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Ecmc Foundation

ECMC FOUNDATION is a nationally focused foundation whose mission is to improve higher education for career success among underserved populations through evidence-based innovation.

$61M
Granted FY2024still arriving
198
Grants FY2024still arriving
33
States reached
$3.4M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$207MEmployment$83MYouth Development$9.9MPublic Benefit$9.9MCommunity Improvement$7.7MSocial Science$5.6MPhilanthropy$5.4MHuman Services$2.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 198 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k102 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+68 grants · $56M
$30,000
Median grant
33
States reached
$2.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION$3,449,045
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$3,041,177
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,001,043
EDUCATIONAL CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION$2,000,000
SOUTHERN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$2,000,000
WESTED$1,940,077
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PARTNERSHIPS IN EQUITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$1,840,000
JOBS FOR THE FUTURE$1,575,000
ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRUSTEES$1,500,000
THE INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY$1,452,155
ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC AND LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITIES (APLU)$1,363,504
AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION$1,250,000
GROWING INLAND ACHIEVEMENT INC$1,035,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATORS INC$1,000,000
ECMC GROUP INC$1,000,000
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 (FY17–24, $7.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PARTNERSHIPS IN EQUITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1.8M → 6%National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE) Education Foundation: $756k → 9%Golden Generations Inc: $25k → 12%Detroit Recovery Project Inc: $25k → 21%Operation Restoration: $65k → 23%UNITED RECOVERY FUND: $25k → 7%PROSPERITYME: $30k → 13%National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE) Education Foundation: $160k → 9%SUPPORTING THE TAYLOR HOUSE INC: $30k → 6%Downtown Women's Center: $25k → 14%Mi Casa Resource Center: $150k → 12%Indiana Youth Group: $25k → 16%SUPPORTING THE TAYLOR HOUSE INC: $30k → 6%Catholic Charities Fort Worth: $550k → 11%Operation Restoration: $160k → 23%The Taylor House: $25k → 6%A Kid's Place of Tampa Bay: $25k → 13%MOMS ON A MISSION: $30k → 10%Supporting The Taylor House Inc: $25k → 6%John Jay College Foundation: $646k → 17%New Moms Inc: $500k → 14%MOMS ON A MISSION: $30k → 10%Metropolitan Ministries: $25k → 13%Child Care Answers: $25k → 16%MOMS ON A MISSION: $30k → 10%Austin Area Urban League Inc: $25k → 10%FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $25k → 16%FUTURE LINK INC: $200k → 8%Outside the Box: $25k → 16%Indiana Youth Group: $25k → 16%RAISE THE BARR: $100k → 14%OPPORTUNITY AMERICA EDUCATIONAL FUND: $75k → 14%The PourHouse Inc: $25k → 16%Hallie Q Brown Community Center: $50k → 14%Hallie Q Brown Community Center: $35k → 14%Autism Shifts: $25k → 13%Sacramento Loaves & Fishes: $25k → 12%Sacramento Loaves & Fishes: $25k → 12%Wilder Child Development CenterAmherst H Wilder Foundation: $25k → 14%Four Paws to Freedom: $25k → 12%Young Men's Christian Association of the North: $33k → 11%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $160k → 14%Proyecto Pastoral on behalf of Promesa Boyle Heights: $25k → 14%Swipe Out Hunger: $350k → 14%Swipe Out Hunger: $50k → 14%East Side Neighborhood Services: $30k → 11%Fostering Media Connections: $70k → 14%Fostering Media Connections: $70k → 14%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

AK
ME
VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
AL
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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of Ecmc Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 13% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Ecmc Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$245M · 307 repeat orgs$80M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

307 repeat relationships — 126 still active in FY2024, 181 since wound down; 62 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

307
442

Total granted

$245M
$61M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+30%

Still filing today

90%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19M 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
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

  • EG
    ECMC GROUP INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $13M · revenue +39%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $12M · revenue +15%
  • SH
    STATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $6.9M · revenue +46% · 51% of their budget

Funded once

  • NT
    New Tech Network
    one grant, 2017 · $2.6M
  • CO
    COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY
    one grant, 2023 · $1.6M
  • THE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue -24%

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.

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Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
2
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
3
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
4
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
5
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
6
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—
7
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
8
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
9
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
10
National Association of College and University Attorneys

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

—
11
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
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 Grantmakers for Education and the most unlike its peers is Colorado River Historical Society 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 backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsCommunity FoundationsMilitary Veterans SupportImmigrant Worker SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsAffordable Housing Developm…Food Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Pregnancy Support ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Youth Development ServicesSchool District FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Mentoring ProgramsYouth Sports ProgramsFaith-Based Social ServicesYouth Development CentersDomestic Violence ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportYmca Youth DevelopmentSchool Parent OrganizationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Equine Therapy ProgramsElementary Literacy TutoringCommunity Arts CentersCancer Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Animal Rescue and ShelterChristian Youth CampsUnited Way AffiliatesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community College Foundatio…
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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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%15/839
the rest of the field
13%
240,382/1,818,726

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.

05the grantee network

695 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. 695 of the 839 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.

56
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
157
Early backer (in before they grew)
676/695
Grantees still filing
492/695
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ECMC EDUCATION INC — $21,265,259 · EducationECMC EDUCATION INCECMC GROUP INC — $13,004,000 · EducationECMC GROUP INCUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $6,133,910 · Education+97 more — $101,251,624 · Education+97 moreCITY YEAR INC — $11,936,550 · OtherCITY YEAR INCSTATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION — $6,880,838 · OtherSTATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OF…INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS — $4,304,043 · OtherNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION — $3,509,000 · OtherNATIONAL CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $3,497,937 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITY — $3,492,133 · Other+60 more — $58,187,306 · Other+60 moreEDUCATIONAL CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION — $13,414,577 · Public BenefitThe Rand Corporation — $1,538,144 · Public BenefitTHIRD SECTOR CAPITAL PARTNERS INC — $1,325,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS EDUCATION SUCCESS INC — $1,050,000 · Public BenefitWORKCRED INC — $758,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $527,002 · Public BenefitTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $4,710,000 · Social ScienceTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $4,517,500 · Social ScienceTHE INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY — $3,742,155 · Social ScienceITHAKA HARBORS INC — $2,275,295 · Social Science+1 more — $493,560 · Social ScienceSEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC — $3,055,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $1,750,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $1,235,000 · PhilanthropyLA-TECH ORG — $1,050,000 · PhilanthropyVENN FOUNDATION — $911,504 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND — $727,600 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $675,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $570,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $535,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $475,000 · PhilanthropyJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC — $5,302,940 · EmploymentMDRC — $1,445,000 · EmploymentWOMEN EMPLOYED — $1,242,000 · EmploymentSEATTLE JOBS INITIATIVE — $760,000 · EmploymentGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC — $741,954 · EmploymentHOUSTON'S CAPITAL INVESTING IN DEVELOP- MENT AND EMPLOYMENT OF ADULTS INC — $660,000 · EmploymentLIFT INC — $660,000 · EmploymentTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $1,760,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $1,172,808 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL SKILLS COALITION — $1,075,000 · Community ImprovementThe Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona — $760,000 · Community ImprovementJUST-A-START CORPORATION — $511,053 · Community ImprovementMISSION ASSET FUND — $500,000 · Community Improvement
Education$141,654,793Other$91,807,807Public Benefit$18,612,723Social Science$15,738,510Philanthropy$10,984,104Employment$10,811,894Community Improvement$5,778,861

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetECMC EDUCATION INC — $21,265,259 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetEDUCATIONAL CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION — $13,414,577 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetECMC GROUP INC — $13,004,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $11,936,550 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetSTATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION — $6,880,838 over 5y, 51% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $6,133,910 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC — $5,302,940 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $4,710,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $4,517,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS — $4,304,043 over 5y, 23% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY — $3,742,155 over 4y, 38% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION (ACTE) — $3,595,787 over 5y, 26% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $3,573,051 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION — $3,509,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetNATIONAL CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $3,497,937 over 5y, 71% of budgetSEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC — $3,055,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $3,051,125 over 4y, 23% of budgetNational Alliance for Partnerships In Equity Education Foundation Inc — $2,755,500 over 3y, 80% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION — $2,723,773 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetEXCELENCIA IN EDUCATION INC — $2,503,145 over 6y, 32% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMPETES — $2,465,000 over 3y, 69% of budgetACHIEVING THE DREAM INC — $2,422,859 over 7y, 10% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $2,352,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetITHAKA HARBORS INC — $2,275,295 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetEDUCATION DESIGN LAB — $2,003,936 over 3y, 65% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc — $2,001,043 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSOUTHERN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBUCK INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION — $1,943,904 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,849,920 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES — $1,777,390 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $1,760,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $1,750,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPUBLIC AGENDA INC — $1,740,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetJOHN N GARDNER INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION — $1,735,000 over 3y, 47% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $1,672,500 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetComplete College America Inc — $1,574,400 over 2y, 15% of budgetThe Rand Corporation — $1,538,144 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,500,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE — $1,500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,474,967 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC — $1,465,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetMDRC — $1,445,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE BACCALAUREATE ASSOCIATION INC — $1,414,179 over 3y, 99% of budgetGROWING INLAND ACHIEVEMENT — $1,410,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetUASPIRE INC — $1,367,506 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC AND LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITIES — $1,363,504 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetONE MILLION DEGREES — $1,357,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR EVIDENCE-BASED CHANGE — $1,347,975 over 2y, 39% 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.

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.

Lumina Foundation for…Ascendium Education S…College Futures Found…Gates FoundationStrada Education Foun…Educational Credit Ma…The Kresge FoundationMichael & Susan Dell …The Michelson 20mm Fo…Carnegie Corporation …Fr Bigelow FoundationThe Eli and Edythe Br…
Lumina Foundation for Education IncIN96.3× affinity94 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · College Futures Foundation · Gates Foundation · Strada Education Foundation Inc · Educational Credit Management Corporation · The Kresge Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · The Michelson 20mm Foundation Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad 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 Ecmc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Center On Rural Innovation Inc — 37% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
  • Third Sector Capital Partners Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Just-a-Start Corporation — 16% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Southern Scholarship Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Campus Compact — 1% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Achieving the Dream Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
35report 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

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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ecmc Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ecmc Foundation 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 839 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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