How much does Sigma Chi Foundation give?

Sigma Chi Foundation reported 6 itemized grants totaling $5,356,775, out of $6,948,852 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Sigma Chi Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (96%), Recreation & Sports (4%), Housing & Shelter (0%).

Who are Sigma Chi Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sigma Chi Leadership Institute ($25M), Sigma Chi International Fraternity Inc ($7.6M), University of Washington ($1.6M).

Does Sigma Chi Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Sigma Chi Foundation based?

Sigma Chi Foundation is based in IL.

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Illinois · Public charity

Sigma Chi Foundation

The Sigma Chi Foundation Solicits financial resources, provides faithful stewardship, and engages in exemplary ethical practices in support of Sigma Chi and leadership development.

$6.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 6
Itemized grants FY2025: 4
Organizations funded FY2024: 50%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $5.4M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $725,831
Largest grant, FY2025: $2,378,373
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 8; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $32M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Sigma Chi Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $430k went to new ones.

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	6	$5.4M	50%
FY2024	4	$4.4M	50%
FY2023	7	$4.4M	0%
FY2022	5	$4.8M	20%
FY2021	7	$3.5M	14%
FY2020	4	$3.8M	25%
FY2019	8	$4.3M	13%
FY2018	6	$3.1M	50%

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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$34MRecreation & Sports$1.6MHousing & Shelter$15k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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
Sigma Chi Leadership Institute	$24,829,044	9	95%
Sigma Chi International Fraternity Inc	$7,636,854	7	33%
University of Washington	$1,590,269	2	n/a
Sigma Chi Fraternity	$321,444	1	n/a
Sigma Chi Chapter House of Purdue	$312,000	4	42%
Sigma Chi Fraternity - Eta Chapter	$300,000	1	12%
The Sigma Chi House Corporation Gamma X	$88,036	5	45%
Lambda Corporation	$71,043	6	5%
Alpha Chi House Corporation	$45,662	5	5%
Sigma Chi Fraternity Alpha Eta Chapter	$30,500	2	n/a

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All grantees of Sigma Chi Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sigma Chi Leadership Institute	$24,829,044	9	95%
Sigma Chi International Fraternity Inc	$7,636,854	7	33%
University of Washington	$1,590,269	2	n/a
Sigma Chi Fraternity	$321,444	1	n/a
Sigma Chi Chapter House of Purdue	$312,000	4	42%
Sigma Chi Fraternity - Eta Chapter	$300,000	1	12%
The Sigma Chi House Corporation Gamma X	$88,036	5	45%
Lambda Corporation	$71,043	6	5%
Alpha Chi House Corporation	$45,662	5	5%
Sigma Chi Fraternity Alpha Eta Chapter	$30,500	2	n/a
Epsilon XI House Corporation	$19,320	2	n/a
Sigma Chi Housing Corporation	$14,500	2	2%
Phi Phi House Corp	$13,272	2	n/a
Sigma Chi Fraternity Gamma Theta Chapter Inc	$10,891	1	2%
Alumni Association of Mu Chapter Sigma Chi Fraternity Inc	$3,000	1	n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($471k), not named here.

Sigma Chi Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 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 9.

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About Sigma Chi Foundation

How much does Sigma Chi Foundation give?: Sigma Chi Foundation reported 6 itemized grants totaling $5,356,775, out of $6,948,852 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Sigma Chi Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (96%), Recreation & Sports (4%), Housing & Shelter (0%).
Who are Sigma Chi Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sigma Chi Leadership Institute ($25M), Sigma Chi International Fraternity Inc ($7.6M), University of Washington ($1.6M).
Does Sigma Chi Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Sigma Chi Foundation based?: Sigma Chi Foundation is based in IL.