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PHI ETA SIGMA NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY INC

PHI ETA SIGMA NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY INC (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $76 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($76). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$796k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$76
Net assets
$8.2M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society Inc does

Mission

To encourage and reward high scholastic achievement among first-year students in institutions of higher learning.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Encourage academic excellance by awarding scholarships to college student members who achieve high academic standards.

    $860,896 spentof which $299,000 as grants$554,202 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $860,896.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($930k) Expenses 100 ($723k) Net assets 100 ($7.6M)2019 Revenue 102 ($949k) Expenses 109 ($791k) Net assets 102 ($7.8M)2020 Revenue 184 ($1.7M) Expenses 117 ($846k) Net assets 100 ($7.6M)2021 Revenue 81 ($752k) Expenses 110 ($795k) Net assets 113 ($8.6M)2022 Revenue 90 ($836k) Expenses 103 ($745k) Net assets 101 ($7.7M)2023 Revenue 78 ($722k) Expenses 141 ($1.0M) Net assets 101 ($7.7M)2024 Revenue 83 ($769k) Expenses 158 ($1.1M) Net assets 103 ($7.8M)2025 Revenue 86 ($796k) Expenses 136 ($983k) Net assets 107 ($8.2M)
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Revenue (86)Expenses (136)Net assets (107)Peer revenue range

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 $7.7M to $8.7M (+12%).

$7.7M
$7.8M
$7.7M
$8.7M
$7.7M
$7.7M
$7.9M
$8.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of PHI ETA SIGMA NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$207k
’18
$158k
’19
$865k
’20
−$43k
’21
$91k
’22
−$301k
’23
−$375k
’24
−$186k
’25
9.8
months of
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

Mary Lee Caldwell

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

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Listed33121211121215
Joined·+0+10+0+4+6+0+4
No longer listed·0105501
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $13 → $21.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 PHI ETA SIGMA NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY INC’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.

Where its funders are

100% of PHI ETA SIGMA NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PHI ETA SIGMA NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY INC is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−23% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

74%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AL

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Questions and answers

Who funds PHI ETA SIGMA NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY INC?
PHI ETA SIGMA NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY INC (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $76 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($76). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PHI ETA SIGMA NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $76 in grants to PHI ETA SIGMA NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PHI ETA SIGMA NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY INC?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $76 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PHI ETA SIGMA NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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