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Sigma Nu Educational Foundation Inc

The sigma nu educational foundation secures and provides enduring resources to support the educational and charitable initiatives of sigma nu fraternity.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Housing & Shelter$3.9MEducation$3.6MMembership Benefit$87k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $2,393,710, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,670,339 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $276,629 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

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $218k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.1M
$217,638
Median grant
5
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NU CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU HOUSE CORPORATION$1,154,166
EPSILON XI CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY INC$987,152
EPSILON EPSILON BUILDING CORPORATION OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY$217,638
DELTA TAU ASSOCIATION OF SIGMA NU$25,954
ZETA CHI OF SIGMA NU HOME ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON INC$8,800
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 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ZETA DELTA TRUST COMPANY: $7k → 11%ZETA DELTA TRUST COMPANY: $7k → 16%EPSILON PI ALUMNI OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY INC: $20k → 14%ZETA CHI OF SIGMA NU HOME ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON INC: $12k → 16%DELTA EPSILON - SIGMA NU CORPORATION OF OKLAHOMA: $16k → 13%EPSILON EPSILON BUILDING CORPORATION OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY: $1.0M → 15%BETA THETA CORPORATION OF SIGMA NU: $17k → 15%NU CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU HOUSE CORPORATION: $1.2M → 15%RHO CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY: $14k → 17%DELTA TAU ASSOCIATION OF SIGMA NU: $292k → 14%EPSILON SIGMA - SIGMA NU HOUSE CORP OF MEMPHIS: $13k → 17%BETA TAU CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY: $39k → 8%SNGT HOUSE CORPORATION: $26k → 13%SIGMA NU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY INC: $18k → 12%GAMMA CHI CLUBHOUSE ASSOCIATION: $98k → 9%EPSILON XI CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY INC: $987k → 18%SIGMA NU FRATERNITY INC: $14k → 12%ZETA CHI OF SIGMA NU HOME ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON INC: $10k → 16%EPSILON EPSILON BUILDING CORPORATION OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY: $708k → 15%NU CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU HOUSE CORPORATION: $1.1M → 15%RHO CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY: $960 → 17%DELTA TAU ASSOCIATION OF SIGMA NU: $172k → 14%BETA TAU CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY HOUSE CORPORATION INC: $37k → 8%SIGMA NU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF INDIANA UNVERSITY INC: $16k → 12%GAMMA CHI CLUBHOUSE ASSOCIATION: $8k → 9%SIGMA NU FRATERNITY INC: $10k → 12%ZETA CHI OF SIGMA NU HOME ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON INC: $10k → 16%EPSILON EPSILON BUILDING CORPORATION OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY: $425k → 15%DELTA TAU ASSOCIATION OF SIGMA NU: $85k → 14%BETA TAU CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY HOUSE CORPORATION INC: $35k → 8%ZETA CHI OF SIGMA NU HOME ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON INC: $9k → 16%EPSILON EPSILON BUILDING CORPORATION OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY: $218k → 15%DELTA TAU ASSOCIATION OF SIGMA NU: $61k → 14%BETA TAU CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY HOUSE CORPORATION INC: $32k → 8%ZETA CHI OF SIGMA NU HOME ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON INC: $9k → 16%DELTA TAU ASSOCIATION OF SIGMA NU: $58k → 14%BETA TAU CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY HOUSE CORPORATION INC: $31k → 8%ZETA CHI OF SIGMA NU HOME ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON INC: $9k → 16%DELTA TAU ASSOCIATION OF SIGMA NU: $26k → 14%BETA TAU CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY HOUSE CORPORATION INC: $28k → 8%DELTA TAU ASSOCIATION OF SIGMA NU: $15k → 14%BETA TAU CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY: $14k → 8%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
ID
OR
IN
CA
MO
VA
TN
NC
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 12 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

$6.5M
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+40%

Still filing today

83%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $987k 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

  • DT
    DELTA TAU HOUSING CORPORATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $708k · revenue +30% · 72% of their budget
  • PS
    PURDUE SIGMA NU ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $533k · revenue +86% · 65% of their budget
  • BT
    BETA TAU CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY HOUSE INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $217k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • SH
    SNGT HOUSE CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $26k
  • EP
    Epsilon Pi Alumni of Sigma Nu Fraternity Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +40%
  • BT
    BETA THETA CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU BUILDING ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +99% · 81% of their budget
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 Nu House Corporation of Columbia Mo

A house corporation that owns the sigma nu fraternity house at the university of missouri-columbia. the mission is to provide housing for the rho chapter of the sigma nu fraternity.

