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Employee Ownership Expansion Network
The mission of the EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP EXPANSION NETWORK is to significantly expand employee ownership in the united states through establishing and supporting a network of independent nonprofit state centers for employee ownership.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $680,680 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $816,295 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $135,615 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $312k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHIGAN CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP | $136,500 |
| ILLINOIS CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP | $60,567 |
| TENNESSEE CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP | $58,500 |
| TEXAS CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP | $56,600 |
| NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP | $44,804 |
| ALABAMA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP | $44,000 |
| MINNESOTA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP | $42,500 |
| WISCONSIN CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP | $41,500 |
| GEORGIA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP | $32,500 |
| CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP | $32,500 |
| FLORIDA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP | $32,500 |
| MISSOURI CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP | $32,500 |
| WEST VIRGINIA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP | $32,500 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $12,709 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CENTER | $11,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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
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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MCMISSOURI CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP5× · 2021–2025 · $493k · revenue -99% · 98% of their budget
- MCMICHIGAN CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERS4× · 2022–2025 · $371k · 99% of their budget
- TCTennessee Center for Employee Owner ship6× · 2020–2025 · $169k · 95% of their budget
Funded once
- ACALABAMA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP INCone grant, 2025 · $44k
- WVWEST VIRGINIA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP INCone grant, 2025 · $33k
- KSKENT STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2025 · $13k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To help employee ownership thrive.
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Project equity is a national leader in the movement to harness employee ownership to maintain thriving local business communities, honor selling owners legacies, and address income and wealth inequality.
The mission of the employee ownership expansion network is to significantly expand employee ownership in the united states through establishing and supporting a network of independent nonprofit state centers for employee ownership.
Creating a cooperative culture
Identify and develop talent to increase the number of sustainable Black-owned business in the Upstate
Business training and education
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Entrepreneurs' organization is a global network of business owners. it is the catalyst that enables entrepreneurs to learn and grow from each other, leading to greater business and personal fulfillment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Center for Employee Ownership and the most unlike its peers is Tennessee Center for Employee Owner ship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MISSOURI CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERS ↗
- Who funds Tennessee Center for Employee Owner ship ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds North Carolina Employee Ownership Center ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds Vermont Employee Ownership Center ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Employee Ownership Expansion Network 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vermont Employee Ownership Center — 31% of income from government
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.
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