Mississippi · Nonprofit
DELTA UPSILON SIGMA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION
DELTA UPSILON SIGMA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,893 to it, the largest being LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $59k
- Net assets
- $44k
What Delta Upsilon Sigma Educational Advancement Foundation does
Mission
To combat education inequity in mississippi and make a positive impact on the most vulnerable youth of coming and future generations in communities statewide with overcoming inequities through provisions of educational financial and socioeconomic tools needed for success
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Give back with a backpack (gbwb) program allows people across the stat e to donate to project impact so backpacks full of needed educational supplies can be provided to the youth of communities in need across the state. Over 14452 backpacks have been provided thus far impacting 39 counties across the state of mississippi since 2016.
$13,507 spentof which $41,097 as grants32% of program spendingBuild your own scholarship (byos) program allows communities to build and fund a scholarship with their choice of stipulations and requirements. $81350 in scholarships have been provided to recipients in 39 counties across the state of mississippi since 2016.
$11,915 spentof which $15,000 as grants28% of program spendingProject positive +self program provides students across the state of mississippi access to social - emotional learning (sel) tools to help them identify and navigate through emotional mental and behvioral health issues.
$16,535 spentof which $38,437 as grants39% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,957.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $90k to $57k (−36%).
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.
100% of DELTA UPSILON SIGMA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Brian Ferguson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $143.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DELTA UPSILON SIGMA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
DELTA UPSILON SIGMA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 DELTA UPSILON SIGMA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 99% · 2022 92% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
DELTA UPSILON SIGMA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
DELTA UPSILON SIGMA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION's revenue fell 39% between 2020 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,195 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like DELTA UPSILON SIGMA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT 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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DELTA UPSILON SIGMA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT 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 DELTA UPSILON SIGMA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION?
- DELTA UPSILON SIGMA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,893 to it, the largest being LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DELTA UPSILON SIGMA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $58,893 in grants to DELTA UPSILON SIGMA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DELTA UPSILON SIGMA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION?
- LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DELTA UPSILON SIGMA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2020–2022), and the filings of 5 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing