Illinois · Nonprofit
Sigma Chi Leadership Institute
Sigma Chi Leadership Institute (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,724,766 to it, the largest being Risk Management Foundation ($1,710,230). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Sigma Chi Leadership Institute's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Cargill Foundationshared funders
- Charles H Boyle Foundation Incportfolio match
- Charles M Bauervic Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of Sigma Chi Leadership Institute’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $52k → $251k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $25M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sigma Chi Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Sigma Chi Leadership Institute raised.
From the IRS filings of Sigma Chi Leadership Institute’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 Chi Leadership Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 Chi Leadership Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 94% · 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
99% of Sigma Chi Leadership Institute's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Cargill Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
- Charles H Boyle Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles M Bauervic Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Entertainment Software Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Katharine Audrey Webb Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stand Together Chamber of Commerce Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McDonald Agape Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Acumen Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hilda E Bretzlaff Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thames Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bartley J Madden Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- C Charles Jackson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Sigma Chi Leadership Institute
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 3 related entities
- Acorn Leadership Institute LLC · disregarded
- Sigma Chi International Fraternity Inc · exempt
- Acorn Leadership Consulting Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sigma Chi Leadership Institute: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Sigma Chi Leadership Institute?
- Sigma Chi Leadership Institute (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,724,766 to it, the largest being Risk Management Foundation ($1,710,230). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sigma Chi Leadership Institute have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,724,766 in grants to Sigma Chi Leadership Institute, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sigma Chi Leadership Institute?
- Risk Management Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,710,230 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sigma Chi Leadership Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing