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Ecmc Group Inc

Ecmc group, inc's mission is to help students succeed by creating, providing and investing in innovative educational opportunities.

$106M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$83M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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$705MPublic Benefit$28MEmployment$456kYouth Development$363kInternational$158kPhilanthropy$52kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kCommunity Improvement$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $154k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $244k
  • $250k+3 grants · $105M
$47,560
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ECMC FOUNDATION$82,935,000
EDUCATIONAL CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION$12,611,000
ECMC EDUCATION INC$9,600,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$193,700
REVE ACADEMY$50,000
CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL TWIN CITIES$48,750
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH$47,560
BESTPREP$25,500
JOBS FOR THE FUTURE$21,800
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SACRAMENTO INC$10,100
HIRED$7,750
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC$7,500
MATTER$5,100
READING PARTNERS TWIN CITIES$5,013
02The need
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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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JOBS FOR THE FUTURE: $22k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $218k → 11%Junior Achievement of the Upper Midwest Inc: $51k → 14%CRHS Sacramento Work Study Inc: $21k → 12%Coro Southern California: $100k → 14%ALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY: $100k → 14%CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $21k → 14%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY INC: $20k → 13%The Ohio State University Foundation: $100k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $194k → 11%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE UPPER MIDWEST INC: $20k → 14%CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC: $18k → 14%ZENITH EDUCATION GROUP INC: $145.0M → 11%ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%Zenith Education Group Inc: $134.0M → 11%ECMC FOUNDATION: $82.9M → 11%ECMC FOUNDATION: $58.5M → 11%ECMC FOUNDATION: $51.6M → 11%METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $26k → 14%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $107k → 14%ECMC Foundation: $46.7M → 11%MINNESOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $52k → 14%ECMC Education Inc (formerly Zenith Education Group Inc): $43.5M → 11%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $48k → 14%ECMC Foundation: $30.2M → 11%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $45k → 14%ECMC Education Inc: $29.8M → 11%Junior Achievement of the Upper Midwest Inc: $45k → 14%ECMC Education Inc: $26.6M → 11%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $45k → 14%ECMC EDUCATION INC: $26.3M → 11%ECMC EDUCATION INC: $19.0M → 11%EDUCATIONAL CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION: $15.2M → 11%EDUCATIONAL CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION: $12.6M → 11%ECMC EDUCATION INC: $9.6M → 11%Cristo Rey Corporate Internship: $76k → 11%CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL TWIN CITIES: $49k → 11%CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL TWIN CITIES: $48k → 11%CRISTO REY CORPORATE INTERNSHIP: $37k → 11%Cristo Rey Corporate Internship: $25k → 11%Cristo Rey Corporate Internship: $20k → 11%BESTPREP: $40k → 11%BESTPREP: $35k → 11%BestPrep: $26k → 11%BESTPREP: $26k → 11%BestPrep: $25k → 11%BESTPREP: $20k → 11%REVE ACADEMY: $50k → 11%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

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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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$733M · 14 repeat orgs$594k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$733M
$461k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+6%

Still filing today

93%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k 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
EducationInternationalPublic BenefitCivil RightsEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • EF
    ECMC FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $270M · revenue +76% · 100% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $758k · revenue +137%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $273k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • CS
    CORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +269%
  • AA
    ALBUQUERQUE ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +38%
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +6%

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
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
2
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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3
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
4
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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5
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
6
Columbia College

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

Education
7
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
8
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
9
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
10
Minnesota State Council On Economic Education

Mcee equips minnesotans with the economic and personal financial knowledge and skills to make informed decisions and thrive in our complex world. we fulfill our mission by teaching teachers through top quality professional development and…

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11
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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12
National Association for College Admission Counseling

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

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement North and the most unlike its peers is Crhs Sacramento Work Study Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr18%35%20–35yr12%35%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%59%10–20yr18%41%20–35yr12%0%35–55yr13%0%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/34
the rest of the field
15%
12,559/84,965

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

32 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. 32 of the 34 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
19/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ECMC EDUCATION INC — $433,783,534 · EducationECMC EDUCATION INCECMC FOUNDATION — $269,935,000 · EducationECMC FOUNDATION+7 more — $1,115,958 · EducationEDUCATIONAL CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION — $27,799,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $100,000 · Public BenefitCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL — $217,294 · OtherBESTPREP — $186,985 · OtherMINNESOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $52,000 · OtherREVE ACADEMY — $50,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL TWIN CITIES — $48,750 · Other+7 more — $83,584 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH — $272,645 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SACRAMENTO INC — $95,225 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $47,500 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY INC — $45,000 · InternationalJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc — $17,500 · InternationalJunior Achievement of Georgia — $17,500 · InternationalANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Civil RightsCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC — $21,000 · Civil RightsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $40,000 · Human ServicesJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC — $21,800 · EmploymentHIRED — $7,750 · Employment
Education$704,834,492Public Benefit$27,899,000Other$638,613International$495,370Civil Rights$46,000Human Services$40,000Employment$29,550

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 — $433,783,534 over 8y, 78% of budgetECMC FOUNDATION — $269,935,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetEDUCATIONAL CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION — $27,799,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $757,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH — $272,645 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetBESTPREP — $186,985 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $106,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SACRAMENTO INC — $95,225 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetMINNESOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $52,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREVE ACADEMY — $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $47,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $26,250 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC — $21,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC — $21,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRHS Sacramento Work Study Inc — $20,984 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc — $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJunior Achievement of Georgia — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $15,708 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS REGIONAL CHAMBER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMINNESOTA BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS DOWNTOWN COUNCIL — $8,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHIRED — $7,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMATTER — $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Ecmc FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Hb Fuller Company Fou…The Walser FoundationEducational Credit Ma…Wells Fargo FoundationOtto Bremer TrustThe Richard M Schulze…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Hubbard Broadcast…Fr Bigelow Foundation
Ecmc FoundationMN21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ecmc Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Hb Fuller Company Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Educational Credit Management Corporation · Wells Fargo Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Fr Bigelow 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 Group 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 34 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.

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