Loading…
· Private foundation
ECK FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$895k
Granted FY2024
10
Grants
7
Communities
$625k
Largest
01What you fund
0165% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Education$3.3MArts & Culture$85kCivil Rights$30kHealth$15kAnimals$10kInternational$10kOther$1.9M
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
habitat humanity
2019
habitat humanity
2020
habitat humanity
2021
habitat humanity
2022
—
2023
habitat humanity
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $625k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
- MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY$625,000
- LAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE UNIVERSITY$150,000
- AMERICAN RED CROSS$45,000
- EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$15,000
- PLANNED PARENTHOOD$15,000
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GRAND COUNTY$10,000
- CHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
- COLORADO HEADWATERS LAND TRUST$10,000
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
- ELMHURST ART MUSEUM$5,000
02The need
04
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 85% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.2M · 13 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
13
8
Total granted
$5.2M
$93k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+75%
+21%
Still filing today
62%
63%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationArts & CultureHealthCivil RightsInternationalAnimalsOther
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 UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +15%
- LCLAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2024 · $435k · revenue +75%
- CHCHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY7× · 2017–2024 · $395k · revenue +120%
Funded once
ALL-IN MILWAUKEEone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +20%
THE FOUNDATION FOR PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHYone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +25%- NLNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUNDone grant, 2021 · $15k
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
Beloit College
Beloit college is a residential, independent, national liberal arts college and wisconsin's oldest continuous institution of higher learning. the college is a national leader in delivering a rigorous, time-tested liberal arts experience…
Education
2
Columbia College Chicago
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Education
3
Illinois Institute of Technology
To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.
Education
4
Chicago Center for Urban Life and Culture
The chicago center for urban life and culture equips college students and other participants to learn from diverse urban communities through innovative programs, seminars, and internships. the chicago center expands the traditional…
Education
5
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, a not-for-profit corporation, is both a museum and an institution of higher education that exists to provide appreciation and education in visual fine arts and design.
Education
6
College of the Menominee Nation
To provide opportunities in higher education to its students as an institution of higher education chartered by the menominee people, the college infuses this education with american indian culture, preparing students for leadership,…
—
7
Habitat for Humanity of Michigan
To work with the economically disadvantaged to help them to create better places to live/work.
Housing & Shelter
8
University of Chicago
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
Education
9
Driehaus Design Initiative
Arts & Culture
10
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
To provide the world's best undergraduate education in engineering, mathematics, and science.
—
11
Illinois College
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher learning in the liberal arts.
Education
12
University of Denver
A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Headwaters Land Trust 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.
05the grantee network
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
13/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$3,260,000Other$1,860,500Arts & Culture$85,000Civil Rights$30,000Health$15,000Animals$10,000International$10,000
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 CHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds ELMHURST ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HEADWATERS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ALL-IN MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds SONORAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WOLF AND WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- 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.
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 364257107 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 17% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Eck Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Eck Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines