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PHI SIGMA KAPPA FOUNDATION INC

PHI SIGMA KAPPA FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $491,940 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($203,424). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$723k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$492k
Net assets
$4.6M
13/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Phi Sigma Kappa Foundation Inc does

Mission

To promote educational, literary, and charitable purpose by promoting scholarships, student aid, and assistance to needy and deserving students, the development and fostering of the aims and purposes of the educational work of the national fraternity of phi sigma kappa and other charitable purposes as may be deemed from time to time by the foundation's trustees.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Scholarships to members of the grand chapter of phi sigma kappa, grants given to the grand chapter and grants given to individual chapters of the grand chapter.

    $283,688 spentof which $258,188 as grants$3,184 earned by the program
    97% of program spending
  2. Support to the grand chapter of phi sigma kappa publication (the signet)

    $10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants
    3% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $293,688.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($937k) Expenses 100 ($453k) Net assets 100 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 80 ($750k) Expenses 157 ($709k) Net assets 116 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 173 ($1.6M) Expenses 143 ($649k) Net assets 154 ($2.9M)2023 Revenue 98 ($918k) Expenses 134 ($609k) Net assets 171 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 127 ($1.2M) Expenses 182 ($825k) Net assets 207 ($3.9M)2025 Revenue 77 ($723k) Expenses 105 ($474k) Net assets 242 ($4.6M)
201720212022202320242025
Revenue (77)Expenses (105)Net assets (242)

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 $2.2M to $3.0M (+35%).

$1.9M
$2.2M
$3.0M
$3.3M
$4.0M
$4.6M
201720212022202320242025
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.

2017
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$484k
’17
$41k
’21
$969k
’22
$310k
’23
$361k
’24
$249k
’25
2.9
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

Joseph Kern

Exec dir/co

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

201720212022202320242025
Listed242830192018
Joined··+5+2+2+7
No longer listed··31319
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $6k → $73k.

9 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 SIGMA KAPPA FOUNDATION 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.

How concentrated its funding is

PHI SIGMA KAPPA FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

93% 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 SIGMA KAPPA FOUNDATION INC.

41%
largest funder
64%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 64% · 2019 29% · 2020 41% · 2021 59% · 2022 58% · 2023 49% — 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

46% of PHI SIGMA KAPPA FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

93% of PHI SIGMA KAPPA 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 $36k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside Indiana, across 9 states.

MI
NY
IN
NJ
CT
CA
KY
TN
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $456k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like PHI SIGMA KAPPA FOUNDATION INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 19%Fundraising 19%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

75%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds PHI SIGMA KAPPA FOUNDATION INC?
PHI SIGMA KAPPA FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $491,940 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($203,424). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PHI SIGMA KAPPA FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $491,940 in grants to PHI SIGMA KAPPA FOUNDATION INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PHI SIGMA KAPPA FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $203,424 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PHI SIGMA KAPPA FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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