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East Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$81kReligion$21kHousing & Shelter$21kFood & Nutrition$14kEducation$7kHealth$5kCommunity Improvement$2kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
$789
Median grant
4
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PURCHASES FOR INDIVIDUALS UNDER 100$19,283
LEBANON MATTHEW 2540 MINISTRIES$3,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES$3,000
R3 DEVELOPMENT NFP$3,000
HYDE PARK VINEYARD CHURCH$2,500
COMMUNITY INTERFAITH PANTRY$1,000
BELLEVILLE DISTRICT #118 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION LTD$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$789
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$775
ECOSYSTEMS OF CARE$750
OPERATION HOMEFRONT$750
Individual grant recipient$521
HYDE PARK REFUGEE PROJECT$515
PREGNANCY CARE CENTER$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HYDE PARK REFUGEE PROJECT: $515 → 14%HYDE PARK REFUGEE PROJECT: $500 → 14%HYDE PARK REFUGEE PROJECT: $2k → 14%HYDE PARK REFUGEE PROJECT: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
CA
MO
KY
TN
HI
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$121k · 15 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
19

Total granted

$121k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+16%

Still filing today

47%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHealthCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • RD
    R3 DEVELOPMENT NFP
    5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +61%
  • OH
    OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +42%
  • CI
    COMMUNITY INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF CHARLOTTE
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • ST
    ST THERESA CATHOLIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • DO
    DIOCESE OF OWENSBORO
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Illinois Public Action to Deliver Shelter

Provide emergency food and shelter

Housing & Shelter
2
Just Food Initiative of the Fox Valley
Food & Nutrition
3
Chicago Hope Inc

Chicago Hope runs a food pantry twice a week that serves over 100 families. The organization is working toward the furtherance of wrap around services.

Human Services
4
Geneseo-Atkinson Food Pantry

The Christian mission of the Geneseo-Atkinson food Pantry is to provide food, clothing, and short-term emergency assistance for families and individuals residing in Geneseo (61254) or Atkinson (61235) zip code areas.

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5
Sun Prairie Emergency Food Pantry Inc

Provide food & personal care items to families in need.

—
6
Northern Il Helping Hands Food Pantry Nfp

To provide at least 2 days of food to needy families and people.

Food & Nutrition
7
Illinois Community Health Foundation Inc
—
8
St Louis Area Food Bank Inc

St. louis area foodbank is building a stronger bi-state region by nourishing people, empowering communities, and transforming systems.

—
9
Gods Pantry of Pulaski County Inc

A group comprised of individuals, church groups, civic organizations, and city and county officials joining together their efforts to provide Pulaski County residents food in emergency situations.

—
10
Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry Inc

To serve the nutritional needs of children, the elderly, low income residents and the disabled in the Kane County area of Illinois.

Human Services
11
Turpin Cares Nfp

To provide help to the homeless and nearly homeless

Human Services
12
Students Run Chicago
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Interfaith Food Pantry; the most unlike its peers is Life Network of Southern Illinois. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PURCHASES FOR INDIVIDUALS UNDER 100: $61,759 · OtherPURCHASES FOR INDIVIDUALS UNDER 100HYDE PARK VINEYARD CHURCH: $7,750 · OtherHYDE PARK VINEYARD CHURCHCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF CHARLOTTE: $6,182 · OtherST THERESA CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF OWENSBORO: $5,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherPREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $4,300 · Other+23 more: $22,767 · Other+23 moreR3 DEVELOPMENT NFP: $19,000 · Housing & ShelterR3 DEVELOPMEN…GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $3,289 · Food & NutritionLEBANON MATTHEW 25 40 MINISTRIES: $3,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionEcosystems of Care: $750 · Food & NutritionOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $4,250 · Community ImprovementWEST END COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $1,500 · Community ImprovementHyde Park Refugee Project: $4,715 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $3,500 · ReligionGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $1,775 · Philanthropy
Other$117,758Housing & Shelter$19,000Food & Nutrition$9,039Community Improvement$5,750Human Services$4,715Religion$3,500Philanthropy$1,775

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetR3 DEVELOPMENT NFP: $19,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetHyde Park Refugee Project: $4,715 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $4,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $3,289 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON MATTHEW 25 40 MINISTRIES: $3,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $1,775 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST END COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $1,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBELLEVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT 118 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION LTD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHyde Park Youth Symphony Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLife Network of Southern Illinois: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $446 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds R3 DEVELOPMENT NFP ↗
  • Who funds Hyde Park Refugee Project ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds LEBANON MATTHEW 25 40 MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WEST END COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds BELLEVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT 118 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION LTD ↗
  • Who funds Ecosystems of Care ↗
  • Who funds Hyde Park Youth Symphony Inc ↗
  • Who funds Life Network of Southern Illinois ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds KARLA SMITH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC6.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization East Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from East Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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