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· 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 FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$300k
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.

Education$6.1MHousing & Shelter$1.7MCommunity Improvement$15k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $682,671, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,340,489 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $657,818 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $303k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$97,184
Median grant
5
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alabama Alpha Mu Fraternal Association$300,000
Mississippi Theta House Corporation of SAE$106,168
Wyoming Alpha SAE Fraternity House Corporation$100,000
Georgia Phi Association of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Inc$97,184
Illinois Beta Housing LLC$35,000
North Dakota Alpha Housing LLC$19,319
SAE Pennsylvania Zeta Chapter$15,000
Kansas Gamma SAE Building & Education Foundation$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON BUILDING ASSOC: $450k → 13%NEW YORK EPSILON: $546k → 11%IOWA DELTA ALUMNI ASSOC: $199k → 10%Alabama Alpha Mu Fraternal Association: $300k → 15%KANSAS ALPHA: $294k → 15%Georgia Phi Association of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Inc: $97k → 13%OHEP - DEVOTIE HALL ASOOC: $279k → 9%DEVOTIE HALL ASSOCIATION: $93k → 16%MISSISSIPPI THETA CHAPTER: $1.3M → 14%HOUSE CORP OF MISSISSIPPI THETA: $62k → 24%Wyoming Alpha SAE Fraternity House Corporation: $100k → 17%SOUTH DAKOTA SIGMA: $665k → 20%SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON BUILDING ASSOC: $30k → 13%ALABAMA ALPHA MU FRATERNAL ASSOC: $150k → 15%OHEP - DEVOTIE HALL ASOOC: $45k → 9%MISSISSIPPI THETA CHAPTER: $174k → 14%SOUTH DAKOTA SIGMA: $151k → 20%NEBRASKA LAMBDA PI: $60k → 13%SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON: $150k → 14%SOUTH DAKOTA SIGMA: $74k → 20%SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON FRATERNITY: $150k → 14%SOUTH DAKOTA SIGMA: $62k → 20%SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON: $150k → 14%SOUTH DAKOTA SIGMA: $51k → 20%IOWA DELTA ALUMNI ASSOC: $40k → 10%MICHIGAN GAMMA HOUSING: $131k → 14%SOUTH DAKOTA SIGMA: $39k → 20%OHIO TAU HOUSING LLC: $130k → 14%SOUTH DAKOTA SIGMA: $31k → 20%OREGON BETA HOUSING LLC: $130k → 14%NORTH DAKOTA ALPHA HOUSING LLC: $126k → 14%MICHIGAN GAMMA HOUSING LLC: $120k → 14%SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON: $115k → 14%SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON: $115k → 14%SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON: $115k → 14%SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON: $115k → 14%MISSISSIPPI THETA CHAPTER: $114k → 14%Mississippi Theta House Corporation of SAE: $106k → 14%MICHIGAN GAMMA HOUSING LLC: $88k → 14%SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON FRATERNITY: $75k → 14%OHIO TAU HOUSING LLC: $49k → 14%MICHIGAN GAMMA HOUSING LLC: $44k → 14%Illinois Beta Housing LLC: $35k → 14%INDIANA SIGMA HOUSING LLC: $29k → 14%INDIANA GAMMA HOUSING LLC: $29k → 14%SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON: $25k → 14%INDIANA DELTA HOUSING LLC: $25k → 14%NORTH DAKOTA ALPHA HOUSING LLC: $23k → 14%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
WY
SD
IA
OH
NE
KS
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 16 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
8

Total granted

$6.5M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
0%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $328k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • MT
    Missississippi Theta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +265%
  • SA
    Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation
    6× · 2017–2022 · $785k · revenue +73%
  • SA
    SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON BUILDING ASSN
    3× · 2017–2021 · $540k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • LA
    LAMBDA ALPHA EPSILON FRATERNITY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $546k · revenue -67% · 65% of their budget
  • SA
    SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON FRATERNITY OF KANSAS
    one grant, 2024 · $294k · revenue -18% · 32% of their budget
  • OB
    OREGON BETA HOUSING LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $130k
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
Phi Kappa Psi - Oregon Alpha Chapter S&T Fraternity Management

Housing for college fraternity

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2
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Club of Columbia Missouri

Lodging for non-profit fraternal organization

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3
Sigma Tau of Kappa Delta Housing Associa

Provide Chapter House for Students

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4
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity

To maintain and preserve the chapter house for the georgia beta chapter of sigma alpha epsilon at the university of georgia

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5
Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Fraternity

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6
Sc Delta Housing Corporation

Support the sc delta chapter of sigma alpha epsilon in the management of an on-campus house/facility.

Education
7
Epsilon Psi House Corporation

Provide housing and meeting place for members

Education
8
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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9
Kappa Sigma Fraternity Alpha-Gamma Chptr

Provide Room, Board, and Social Activities for Active Members

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10
Phi Sigma Kappa Chi Deuteron Wsu

Provide occupancy for live-in members of Phi Sigma Kappa WSU Fraternity.Provide Philanthropy for Community.

Membership Benefit
11
Sigma Omicron Housing Association

Maintain a college fraternity chapter house

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12
Phi Eta House Corp of Delta Delta Delta Sorority

To provide guidance and shelter to members

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sigma Alpha Epsilon Building Assn; the most unlike its peers is Lambda Alpha Epsilon Fraternity Inc. 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

18 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. 18 of the 29 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Missississippi Theta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity: $1,642,615 · OtherMissississippi Theta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon FraternitySouth Dakota Sigma Chapter House Association: $1,073,906 · OtherSouth Dakota Sigma Chapter House AssociationLAMBDA ALPHA EPSILON FRATERNITY INC: $546,000 · OtherLAMBDA ALPHA EPSILON FRATERNITY INCSIGMA ALPHA EPSILON BUILDING ASSN: $539,741 · OtherSIGMA ALPHA EPSILON BUILDING ASSNAlabama Alpha Mu Fraternal Association: $450,000 · OtherAlabama Alpha Mu Fraternal AssociationDEVOTIE HALL ASSOCIATION: $416,227 · OtherDEVOTIE HALL ASSOCIATIONMICHIGAN GAMMA HOUSING: $338,414 · OtherSIGMA ALPHA EPSILON FRATERNITY OF KANSAS: $294,000 · OtherSIGMA ALPHA EPSILON FRATERNITY: $239,029 · Other+16 more: $1,385,950 · Other+16 moreSigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation: $785,000 · EducationSigma Alpha E…GEORGIA PHI ASSOCIATION OF SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON INC: $97,184 · EducationGEORGIA PHI A…+2 more: $41,837 · Education
Other$6,925,882Education$924,021

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMissississippi Theta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity: $1,642,615 over 4y, 18% of budgetSouth Dakota Sigma Chapter House Association: $1,073,906 over 7y, 69% of budgetSigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation: $785,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetLAMBDA ALPHA EPSILON FRATERNITY INC: $546,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetSIGMA ALPHA EPSILON BUILDING ASSN: $539,741 over 3y, 12% of budgetAlabama Alpha Mu Fraternal Association: $450,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetSIGMA ALPHA EPSILON FRATERNITY OF KANSAS: $294,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetSIGMA ALPHA EPSILON FRATERNITY: $239,029 over 2y, 61% of budgetSigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity: $225,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetOKLAHOMA MU ALUMNI CORPORATION: $191,400 over 5y, 44% of budgetHouse Corporation of Mississippi Theta of Sigma Alpha Epsilon: $106,168 over 1y, 16% of budgetGEORGIA PHI ASSOCIATION OF SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON INC: $97,184 over 1y, 24% of budgetSIGMA ALPHA EPSILON FRATERNITY: $40,241 over 4y, 11% of budgetSAE Financial & Housing Corp: $29,400 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSIGMA ALPHA EPSILON FRATERNITY PENN ZETA: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTexas Tau for Sigma Alpha Epsilon Housing Authority: $12,437 over 1y, 5.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%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
    2get 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 · 0–5%
    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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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