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SIGMA PHI EPSILON FRATERNITY

SIGMA PHI EPSILON FRATERNITY (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,738,571 to it, the largest being SIGMA PHI EPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ($4,732,244). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$11M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$4.7M
Net assets
$29M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity does

Mission

Sigma phi epsilon's purpose is to foster friendship, build balanced leaders and develop the bonds of fraternal brotherhood in its members.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. National membership fraternity of college students and alumni; 190 chapters and approximately 366,000 members and alumni.

  2. Under the single member llc, senh provides loans, including collecting interest, to alumni volunteer corporations for houses that our local chapters live in. In addition, provide management for 11 chapter houses, including collecting rents and paying expenses for each of these houses.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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 ($9.1M) Expenses 100 ($8.4M) Net assets 100 ($21M)2018 Revenue 111 ($10M) Expenses 119 ($10M) Net assets 115 ($24M)2019 Revenue 121 ($11M) Expenses 144 ($12M) Net assets 110 ($23M)2020 Revenue 115 ($10M) Expenses 144 ($12M) Net assets 101 ($21M)2021 Revenue 87 ($7.9M) Expenses 94 ($8.0M) Net assets 110 ($23M)2022 Revenue 113 ($10M) Expenses 102 ($8.6M) Net assets 116 ($24M)2023 Revenue 92 ($8.3M) Expenses 90 ($7.6M) Net assets 121 ($25M)2024 Revenue 80 ($7.2M) Expenses 87 ($7.4M) Net assets 123 ($25M)2025 Revenue 117 ($11M) Expenses 88 ($7.5M) Net assets 142 ($29M)
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Revenue (117)Expenses (88)Net assets (142)

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 $70M to $54M (−23%).

$60M
$71M
$68M
$63M
$70M
$54M
$54M
$57M
$61M
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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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$645k
’17
$84k
’18
−$1.2M
’19
−$1.7M
’20
−$79k
’21
$1.7M
’22
$771k
’23
−$127k
’24
$3.2M
’25
13
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

Brian C Warren Jr

Chief executive officer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed161513151515131414
Joined·+1+0+5+0+5+0+7+1
No longer listed·22305261
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $882k → $3.0M.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1

From the IRS filings of SIGMA PHI EPSILON FRATERNITY’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 PHI EPSILON FRATERNITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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

100% 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 PHI EPSILON FRATERNITY.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 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

100% of SIGMA PHI EPSILON FRATERNITY's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

CA
VA

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

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’18
’19
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SIGMA PHI EPSILON FRATERNITY

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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Sig Ep National Housing LLC · disregarded
  • Sigep Lead Fund · exempt
  • Sigma Phi Epsilon Educational Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SIGMA PHI EPSILON FRATERNITY?
SIGMA PHI EPSILON FRATERNITY (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,738,571 to it, the largest being SIGMA PHI EPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ($4,732,244). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SIGMA PHI EPSILON FRATERNITY have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $4,738,571 in grants to SIGMA PHI EPSILON FRATERNITY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SIGMA PHI EPSILON FRATERNITY?
SIGMA PHI EPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,732,244 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SIGMA PHI EPSILON FRATERNITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2 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