association | $450,000 | 2 | 39% |
| Devotie Hall Association | $416,227 | 3 | n/a |
| Michigan Gamma Housing | $338,414 | 3 | n/a |
| Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity of Kansas | $294,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity | $239,029 | 2 | 61% |
Show all 29 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missississippi Theta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity | $1,642,615 | 4 | 18% |
| South Dakota Sigma Chapter House Association | $1,073,906 | 7 | 69% |
| Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation | $785,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Lambda Alpha Epsilon Fraternity Inc | $546,000 | 1 | 65% |
| Sigma Alpha Epsilon Building Assn | $539,741 | 3 | 12% |
| Alabama Alpha Mu Fraternal Association | $450,000 | 2 | 39% |
| Devotie Hall Association | $416,227 | 3 | n/a |
| Michigan Gamma Housing | $338,414 | 3 | n/a |
| Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity of Kansas | $294,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity | $239,029 | 2 | 61% |
| Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity | $225,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Oklahoma Mu Alumni Corporation | $191,400 | 5 | 44% |
| Ohio Tau Housing LLC | $179,179 | 2 | n/a |
| North Dakota Alpha Housing LLC | $177,466 | 4 | n/a |
| Oregon Beta Housing LLC | $129,791 | 1 | n/a |
| House Corporation of Mississippi Theta of Sigma Alpha Epsilon | $106,168 | 1 | 16% |
| Wyoming Alpha SAE Fraternity House Corporation | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Georgia Phi Association of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Inc | $97,184 | 1 | 24% |
| Indiana Gamma Housing LLC | $57,056 | 3 | n/a |
| Illinois Beta Housing LLC | $55,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Michigan Gamma Housing LLC | $52,273 | 2 | n/a |
| Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity | $40,241 | 4 | 11% |
| SAE Financial & Housing Corp | $29,400 | 1 | 1% |
| Indiana Delta Housing LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity Penn Zeta | $15,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Indiana Sigma Housing LLC | $14,876 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas Tau for Sigma Alpha Epsilon Housing Authority | $12,437 | 1 | 5% |
| Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Idaho Alpha Housing LLC | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.
About Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation
- How much does Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation give?
- Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $682,671, out of $1,340,489 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (78%), Housing & Shelter (22%), Community Improvement (0%).
- Who are Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Missississippi Theta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity ($1.6M), South Dakota Sigma Chapter House Association ($1.1M), Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation ($785k).
- Does Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation based?
- Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation is based in IL.
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