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Ehlermann-Fedderke Descendants Foundation at a glance

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Ehlermann-Fedderke Descendants Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$18k
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$774k
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUNY ONEONTA$18,071
SUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$16,000
UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO$15,539
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$10,000
IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF LONDON$8,000
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY$8,000
SUNY DELHI$8,000
HARTWICK COLLEGE$6,000
NORTHEAST COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES$5,000
SUNY UPSTATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC$5,000
D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY$4,000
ST ELIZABETH COLLEGE OF NURSING$4,000
VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$4,000
SUNY COBLESKILL$4,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC: $5k → 15%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 16%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%SUNY ONEONTA: $18k → 13%NORTHEAST COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $5k → 14%ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY &: $7k → 14%SUNY DELHI: $13k → 15%SUNY ONEONTA: $6k → 16%SUNT POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $5k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%SUNY CANTON: $5k → 18%EMBRO-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSIT: $6k → 12%BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: $8k → 8%SUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $16k → 8%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $8k → 10%LECOM ERIE: $5k → 15%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%SUNY MORRISVILLE: $8k → 11%HARTWICK COLLEGE: $11k → 13%NORTHEAST COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $5k → 14%SUNY DELHI: $11k → 15%ITHACA COLLEGE: $6k → 16%UTICA COLLEGE: $6k → 16%EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY: $6k → 12%SUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $12k → 8%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $6k → 10%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%SUNY MORRISVILLE: $5k → 11%SUNY ONEONTA: $10k → 13%SUNY UPSTATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%SUNY DELHI: $8k → 15%ITHACA COLLEGE: $6k → 16%ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%CLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $19k → 18%EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%SUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $7k → 8%SUNY ONEONTA: $6k → 13%SUNY UPSTATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%CLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $12k → 18%HARTWICK COLLEGE: $6k → 13%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%CLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO: $16k → 13%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO: $8k → 13%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

VT
NH
NY
MA
WY
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
UT
CO
VA
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$616k · 44 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
44

Total granted

$616k
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+16%

Still filing today

52%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

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

  • Cornell University
    4× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +50%
  • EA
    EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $20k · revenue +61%
  • MU
    MESSIAH UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • SC
    SUNY CANTON
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • SP
    SUNT POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
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
2
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
3
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
4
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
5
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
11
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
12
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 93 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
25/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUNY ONEONTA: $47,379 · OtherSUNY ONEONTASUNY DELHI: $39,000 · OtherSUNY DELHISUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $37,499 · OtherSUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEUNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO: $33,759 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF BUFFALOPENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $30,500 · OtherPENN STATE UNIVERSITYST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $16,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,500 · Other+52 more: $225,307 · Other+52 moreCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $49,452 · EducationCLARKSON UNIVERSITYCornell University: $22,000 · EducationCornell UniversityTrustees of Dartmouth College: $21,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth CollegeEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $20,000 · EducationEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INCMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $19,000 · EducationMESSIAH UNIVERSITYHartwick College: $16,500 · EducationUTICA UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · EducationD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY: $14,500 · EducationITHACA COLLEGE: $14,000 · Education+25 more: $136,559 · Education+25 more
Other$445,444Education$329,011

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $49,452 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHartwick College: $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUTICA UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWELLS COLLEGE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUGHTON UNIVERSITY: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLe Moyne College: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELMIRA COLLEGE: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew England College: $1,559 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKING'S COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Hartwick College ↗
  • Who funds ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UTICA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE ↗
  • Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WELLS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Le Moyne College ↗

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.

Gazin Norbert L Educa…National Collegiate A…JM McDonald Foundatio…Verizon FoundationIbm International Fou…The Donald F & Edna G…Jessie H Baker Educat…Central New York Comm…Ud O'Connor Education…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Enterprise Holdings F…The Blackbaud Giving …
Gazin Norbert L Education Pfdn 101-0628960OH20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gazin Norbert L Education Pfdn 101-0628960 · National Collegiate Athletic Association · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Donald F & Edna G Bishop Scholarship Foundation · Jessie H Baker Educational Fund · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Ud O'Connor Educational Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving 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 Ehlermann-Fedderke Descendants Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ehlermann-Fedderke Descendants Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report 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 93 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home