Georgia · Nonprofit
PHI MU FOUNDATION INC
PHI MU FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $634,640 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($167,583). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $635k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Phi Mu Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of phi mu foundation is the lifetime development of women through the support of phi mu's leadership, scholarship, philanthropic, educational programs, and historic preservation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Academic scholarships/member assistance/leadership programs: the foundation awards more than 100 graduate and undergraduate scholarships each academic year. Most scholarships are unrestricted, but some have been established for a particular chapter, field of study, state of residence or college. There are both merit and financial need based scholarships. In addition, the foundation is proud to provide emergency grants for collegiate and alumnae members who experience financial distress due to natural disasters, medical emergencies, or other severe personal or family issues. To further support the mission of educational and leadership initiatives, the foundation awards grants to phi mu fraternity for the development of premier, values-based programming such as greek life edu, phi mu leadership institute, and the chapter consultant program.
$1,195,195 spentof which $772,086 as grants$2,906,339 earned by the program100% of program spendingHistoric preservation: the foundation maintains, preserves, and promotes phi mu's history in the archives and museum located in the national headquarters in peachtree city, georgia which displays such items as the president's chair from the philomathean hall at wesleyan college, original badges, and a textile collection of past national presidents dresses.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,195,195.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $13M to $11M (−14%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Lynn Storlien-Mcgraw
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $5k → $210k.
16 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 MU FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
PHI MU FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
82% 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 PHI MU FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 87% · 2019 62% · 2020 45% · 2021 58% · 2022 25% · 2023 24% — 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
33% of PHI MU FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
82% of PHI MU FOUNDATION 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. Of the $112k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $522k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Government funding PHI MU FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $189 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $189
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PHI MU FOUNDATION INC
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Phi Mu Fraternity Inc · exempt
- Phi Mu Real Estate Holding Company · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PHI MU FOUNDATION INC: 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 PHI MU FOUNDATION INC?
- PHI MU FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $634,640 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($167,583). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PHI MU FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $634,640 in grants to PHI MU FOUNDATION INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHI MU FOUNDATION INC?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $167,583 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHI MU FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 31 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