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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$2.4M
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$34MRecreation & Sports$1.6MHousing & Shelter$15k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $5,356,775, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,948,852 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,592,077 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

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $171k
  • $250k+5 grants · $5.2M
$725,831
Median grant
5
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%House Corp Beta Rho Chapter (Montana State University): $171k → 10%PHI PHI HOUSE CORP: $7k → 22%EPSILON XI HOUSE CORPORATION: $10k → 16%SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY GAMMA THETA CHAPTER: $11k → 19%SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY ALPHA ETA CHAPTER: $18k → 15%House Corp Beta Omicron Chapter (Iowa State University): $300k → 17%LAMBDA HOUSE CORPORATION: $23k → 9%DELTA DELTA HOUSE CORPORATION: $117k → 13%EPSILON OMEGA HOUSE CORPORATION: $9k → 16%ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF MU CHAPTER: $3k → 10%University of Washington: $1.5M → 9%SIGMA CHI LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $3.6M → 14%House Corp ETA Chapter (university of Mississippi): $300k → 18%ALPHA CHI HOUSE CORPORATION: $16k → 7%PHI PHI HOUSE CORPORATION: $7k → 22%EPSILON XI HOUSE CORPORATION: $9k → 16%SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY ALPHA ETA CHAPTER: $13k → 15%LAMBDA HOUSE CORPORATION: $16k → 9%DELTA DELTA HOUSE CORPORATION: $115k → 13%EPSILON OMEGA HOUSING BOARD: $6k → 16%University of Washington: $109k → 9%SIGMA CHI LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $3.5M → 14%ALPHA CHI HOUSE CORPORATION: $10k → 7%LAMBDA HOUSE CORPORATION: $16k → 9%DELTA DELTA HOUSE CORPORATION: $65k → 13%SIGMA CHI LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $3.1M → 14%ALPHA CHI HOUSE CORPORATION: $10k → 7%LAMBDA HOUSE CORPORATION: $11k → 9%DELTA DELTA HOUSE CORPORATION: $14k → 13%SIGMA CHI LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $2.9M → 14%ALPHA CHI HOUSE CORPORATION: $5k → 7%LAMBDA HOUSE CORPORATION: $4k → 9%SIGMA CHI LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $2.9M → 14%ALPHA CHI HOUSE CORPORATION: $5k → 7%LAMBDA HOUSE CORPORATION: $1k → 9%Sigma Chi Leadership Institute: $2.4M → 14%SIGMA CHI LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $2.3M → 14%SIGMA CHI LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $2.1M → 14%Sigma Chi Leadership Institute: $2.0M → 14%Sigma Chi Fraternity: $2.0M → 14%SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY: $1.2M → 14%SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY: $1.1M → 14%SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY ALPHA ETA CHAPTER: $962k → 14%SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY: $874k → 14%SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY: $837k → 14%Sigma Chi Fraternity: $726k → 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

WA
MT
IL
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
KS
MS
TX
FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35M · 11 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$35M
$335k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+121%

Still filing today

55%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $771k 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

  • SC
    Sigma Chi Leadership Institute
    9× · 2017–2025 · $25M · revenue +30% · 95% of their budget
  • SC
    Sigma Chi International Fraternity Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $7.6M · revenue +7% · 33% of their budget
  • SC
    SIGMA CHI CHAPTER HOUSE OF PURDUE
    4× · 2018–2023 · $312k · revenue +50% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

  • SC
    SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY
    one grant, 2024 · $321k
  • SC
    SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY GAMMA THETA CHAPTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +121%
  • AA
    ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF MU CHAPTER SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
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
Sigma Chi Building Company

Maintenance of housing for university of cincinnati students.

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2
Alpha Xi Chapter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity

Provide dormitory facilities to college students

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3
Sigma Omicron Housing Association

Maintain a college fraternity chapter house

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4
Sigma Chi Chapter House of Depauw University

None

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5
Sigma Chi Fraternity

Social club providing collegiate fraternity housing, activities, and environment

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6
Gamma Theta Incorporated

Provide housing for undergraduate chapter of national collegiate fraternity and facilitate between alumni and undergraduate members.

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7
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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8
Sigma Chi Housing Corporation of Springfield Mo

To provide and maintain student housing for members of the sigma chi fraternity at missouri state university.

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9
Sigma Tau of Kappa Delta Housing Associa

Provide Chapter House for Students

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10
Sigma Chi - Alpha Upsilon Chapter

Local chapter of national college fraternity providing room and board, meeting facilities, and social activites for members only

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11
Sigma Chi House Corporation

To provide suitable housing for members of the sigma chi fraternity at the missouri university of science and technology campus.

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12
Phi Kappa Psi - Oregon Alpha Chapter S&T Fraternity Management

Housing for college fraternity

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sigma Chi Fraternity Gamma Theta Chapter Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 17 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sigma Chi Leadership Institute: $24,829,044 · EducationSigma Chi Leadership InstituteSigma Chi International Fraternity Inc: $7,636,854 · OtherSigma Chi International Fraternity…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $1,590,269 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON+14 more: $1,700,833 · Other+14 more
Education$24,829,044Other$10,927,956

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 budgetSigma Chi Leadership Institute: $24,829,044 over 9y, 95% of budgetSigma Chi International Fraternity Inc: $7,636,854 over 7y, 33% of budgetSIGMA CHI CHAPTER HOUSE OF PURDUE: $312,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetSIGMA CHI FRATERNITY - ETA CHAPTER: $300,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE SIGMA CHI HOUSE CORPORATION GAMMA X: $88,036 over 5y, 45% of budgetLambda Corporation: $71,043 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetAlpha Chi House Corporation: $45,662 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetSIGMA CHI HOUSING CORPORATION: $14,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSIGMA CHI FRATERNITY GAMMA THETA CHAPTER INC: $10,891 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

  • 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 ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%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
    0get no government money at all
    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 17 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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