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Ebert Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$288k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$597kArts & Culture$456kHealth$348kReligion$343kPhilanthropy$145kRecreation & Sports$96kHuman Services$76kPublic Benefit$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $185k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH$60,000
ANABAPTIST FOUNDATION$25,000
AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE$25,000
ORANGEWOOD CHURCH PCA$20,000
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION$20,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$20,000
THE ODYSSEY SCHOOL$20,000
Individual grant recipient$12,500
GREATER BALTIMORE TENNIS PATRONS$12,000
VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION$10,000
O'DWYER RETREAT HOUSE$10,000
WINTERTHUR MUSEUM$10,000
PSC PARTNERS SEEKING A CURE$5,000
WOOSTER COLLEGE$5,000
THE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%SIERRA DELTA: $11k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CO
MD
DE
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 32 repeat orgs$302k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
23

Total granted

$1.7M
$277k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+22%

Still filing today

53%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TO
    THE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $157k · revenue +91%
  • TE
    THE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $147k · revenue +159%
  • MH
    Mercy Health Foundation
    3× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • Conservative Partnership Institute
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -24%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • ME
    MELISSA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +36%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
Maryland Institute

Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.

Education
5
Marietta College

Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Van Alstyne Education Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts CentersElementary Literacy TutoringHealth Access Advocacy and …Local History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/41
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,524

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
26/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Winterthur Museum — $167,500 · OtherWinterthur MuseumFAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH INC — $150,000 · OtherFAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH INCOrangewood Church PCA — $97,000 · OtherOrangewood Church PCAGreater Baltimore Tennis Patrons — $72,000 · OtherGreater Baltimore Tennis PatronsPreservation Alliance of Baltimore — $65,000 · OtherPreservation Alliance of BaltimoreDUKE MEDICINE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE — $50,000 · OtherORANGEWOOD CHURCH — $41,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherWooster College — $35,000 · Other+21 more — $282,802 · Other+21 moreTHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC — $156,500 · EducationTHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INCAMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC — $75,000 · EducationAMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITU…HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $75,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $60,000 · EducationMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATEDConservative Partnership Institute — $50,000 · EducationConservative Partnership Ins…KENYON COLLEGE — $35,000 · EducationKENYON COLLEGEMELISSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationFIRST BOOK — $20,000 · Education+8 more — $69,500 · Education+8 moreTHE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC — $146,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ERIC CA…MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $35,000 · Arts & CultureMASSACHUSET…NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET H…FRACTURED ATLAS INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureAnabaptist Foundation — $125,000 · PhilanthropyAnabaptis…BLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · PhilanthropyBLUE ANGE…VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER…Mercy Health Foundation — $100,000 · HealthGREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $40,000 · HealthAmerican Liver Foundation — $5,000 · HealthWOODSON CENTER — $40,000 · Community ImprovementSIERRA DELTA INC — $11,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $5,000 · Human Services
Other$1,040,302Education$566,000Arts & Culture$216,500Philanthropy$190,000Health$145,000Community Improvement$40,000Human Services$16,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC — $156,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC — $146,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetAnabaptist Foundation — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Health Foundation — $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $75,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $60,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetGREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSON CENTER — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPSC PARTNERS SEEKING A CURE — $34,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMELISSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST BOOK — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BALTIMORE TENNIS PATRONS ASSOCIATION INC — $12,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSIERRA DELTA INC — $11,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMANNA HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLY GIVEN FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds THE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds THE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC
  • Who funds Anabaptist Foundation
  • Who funds Mercy Health Foundation
  • Who funds AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED
  • Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute
  • Who funds BLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds WOODSON CENTER
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds KENYON COLLEGE
  • Who funds PSC PARTNERS SEEKING A CURE
  • Who funds MELISSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds FIRST BOOK
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER
  • Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE TENNIS PATRONS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds SIERRA DELTA INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving IncMD16.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ebert Charitable Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Massachusetts Historical Society22% of income from government
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
  • The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Inc4% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc2% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association1% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • Greater Baltimore Medical Center Inc0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
  • Mcdonogh School Incorporated0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ebert Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ebert Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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