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SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES INC

SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,525 to it, the largest being VILFORDI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,020). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$845k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$6.6M
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies Inc does

Mission

To advance all phases of music and to raise standards of music.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The organization provides scholarships and grants to promote musical development and growth among musical students.

    $267,817 spentof which $179,388 as grants$57,746 earned by the program
    74% of program spending
  2. The organization publishes a journal,"pan pipes", which facilitates communication and awareness among students of music.

    $92,789 spent
    26% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $360,606.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($314k) Net assets 100 ($3.3M)2018 Revenue 96 ($1.8M) Expenses 123 ($385k) Net assets 146 ($4.8M)2019 Revenue 34 ($648k) Expenses 131 ($412k) Net assets 157 ($5.2M)2020 Revenue 12 ($233k) Expenses 100 ($314k) Net assets 156 ($5.1M)2021 Revenue 33 ($615k) Expenses 111 ($349k) Net assets 182 ($6.0M)2022 Revenue 28 ($518k) Expenses 106 ($333k) Net assets 162 ($5.3M)2023 Revenue 33 ($619k) Expenses 156 ($489k) Net assets 173 ($5.7M)2024 Revenue 42 ($780k) Expenses 121 ($378k) Net assets 187 ($6.1M)2025 Revenue 45 ($845k) Expenses 166 ($521k) Net assets 200 ($6.6M)
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Revenue (45)Expenses (166)Net assets (200)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 2017 to 2018, from $3.7M to $4.8M (+32%).

$3.7M
$4.8M
$5.2M
$5.2M
$6.0M
$5.4M
$5.7M
$6.2M
$6.6M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

29% of SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.6M
’17
$1.4M
’18
$236k
’19
−$81k
’20
$266k
’21
$184k
’22
$130k
’23
$402k
’24
$324k
’25
8.7
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.

Board chair

Tracey Wygal Withrow

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed101299999910
Joined·+3+0+2+0+0+5+0+1
No longer listed·13200500
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $250 → $580.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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: $240k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity). These are real filings, and they are not money SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES INC raised.

From the IRS filings of SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES 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

SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

41% 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 SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES INC.

46%
largest funder
95%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states in all.

NY
NJ
NC

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

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’21
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3k 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

SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−10% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES 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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 31%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

53%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES INC?
SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,525 to it, the largest being VILFORDI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,020). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $6,525 in grants to SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES INC?
VILFORDI FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 4 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