· Private foundation
Eck Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $35,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $15,000 |
| CHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GRAND COUNTY | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MUMarquette University9× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +46%
- LCLAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2025 · $585k · revenue +206%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches7× · 2017–2025 · $383k · revenue +46%
Funded once
ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +245%
The Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +224%
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -61%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Delivers affordable, accessible, and relevant higher education programs.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
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.
To restore water to colorado's rivers.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 22 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Marquette University ↗
- Who funds LAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ELMHURST ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HEADWATERS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GRAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE SONORAN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WOLF AND WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MALCOLM X MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Eck Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.