California · Nonprofit
Zeta Sigma Lambda Foundation Inc
Zeta Sigma Lambda Foundation Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $700 to it, the largest being The Turner Dream Foundation ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Zeta Sigma Lambda Foundation Inc receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $700 to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Westminster Manor of San Diego Incshared funders
- Ahepa Affordable Housing Management Company Incportfolio match
- Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $200.
From the IRS filings of Zeta Sigma Lambda Foundation 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
Zeta Sigma Lambda Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 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 Zeta Sigma Lambda Foundation Inc's grant income comes from California 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.
- Westminster Manor of San Diego Incshared fundersCA · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- Ahepa Affordable Housing Management Company Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boule Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Delta Tau Delta Educational Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 100 Black Men of America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reach Higher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Tina and Calvin Tyler Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prosperity Denver Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Impact13 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- All Ways Up Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family 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 Zeta Sigma Lambda Foundation Inc
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Zeta Sigma Lambda Foundation Inc: 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 Zeta Sigma Lambda Foundation Inc?
- Zeta Sigma Lambda Foundation Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $700 to it, the largest being The Turner Dream Foundation ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Zeta Sigma Lambda Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $700 in grants to Zeta Sigma Lambda Foundation Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Zeta Sigma Lambda Foundation Inc?
- The Turner Dream Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Zeta Sigma Lambda Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2024–2025), 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing