Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FRATERNITY AND SORORITY ACTION FUND
FRATERNITY AND SORORITY ACTION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $681,196 to it, the largest being KAPPA ALPHA THETA FRATERNITY INC ($160,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $315k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $681k
- Net assets
- $752k
What Fraternity and Sorority Action Fund does
Mission
The Fraternity and Sorority Action Fund exists to promote and advocate for the fraternal community in funding initiatives such as grassroots engagement, public relations, research, litigation and state legislation development on topics of hazing, freedom of association/assembly, title ix and zoning to name some current and past efforts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Promotion and advocacy for the fraternal community:during the year, the organization supported challenging the multi-year suspension of a chapter by a school without due process. The organization launched the freedom of association institute in 2022. This pilot program teaches student members about freedom of association rights, and challenges to those rights on college campuses today. In 2023, the organization launched florida lobbying for freedom of association. The purpose of this program service is to monitor and influence pending executive and legislative branch discussions in florida about campus freedom of association rights for college students.the organization hosted a constitution event day at the university of maryland, where fraternity/sorority student rights have been under attack for more than a year. The event included, food, educational speakers, and some exercises to help student defend their constitutional rights to freedom of association. The organization has funded litigation against the university of maryland to oppose the school's unconstitutional infringement on freedom of association rights for fraternity and sorority students.
$352,368 spentof which $47,400 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $352,368.
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. 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 2019 to 2020, from $532k to $956k (+80%).
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.
93% of FRATERNITY AND SORORITY ACTION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Kevin O'Neill
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $37k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $71k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Panhellenic Conference Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FRATERNITY AND SORORITY ACTION FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of FRATERNITY AND SORORITY ACTION FUND’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
FRATERNITY AND SORORITY ACTION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
98% 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 FRATERNITY AND SORORITY ACTION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 71% · 2019 31% · 2020 45% · 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 59% — diversifying over time.
“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
0% of FRATERNITY AND SORORITY ACTION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
FRATERNITY AND SORORITY ACTION FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FRATERNITY AND SORORITY ACTION FUND has grown faster than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FRATERNITY AND SORORITY ACTION FUND
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fraternity and Sorority PAC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRATERNITY AND SORORITY ACTION FUND: 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 FRATERNITY AND SORORITY ACTION FUND?
- FRATERNITY AND SORORITY ACTION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $681,196 to it, the largest being KAPPA ALPHA THETA FRATERNITY INC ($160,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRATERNITY AND SORORITY ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $681,196 in grants to FRATERNITY AND SORORITY ACTION FUND, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRATERNITY AND SORORITY ACTION FUND?
- KAPPA ALPHA THETA FRATERNITY INC is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRATERNITY AND SORORITY ACTION FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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