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Einstrong Foundation

TO HELP CLOSE THE WORLD WIDE LITERACY GAP BY PROVIDING FREE ACCESS TO READING AND NUMERACY CURRICULUM VIA ADULT LITERACY APPS.

$961k
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$643k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$671kInternational$364kEnvironment$138kHousing & Shelter$86kPhilanthropy$21k
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k39 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $187k
  • $250k+1 grant · $643k
$1,400
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$642,720
OMPRAKASH$186,538
FRIENDS INDEED (THE FID GROUP)$35,000
GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS IN SOUTH SUDA$28,045
CITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY$12,000
NEPAL RISING (DAAYITWA US)$5,537
Individual grant recipient$2,800
Individual grant recipient$2,800
Individual grant recipient$1,600
Individual grant recipient$1,600
Individual grant recipient$1,400
Individual grant recipient$1,400
Individual grant recipient$1,400
Individual grant recipient$1,400
Individual grant recipient$1,400
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 (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY: $12k → 11%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $106k → 17%NEPAL RISING (DAAYITWA US): $6k → 6%OMPRAKASH: $187k → 9%CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $21k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%OMPRAKASH: $91k → 9%OMPRAKASH: $81k → 9%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 16% of Einstrong Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Einstrong Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 28% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its field
05the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 46 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)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $642,720 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRIENDS INDEED (THE FID GROUP): $35,000 · OtherGRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS IN SOUTH SUDA: $28,045 · Other+38 more: $51,400 · Other+38 moreOMPRAKASH INC: $358,696 · PhilanthropyOMPRAKASH INCCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $20,860 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICATHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $126,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEE…CITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY: $12,000 · Public BenefitDAAYITWA US: $5,537 · International
Other$757,165Philanthropy$379,556Education$126,000Public Benefit$12,000International$5,537

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 budgetOMPRAKASH INC: $358,696 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $126,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $20,860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY: $12,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDAAYITWA US: $5,537 over 1y, 1.2% 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 OMPRAKASH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY ↗
  • Who funds DAAYITWA US ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Einstrong Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Einstrong Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
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    How do I get to Einstrong Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Einstrong 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 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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