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The Grand Boule' of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity

The Grand Boule' of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity (Georgia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,500 to it, the largest being AARP ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.0M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$43k
Net assets
$3.5M
0/4 repeat funders
01What it does

What The Grand Boule' of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity does

Mission

The mission of the Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity is to provide charitable, literary and educational functions for like minded men to accomplish things not possible through individual effort.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Organization has supported its membership in the exempt purpose of providing charitable, literary and educational functions for like minded men to accomplish things not possible through individual effort.

    $1,600,143 spentof which $478,500 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,600,143.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($3.1M)2021 Revenue 134 ($3.1M) Expenses 86 ($1.9M) Net assets 138 ($4.2M)2022 Revenue 225 ($5.2M) Expenses 293 ($6.5M) Net assets 95 ($2.9M)2023 Revenue 113 ($2.6M) Expenses 89 ($2.0M) Net assets 116 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 304 ($7.0M) Expenses 369 ($8.2M) Net assets 77 ($2.4M)2025 Revenue 219 ($5.0M) Expenses 177 ($3.9M) Net assets 113 ($3.5M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (219)Expenses (177)Net assets (113)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 2020 to 2021, from $3.2M to $4.3M (+34%).

$3.2M
$4.3M
$3.3M
$4.1M
$3.4M
$4.3M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

87% of The Grand Boule' of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (0% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 928 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$77k
’20
$1.2M
’21
−$1.3M
’22
$639k
’23
−$1.2M
’24
$1.1M
’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.

Chief executive

Bennett Gaines

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed202015151515
Joined·+5+4+6+6+5
No longer listed·59665
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'24*
total
AARPnew
$25k
Xavier Universityunclassified
$8k
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of The Grand Boule' of Sigma Pi Phi 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

The Grand Boule' of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

88% 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 The Grand Boule' of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.

59%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

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

The Grand Boule' of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 4 states in all.

OH
KS
DC
GA

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

’17
’18
’19
Georgia 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

Against its field

The Grand Boule' of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity has grown faster than three-quarters of the 406 membership benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · above the median
Months of reserve8.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 406 membership benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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In Georgia

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05Profile & governance

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

Governance

14
board members
64%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Boule Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Grand Boule' of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity?
The Grand Boule' of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity (Georgia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,500 to it, the largest being AARP ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Grand Boule' of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $42,500 in grants to The Grand Boule' of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.
Who is the largest funder of The Grand Boule' of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity?
AARP is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Grand Boule' of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2020–2025), 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