Tennessee · Nonprofit
CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION
CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,818,576 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,655,250). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 114
- Grants received
- $9.8M
- Net assets
- $74M
What Chi Omega Foundation does
Mission
The Chi Omega Foundation supports educational & leadership development through scholarships, grants and other learning opportunities.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarships and aid to members in need: the foundation awards annual scholarships to qualified recipients for undergraduate and graduate educational pursuits. Scholarships are awarded based on multiple factors including academic merit, leadership within the organization, financial need and field of study. The foundation provides emergency aid grants to qualifying members who are experiencing unexpected times of need due to financial, medical or disaster situations.
$563,889 spentof which $563,889 as grants12% of program spendingEducational programming: the foundation supports the development and implementation of educational and leadership programming to over 290,000 members through in person and virtual learning settings. Programming fosters personal growth and prepares collegians and alumnae to serve as leaders. Through this training, members experience extensive personal growth and in turn share their knowledge and skills with others on their campuses and in their communities.
$897,565 spentof which $897,565 as grants19% of program spendingEducational area housing grants and headquarters preservation enhancements: educational area housing grants to chi omega house corporations to support the educational portion of chapter housing. The foundation preserves and maintains the chi omega executive headquarters that houses administrative, program and customer services as well as displays chi omega's impact on women's history.
$2,488,663 spentof which $2,488,663 as grants51% of program spendingOther program service expenses are made up of the educational portion of expenses to maintain and operate the chi omega executive headquarters.
$899,816 spent19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,849,933.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $63M to $75M (+20%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $212k → $1.3M.
32 of 114 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $500k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Chi Omega Fraternity). These are real filings, and they are not money CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 114 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
66% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 21% · 2019 43% · 2020 39% · 2021 37% · 2022 24% · 2023 22% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
60% of CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.9M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 28 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION?
- CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,818,576 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,655,250). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 114 organizations giving $9,818,576 in grants to CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION, 74 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,655,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 114 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing