· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $5,356,775 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,948,852 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,592,077 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k1 grant · $171k
- $250k+5 grants · $5.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sigma Chi Leadership Institute | $2,378,373 |
| University of Washington | $1,481,406 |
| Sigma Chi Fraternity | $725,831 |
| House Corp ETA Chapter (university of Mississippi) | $300,000 |
| House Corp Beta Omicron Chapter (Iowa State University) | $300,000 |
| House Corp Beta Rho Chapter (Montana State University) | $171,165 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $771k went to new ones.
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
- SCSigma Chi Leadership Institute9× · 2017–2025 · $25M · revenue +30% · 95% of their budget
- SCSigma Chi International Fraternity Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $7.6M · revenue +7% · 33% of their budget
- SCSIGMA CHI CHAPTER HOUSE OF PURDUE4× · 2018–2023 · $312k · revenue +50% · 42% of their budget
Funded once
- SCSIGMA CHI FRATERNITYone grant, 2024 · $321k
- SCSIGMA CHI FRATERNITY GAMMA THETA CHAPTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +121%
- AAALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF MU CHAPTER SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY INCone grant, 2021 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Maintenance of housing for university of cincinnati students.
Provide dormitory facilities to college students
Maintain a college fraternity chapter house
None
Social club providing collegiate fraternity housing, activities, and environment
Provide housing for undergraduate chapter of national collegiate fraternity and facilitate between alumni and undergraduate members.
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.
To provide and maintain student housing for members of the sigma chi fraternity at missouri state university.
Provide Chapter House for Students
Local chapter of national college fraternity providing room and board, meeting facilities, and social activites for members only
Housing for college fraternity
To provide suitable housing for members of the sigma chi fraternity at the missouri university of science and technology campus.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sigma Chi Fraternity Gamma Theta Chapter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lambda Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 17 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Sigma Chi Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds Sigma Chi International Fraternity Inc ↗
- Who funds SIGMA CHI CHAPTER HOUSE OF PURDUE ↗
- Who funds SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY - ETA CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds THE SIGMA CHI HOUSE CORPORATION GAMMA X ↗
- Who funds Lambda Corporation ↗
- Who funds Alpha Chi House Corporation ↗
- Who funds SIGMA CHI HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY GAMMA THETA CHAPTER INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Sigma Chi Foundation 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.
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.