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EJK Foundation

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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$750k
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 FY2019–2024.

Environment$9.9MPhilanthropy$3.5MEducation$505kAnimals$147kHealth$10kArts & Culture$400
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $538k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST$750,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE$600,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC$500,000
PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CTR$153,379
PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING$100,000
PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CTR$85,000
ELKHORN MARINE CONSERVANCY INC$50,000
GALVESTON BAY FOUNDATION$50,000
WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY$25,000
THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC$25,000
NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST$24,984
NATURE CONSERVANCY$19,000
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON$15,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION$15,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CUENCA LOS OJOS: $150k → 19%Appalachian Mountain Club: $2.0M → 16%PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CTR: $153k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $22k → 10%ELKHORN MARINE CONSERVANCY: $57k → 14%TEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL: $50k → 10%GALVESTON BAY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%Coastal Prairie Conservancy: $47k → 16%THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $25k → 14%The Nature Conservancy of Florida: $500k → 11%Tall Timbers Research Inc: $134k → 19%ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST: $285k → 19%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $19k → 16%THE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 19%YALE SCHOOL OF THE ENVIRONMENT: $100k → 12%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $282k → 13%MADEIRA SCHOOL: $30k → 16%LINCOLN PARK ZOO: $60k → 14%NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $20k → 6%THE CONSERVATION FUND: $1.5M → 7%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AT JACKSONHOLE: $1.4M → 5%WYOMING STOCK GROWERS LAND TRUST: $20k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING: $100k → 17%NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST: $750k → 9%Our Climate Common: $40k → 9%FOREST SOCIETY OF MAINE: $1.3M → 15%ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CTR: $85k → 10%ELKHORN MARINE CONSERVANCY: $50k → 14%GALVESTON BAY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC: $500k → 19%The Trust for Public Land: $135k → 13%The Conservation Fund: $676k → 7%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOL: $775k → 5%NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST: $25k → 9%Trust for Public Land: $356k → 7%FOREST SOCIETY OF MAINE: $23k → 15%ELKHORN MARINE CONSERVANCY INC: $50k → 14%GALVESTON BAY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%COALITION FOR ENVIRONMENT EQUITY AND RESILIENCE: $15k → 16%PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC: $100k → 19%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOL: $750k → 5%Maine Mountain Collaborative: $250k → 7%GALVESTON BAY FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $600k → 5%MAINE AUDUBON: $23k → 7%MAINE AUDUBON SOCIETY: $11k → 7%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

ME
VT
MT
IL
NY
MA
WY
OH
CT
CA
VA
AZ
DC
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 14% of EJK 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.

EJK 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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.3M · 10 repeat orgs$6.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
23

Total granted

$5.3M
$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+39%

Still filing today

90%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsRecreation & SportsScience & TechHealthPublic BenefitOther

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

  • THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $2.2M · revenue +41%
  • FS
    Forest Society of Maine
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +35%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    2× · 2022–2023 · $773k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • Appalachian Mountain Club
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue -5%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AT JACKSONHOLE
    one grant, 2022 · $1.4M
  • TN
    The Nature Conservancy of Florida
    one grant, 2023 · $500k

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
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
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
Florida Conservation Group Inc

Mission is to seek protection of land and water resources through restoration and conservation; and conducting education and outreach on the ecological and economic importance of natural lands. we protect land from development and protect…

Environment
5
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc

Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…

Environment
6
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment
7
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
8
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
9
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
10
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
11
New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment
12
California Wildlife Foundation

The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Forest Foundation and the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. 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 backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Animal Rescue and ShelterCommunity FoundationsCommunity Foundations
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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%15%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%43%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,529

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

36 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. 36 of the 45 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
29/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $2,176,146 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONAppalachian Mountain Club — $2,000,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain ClubForest Society of Maine — $1,273,000 · EnvironmentForest Society of MaineNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION — $774,984 · EnvironmentNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATIONTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $773,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDPARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC — $600,000 · EnvironmentPARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC+12 more — $1,055,450 · Environment+12 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION AT JACKSONHOLE — $1,400,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION …The Nature Conservancy of Florida — $500,000 · OtherThe Nature Conservanc…UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING — $450,050 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WYOMINGElkhorn Marine Conservancy Inc — $157,400 · OtherElkhorn Marine Conser…+11 more — $171,500 · Other+11 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $2,125,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDAT…PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER — $238,379 · Public BenefitTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC — $134,180 · Science & TechLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $60,000 · AnimalsTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $25,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $20,000 · AnimalsAnimal Adoption Center Inc — $10,000 · AnimalsBOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB — $10,000 · AnimalsWILD BIRD FUND INC — $6,000 · Animals+1 more — $500 · AnimalsYale University — $100,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice University — $25,000 · Education
Environment$8,652,580Other$2,678,950Philanthropy$2,125,000Public Benefit$238,379Science & Tech$134,180Animals$131,500Education$125,000

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 budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $2,176,146 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $2,125,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $2,000,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetForest Society of Maine — $1,273,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION — $774,984 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $773,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC — $600,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $285,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMaine Mountain Collaborative — $259,950 over 2y, 43% of budgetPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER — $238,379 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetElkhorn Marine Conservancy Inc — $157,400 over 3y, 21% of budgetCUENCA LOS OJOS — $150,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc — $140,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC — $134,180 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYale University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCoastal Prairie Conservancy — $57,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMaine Audubon Society — $45,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetOUR CLIMATE COMMON — $40,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWYOMING STOCK GROWERS LAND TRUST — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $19,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR ENVIRONMENT EQUITY AND RESILIENCE — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAnimal Adoption Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILD BIRD FUND INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFlorida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH FLORIDA LAND TRUST INC — $500 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.

Community Foundation …National Fish and Wil…United States Endowme…The Nature ConservancyThe Knobloch Family F…Felburn FoundationFidelity FoundationLand Trust Alliance I…Elmina B Sewall Found…Maine Community Found…Ibm International Fou…T Rowe Price Program …
Community Foundation of Jackson HoleWY25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · United States Endowment for Forestry · The Nature Conservancy · The Knobloch Family Foundation · Felburn Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Land Trust Alliance Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc

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 EJK 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • North Florida Land Trust Inc — 81% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Tall Timbers Research Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Alachua Conservation Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 EJK Foundation?

Find your warmest path to EJK 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 45 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 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 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