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The Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing

Our first goal is to preserve, renovate and restore the chapter house. Our second goal is to educate not only the university community but the public at large about the historic significance of fraternity and sorority chapters.

$790k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$26,285
Largest grant, FY2025
$181,928
Organizations funded a year
7 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$435k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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PhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$786k31%
FY20247$459k14%
FY202310$410k20%
FY202212$736k8%
FY202111$506k9%
FY202011$887k9%
FY201917$1.3M24%
FY201814$926k29%
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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.

Housing & Shelter$5.7MArts & Culture$980kMembership Benefit$164kEducation$38k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
IL
WI
MI
MA
IA
PA
MO
KS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 34 grantees
All grantees of The Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alpha Theta Chapter of Sigma Chi Inc$737,350576%
Midway Educational Foundation$678,8495n/a
Chicago Society of Alpha Delta Phi$490,830382%
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Club of Columbia Missouri$418,066756%
Beta Xi House Corporation of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity$391,63234%
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity$375,398219%
Theta XI Alumni Association$352,637997%
Kappa Delta Rho Eta Building Assoc$343,604565%
Rho Chapter Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity$334,0004n/a
Theta Chi Fraternity Inc$328,620925%
The Beta Foundation a Fraternity House$307,248421%
Phi Sigma Kappa Grand Chapter of Omicron$267,50032%
Phi Gamma Delta$231,298616%
Omicron Alumni Association$223,283655%
Theta Chi - Msu$212,1103n/a
Alpha Gamma Club$195,232337%
Colonnades Corporation$157,780114%
Psi Upsilon Fraternity Omega-Alumni Corporation$143,3213n/a
Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity Inc$106,70012%
Sigma Pi Fraternity-Intl Beta Gamma Chp$102,895377%
Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity$94,758415%
Friends of the Lambda Phi Chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity I$69,72156%
Psi Upsilon Fraternity Hesperian Building Association$57,30738%
Thomas Arkle Clark Chapter House Memoria$48,502126%
Lambda Iota Society Inc$34,14937%
Georgia Phi Association of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Inc$29,40017%
Kappa Sigma Fraternity Alpha-Gamma Chptr$28,17516%
Maine Beta Upsilon Building$24,5861n/a
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Corporation$19,7571n/a
Lambda Zeta Associates Inc$19,600115%
Sigma Pi Fraternity Theta Chapter$18,56013%
Society of Beta Sigma Psi Alpha Alumni Chapter$16,570231%
Theta Chi-PSU$8,4231n/a
Sigma Nu$6,3221n/a

Where it is load-bearing

The Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlpha Theta Chapter of Sigma Chi Inc: $737,350 over 5y, 76% of budgetChicago Society of Alpha Delta Phi: $490,830 over 3y, 82% of budgetSigma Alpha Epsilon Club of Columbia Missouri: $418,066 over 7y, 56% of budgetBeta Xi House Corporation of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity: $391,632 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetSigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity: $375,398 over 2y, 19% of budgetTheta XI Alumni Association: $352,637 over 9y, 97% of budgetKappa Delta Rho Eta Building Assoc: $343,604 over 5y, 65% of budgetTheta Chi Fraternity Inc: $328,620 over 9y, 25% of budgetThe Beta Foundation a Fraternity House: $307,248 over 4y, 21% of budgetPhi Sigma Kappa Grand Chapter of Omicron: $267,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetPhi Gamma Delta: $231,298 over 6y, 16% of budgetOmicron Alumni Association: $223,283 over 6y, 55% of budgetAlpha Gamma Club: $195,232 over 3y, 37% of budgetColonnades Corporation: $157,780 over 1y, 14% of budgetAlpha Tau Omega Fraternity Inc: $106,700 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSigma Pi Fraternity-Intl Beta Gamma Chp: $102,895 over 3y, 77% of budgetPhi Kappa Sigma Fraternity: $94,758 over 4y, 15% of budgetFriends of the Lambda Phi Chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity I: $69,721 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetPsi Upsilon Fraternity Hesperian Building Association: $57,307 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetThomas Arkle Clark Chapter House Memoria: $48,502 over 1y, 26% of budgetLambda Iota Society Inc: $34,149 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetGeorgia Phi Association of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Inc: $29,400 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetKappa Sigma Fraternity Alpha-Gamma Chptr: $28,175 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetLambda Zeta Associates Inc: $19,600 over 1y, 15% of budgetSigma Pi Fraternity Theta Chapter: $18,560 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSociety of Beta Sigma Psi Alpha Alumni Chapter: $16,570 over 2y, 31% of budget

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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 26.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to The Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing 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.

About The Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing

How much does The Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing give?
The Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing reported 13 grants totaling $790,441 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (83%), Arts & Culture (14%), Membership Benefit (2%).
Who are The Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alpha Theta Chapter of Sigma Chi Inc ($737k), Midway Educational Foundation ($679k), Chicago Society of Alpha Delta Phi ($491k).
Does The Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Where is The Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing based?
The Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing is based in IL.

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 34 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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