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2
Phi Kappa Psi - Oregon Alpha Chapter S&T Fraternity Management

Housing for college fraternity

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3
Snhc Inc

Provide housing for the sigma nu fraternity students and to ensure continuity of said housing.

Recreation & Sports
4
Sigma Tau of Kappa Delta Housing Associa

Provide Chapter House for Students

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5
Sigma Nu - Theta Chapter Alumni Assoc

Provide housing and support for undergraduate chapter of national collegiate social fraternity and provide opportunity for social interaction between the alumni and undergraduate members of this fraternity.

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6
Beta Theta Pi Building Co - Beta Nu

Building company for college fraternity.

Recreation & Sports
7
Sigma Chi Housing Corporation

Management of epsilon omega fraternity house at ball state university, muncie in. fraternity provides housing, meals, educational & social facilities to its member students.

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8
Delta Sigma Chapter of Alpha Delta Pi House Corporation

Provide housing for undergraduate chapter of a national collegiate social sorority.

Education
9
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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10
Sigma Chi Chapter House of Depauw University

None

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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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sigma Nu Corporation of Oklahoma; the most unlike its peers is Gamma Chi Clubhouse Association Co S&T Fraternity Management. 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

15 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. 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Epsilon Epsilon Building Corporation of Sigma Nu: $2,387,036 · OtherEpsilon Epsilon Building Corporation of Sigma NuNU CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU HOUSE CORPORATION: $2,239,460 · OtherNU CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU HOUSE CORPORATIONDELTA TAU HOUSING CORPORATION: $708,002 · OtherDELTA TAU HOUSING CORPORATIONPURDUE SIGMA NU ASSOCIATION INC: $533,248 · OtherPURDUE SIGMA NU ASSOCIATION INC+9 more: $312,821 · OtherHOUSE CORPORATION OF EPSILON XI CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU: $987,152 · EducationHOUSE CORPORATION OF…BETA TAU CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY HOUSE INC: $217,432 · EducationBETA TAU CHAPTER OF …SIGMA NU CORPORATION OF OKLAHOMA: $152,000 · EducationSIGMA NU CORPORATION…+1 more: $14,882 · Education
Other$6,180,567Education$1,371,466

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEpsilon Epsilon Building Corporation of Sigma Nu: $2,387,036 over 4y, 61% of budgetDELTA TAU HOUSING CORPORATION: $708,002 over 7y, 72% of budgetPURDUE SIGMA NU ASSOCIATION INC: $533,248 over 3y, 65% of budgetBETA TAU CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU FRATERNITY HOUSE INC: $217,432 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetSIGMA NU CORPORATION OF OKLAHOMA: $152,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetGAMMA CHI CLUBHOUSE ASSOCIATION CO S&T FRATERNITY MANAGEMENT: $105,895 over 2y, 32% of budgetZETA CHI OF SIGMA NU HOME ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON: $59,320 over 6y, 17% of budgetSIGMA NU ALUMNI ASSOC AT IND UNIV INC: $33,866 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetSIGMA NU FRATERNITY INC: $24,063 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBETA THETA CHAPTER OF SIGMA NU BUILDING ASSOCIATION: $16,788 over 1y, 81% of budgetSIGMA NU FRATERNITY RHO: $14,882 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetZETA DELTA TRUST CO: $13,461 over 2y, 7.9% 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 Nu Educational Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sigma Nu Educational Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%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
    3get 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Sigma Nu Educational Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Sigma Nu Educational Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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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