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Educational Projects Foundation Inc at a glance

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Educational Projects Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$348k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
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 2024.

International$1.3MEnvironment$490kScience & Tech$202kPhilanthropy$97kMembership Benefit$85kEducation$71kHuman Services$60kHealth$42kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
USA FOR UNHCR (UN REFUGEE ORGANIZATION)$50,000
HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL$50,000
US FUND FOR UNICEF$50,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$50,000
EARTHJUSTICE$20,000
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN$10,000
LIFE FORCE IN LATER YEARS INC$10,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$10,000
GROW NYC$10,000
SOUL FIRE FARM$10,000
BARON HIRSCH CEMETARY ASSOCIATION INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC$5,000
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN$5,000
SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER & BOTANICAL GARDEN$5,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–24, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BLUE RIDER STABLES INC: $5k → 12%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%LIFE FORCE IN LATER YEARS INC: $10k → 17%LIFE FORCE IN LATER YEARS: $10k → 17%LIFE FORCE IN LATER YEARS INC: $10k → 17%LIFE FORCE IN LATER YEARS: $10k → 17%LIFE FORCE IN LATER YEARS INC: $10k → 17%LIFE FORCE IN LATER YEARS INC: $10k → 17%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

MN
NY
MA
SD
IN
NJ
RI
CA
VA
KS
DC
GA
FL
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.
$2.4M · 39 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
6

Total granted

$2.4M
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+52%

Still filing today

72%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
EnvironmentEducationInternationalHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    7× · 2018–2024 · $370k · revenue +47%
  • HT
    HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $325k · revenue +52%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $300k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • NN
    NAMI Nationalgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +543%
  • HH
    HUNTER'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +12%
  • LE
    LILLY ENDOWMENT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +149%
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
6
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment
7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
9
The Urban Land Institute

Shape the future of the built environment for transformative impact in communities worldwide. we are a global network of professionals in every sector of real estate development and land use, from private enterprise to public service.

Environment
10
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
11
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
12
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Queens Botanical Garden Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lilly Endowment Inc. 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

35 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. 35 of the 47 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
24/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $370,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $325,000 · InternationalHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INCInternational Rescue Committee INC: $300,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INCAVALON PARK AND PRESERVE: $200,000 · OtherAVALON PARK AND PRESERVEUSA FOR UNHCR (UN REFUGEE ORGANIZATION): $150,000 · OtherUSA FOR UNHCR (UN REFUGEE ORGANIZATIO…UNITED WAY OF LONG ISLAND: $85,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF LONG ISLANDBARON HIRSCH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC: $85,000 · OtherBARON HIRSCH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUSA FOR UNHCR DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT: $60,000 · OtherUSA FOR UNHCR DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENTSTONY BROOK UNIVERISTY ITALIAN STUDIES: $30,000 · Other+14 more: $137,000 · Other+14 moreEARTHJUSTICE: $200,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICENEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $70,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GAR…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $70,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE …HARLEM GROWN INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentHARLEM GROWN INCCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentSeatuck Environmental Association Inc: $16,000 · Environment+6 more: $67,000 · Environment+6 moreLifeforce in Later Years Inc: $60,000 · Human ServicesBLUE RIDER STABLES INC: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesROCKING THE BOAT INC: $25,000 · EducationSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · EducationEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK: $10,000 · EducationCEED - Center for Environmental Education and Discovery Inc: $4,000 · EducationCharlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project Inc: $2,000 · EducationNAMI National: $20,000 · HealthWINTERS CENTER FOR AUTISM: $5,000 · HealthUNITED STATES SAILING ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
International$995,000Other$822,000Environment$478,000Human Services$67,000Education$53,000Health$25,000Recreation & Sports$20,000

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 budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $370,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $325,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $300,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $200,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LONG ISLAND: $85,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBARON HIRSCH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC: $85,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLifeforce in Later Years Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetHARLEM GROWN INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetROCKING THE BOAT INC: $25,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED STATES SAILING ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI National: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeatuck Environmental Association Inc: $16,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetQUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHUNTER'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLILLY ENDOWMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTH MATTER NY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBIG INITIATIVES INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWINTERS CENTER FOR AUTISM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLUE RIDER STABLES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCEED - Center for Environmental Education and Discovery Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCharity Navigator: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOASTAL STEWARD INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.4% 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.

  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF LONG ISLAND ↗
  • Who funds BARON HIRSCH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Lifeforce in Later Years Inc ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM GROWN INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKING THE BOAT INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES SAILING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NAMI National ↗
  • Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Seatuck Environmental Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NDN COLLECTIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds HUNTER'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds EARTH MATTER NY INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG INITIATIVES INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds WINTERS CENTER FOR AUTISM ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDER STABLES INC ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Lily Auchincloss Foun…The Hyde and Watson F…Chubb Charitable Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Lily Auchincloss Foundation IncNY15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Educational Projects Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Educational Projects Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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