· Private foundation
Sigma Gamma Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $43k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOLDI EXCEPTIONAL YOUTH SERVICES | $55,000 |
| VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF DETROIT | $55,000 |
| FAR THERAPEUTIC ARTS AND RECREATION | $12,500 |
| THE FOWLER CENTER | $10,000 |
| PENRICKTON CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| THE FAMILY CENTER | $10,000 |
| FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC | $9,000 |
| SIGMA GAMMA ASSOCATION | $8,500 |
| KIDS ON THE GO | $7,324 |
| THERAPY RANCH | $5,000 |
| BANBURY CROSS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER | $3,000 |
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DIDETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN3× · 2021–2023 · $201k · revenue +10%
- KOKIDS ON THE GO3× · 2023–2025 · $33k · revenue +32%
- FCFULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue ×15
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $69k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $7k
- DHDAN HUGHES OF OPTIMIDEAS LLCone 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.
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.
Help disabled children
The Field Center provided services to over 20 children with motor disorders through the use of the feldenkrais methods and trained over 10 practitioners to apply this method
Educational
To improve the quality of life of children and adults with special needs through equine activites and therapies resulting in a more independent life in society.
Provides occupational, physical, and speech therapies.
Comprehensive therapeutic services to individuals from birth to twenty one years of age with handicap conditions. the center offers physical, occupational, and speech therapy and visual/hearing services to those in the tri state area.
The friendship circle is a unique organization with a refreshing approach to helping families of children with special needs.
To provide year round, high-quality education, nursing care and therapies in an environment for children of all abilities, with dignity, while giving families the ability to become financially independent and children the opportunity to…
Care and teaching of developmentally disabled children and infants
How this is measured
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 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON THE GO ↗
- Who funds FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE FOWLER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SIGMA GAMMA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Penrickton Center for Blind Children ↗
- Who funds BANBURY CROSS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Patrick and Christie Scoggin Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sigma Gamma Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sigma Gamma Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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