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Ekedahl Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$365k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$325k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$639kReligion$82kEducation$60kYouth Development$47kEnvironment$45kRecreation & Sports$38kHuman Services$30kInternational$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $250k+1 grant · $325k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMORY MATTERS$325,000
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$20,000
HOPEFUL HORIZONS$10,000
THE CHILDREN'S CENTER$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HILTON HEAD$5,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $477k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MEMORY MATTERS: $325k → 10%MEMORY MATTERS: $50k → 10%MEMORY MATTERS: $32k → 10%MEMORY MATTERS: $15k → 10%MEMORY MATTERS: $15k → 10%SECOND HELPINGS: $10k → 10%SECOND HELPINGS: $5k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 10%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$960k · 13 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$960k
$15k

Still filing today

69%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationInternationalPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • MM
    MEMORY MATTERS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $534k · revenue +48%
  • TV
    THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +52%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $47k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • KS
    KNOBIT SANTE CAP HAITIEN HEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT
    one grant, 2022 · $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
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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2
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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3
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
4
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health
5
Beyond Housing

We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…

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6
Conway Hospital Community Services

Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.

Health
7
Charleston Habitat for Humanity Inc

Charleston Habitat for Humanitys (CHFH) vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Seeking to put God's love into action, Charleston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. By…

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8
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

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9
The Bladen County Hospital Foundation

The mission of the bladen county hospital foundation is to serve the community by building awareness and philanthropic support for bladen county hospital as it provides compassionate, quality healthcare for all its patients.

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10
Carolina Meadows Foundation Inc

To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.

Human Services
11
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
12
Children's Trust of South Carolina

To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Second Helpings. 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

11 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. 11 of the 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEMORY MATTERS: $534,000 · Human ServicesMEMORY MATTERSTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC: $95,000 · OtherTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CL…FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $72,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC: $47,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOW…SC GOVERNER'S SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherSC GOVERNER'S SCHOOLKNOBIT SANTE CAP HAITIEN HEALTH: $10,000 · Other+3 more: $14,000 · Other+3 moreHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $38,402 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $10,000 · PhilanthropyHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentBucknell University: $40,000 · EducationBUILDON INC: $20,000 · InternationalHOPEFUL HORIZONS: $10,000 · Religion
Human Services$574,000Other$258,000Philanthropy$48,402Environment$45,000Education$40,000International$20,000Religion$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEMORY MATTERS: $534,000 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC: $95,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC: $47,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBucknell University: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $38,402 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBUILDON INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS: $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 MEMORY MATTERS ↗
  • Who funds THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Bucknell University ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDON INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HELPINGS ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
  • Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Berkeley Hall Cha…Wexford FoundationThe Bargain BoxHeritage Classic Foun…Coastal Community Fou…Breedlove Foundation …David W Ellis Family …Palmetto Electric Tru…The Church Mouse Thri…The Community Foundat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…
Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation · Wexford Foundation · The Bargain Box · Heritage Classic Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Breedlove Foundation Im 020120186528 · David W Ellis Family Foundation · Palmetto Electric Trust · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 17 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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