North Carolina · Nonprofit
SIGMA SIGMA SIGMA FOUNDATION
SIGMA SIGMA SIGMA FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,324 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($20,776). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $89k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Sigma Sigma Sigma Foundation does
Mission
The tri sigma foundation secures and provides charitable resources to support educational leadership development, scholarship assistance, and philanthropic initiatives, including grants to charitable partners such as march of dimes and community health organizations. These initiatives primarily benefit women affiliated with sigma sigma sigma while advancing broader charitable purposes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Awarding merit-based and needs based academic scholarships to undergraduate and graduate women affiliated with sigma sigma sigma. Destination sigma: educational scholarships supporting participation in structured leadership development programming.
$127,796 spentof which $46,100 as grants26% of program spendingEstablished for the purpose of awarding grants supporting child life therapy and pediatric healthcare services through programmatic support provided through hospitals and community healthcare providers.
$73,728 spentof which $13,387 as grants15% of program spendingEstablished to provide structured educational leadership development programming designed to enhance personal, professional, and civic leadership skills for women.
$191,694 spentof which $93,780 as grants39% of program spendingMarch of dimes- the foundation has partnered with march of dimes for the year ended june 30, 2025. Sigma sigma sigma sorority collegiate and alumnae chapters participate in the collection of contributions on behalf of the march of dimes, and subsequent disbursements are made on behalf of the foundation to the march of dimes.diversity, equity and inclusion- the foundation established a community grant program providing funds to create educational programs allowing sorority members to take an active role in building an inclusive culture in their communities.
$98,305 spentof which $23,090 as grants20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $491,523.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $2.4M (+19%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 11%. 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 9 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.
Chief executive
Shelly Bateman
Executive director
Board chair
Jeanmarie Komyathy
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $16k → $11k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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: $662k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sigma Sigma Sigma Inc Group Return). These are real filings, and they are not money SIGMA SIGMA SIGMA FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of SIGMA SIGMA SIGMA FOUNDATION’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 SIGMA SIGMA FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
70% 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 SIGMA SIGMA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 95% · 2019 95% · 2020 81% · 2021 51% · 2022 36% · 2023 67% — growing more concentrated.
“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
23% of SIGMA SIGMA SIGMA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 26% 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
65% of SIGMA SIGMA SIGMA FOUNDATION'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 $32k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like SIGMA SIGMA SIGMA FOUNDATION
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
49% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SIGMA SIGMA SIGMA FOUNDATION: 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 SIGMA SIGMA SIGMA FOUNDATION?
- SIGMA SIGMA SIGMA FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,324 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($20,776). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SIGMA SIGMA SIGMA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $89,324 in grants to SIGMA SIGMA SIGMA FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIGMA SIGMA SIGMA FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,776 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIGMA SIGMA SIGMA FOUNDATION 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing