Virginia · Nonprofit
KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND
KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND (Virginia) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $984,598 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($199,169). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $985k
- Net assets
- $23M
What Kappa Sigma Endowment Fund does
Mission
Kappa Sigma Endowment Fund (the endowment fund) is a nonprofit organization formed to produce means available for beneficent and charitable purposes of kappa sigma fraternity (the fraternity). The endowment fund provides scholarships and other qualified educational programs for the fraternity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Student scholarships and grants: since 1948, the scholarship-leadership awards program has been the endowment fund's hallmark program. The total awarded through the program to outstanding kappa sigma student leaders is more than 8.0 million. The endowment fund is one of the preeminent greek foundations in its financial support to undergraduate members. During fy25, the endowment fund provided 72 merit-based scholarships, along with 25 scholarships that were provided as part of the dr. John w. Ryan leadership circle. In addition, the endowment fund administers and provides scholarship awards out of chapter designated investment accounts. During fy25, this chapter scholarship fund awarded 596 merit-based scholarships to outstanding student-leaders. During fy25, the endowment fund provided 7 grants through the military heroes campaign to organizations dedicated to assisting military veterans.
$666,671 spentof which $470,750 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $666,671.
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 2024 to 2025, from $20M to $23M (+17%).
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 9 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.
Board chair
Thomas P Bishop
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $8k → $165k.
14 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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: $1.6M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kappa Sigma Fraternity). These are real filings, and they are not money KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
75% 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 KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 58% · 2019 65% · 2020 36% · 2021 31% · 2022 28% · 2023 38% — 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
21% of KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
69% of KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND'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 $303k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 22 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $682k arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
44% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Scottsville Road Holdings LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND?
- KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND (Virginia) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $984,598 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($199,169). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $984,598 in grants to KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $199,169 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 44 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