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Eck Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$280k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.9MHousing & Shelter$865kPublic Safety & Disaster$383kHealth$108kEnvironment$90kArts & Culture$85kInternational$50kHuman Services$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE UNIVERSITY$150,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$35,000
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY$35,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$15,000
ADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND$15,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GRAND COUNTY$10,000
CHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $45k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $35k → 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
WI
NY
IA
CO
NE
MO
MD
AZ
DC
AL
GA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 13 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$5.4M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+224%

Still filing today

77%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCivil RightsInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • MU
    Marquette University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +46%
  • LC
    LAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $585k · revenue +206%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    7× · 2017–2025 · $383k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +245%
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -61%
  • The Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +224%
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
Saint Xavier University

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…

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
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
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Claremont Lincoln University

Delivers affordable, accessible, and relevant higher education programs.

Education
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
7
World Resources Institute

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…

International
8
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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9
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

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
Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment
12
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Marquette University: $3,247,500 · EducationMarquette University+3 more: $47,500 · EducationLAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE UNIVERSITY: $585,000 · OtherLAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE UNIVER…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $420,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYCHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $405,000 · OtherCHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITYPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $87,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODCOLORADO HEADWATERS LAND TRUST: $70,000 · Other+5 more: $70,000 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $383,000 · Human ServicesELMHURST ART MUSEUM: $85,000 · Arts & CultureCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $50,000 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · InternationalEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $30,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $15,000 · Civil RightsADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 · Civil RightsHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GRAND COUNTY: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$3,295,000Other$1,637,500Human Services$383,000Arts & Culture$85,000International$60,000Civil Rights$60,000Housing & Shelter$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarquette University: $3,247,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE UNIVERSITY: $585,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $383,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetELMHURST ART MUSEUM: $85,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetCOLORADO HEADWATERS LAND TRUST: $70,000 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GRAND COUNTY: $30,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetTHE SONORAN INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO WOLF AND WILDLIFE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMALCOLM X MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 6.3% 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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Eck Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eck Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 22 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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