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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.

$816k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$137k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Community Improvement$1.4MEmployment$342kEducation$247k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $680,680, the rows itemized in this filing. The $816,295 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $135,615 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $360k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $312k
$41,500
Median grant
15
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MISSOURI CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP$32,500
WEST VIRGINIA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP$32,500
FLORIDA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP$32,500
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY$12,709
ROCKY MOUNTAIN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CENTER$11,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%MINNESOTA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $48k → 11%MINNESOTA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $43k → 11%TEXAS CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $63k → 16%MICHIGAN CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $137k → 19%ALABAMA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $44k → 16%WISCONSIN CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $50k → 17%CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $33k → 9%TENNESSEE CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $59k → 14%NORTH CAROLINA EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CENTER: $10k → 11%GEORGIA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $40k → 14%ROCKY MOUNTAIN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CENTER: $12k → 12%WEST VIRGINIA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $33k → 18%ILLINOIS CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $72k → 7%MISSOURI CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $221k → 7%VERMONT EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CENTER: $9k → 10%MINNESOTA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $36k → 11%TEXAS CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $57k → 16%MICHIGAN CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $110k → 19%WISCONSIN CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $42k → 17%CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $5k → 9%TENNESSEE CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $50k → 14%GEORGIA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $33k → 14%ILLINOIS CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $61k → 7%MISSOURI CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $124k → 7%MINNESOTA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $17k → 11%TEXAS CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $12k → 16%WISCONSIN CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $8k → 17%TENNESSEE CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $43k → 14%GEORGIA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $18k → 14%ILLINOIS CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $6k → 7%MICHIGAN CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $118k → 7%MINNESOTA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $13k → 11%TEXAS CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $5k → 16%TENNESSEE CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $8k → 14%GEORGIA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $10k → 14%MISSOURI CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $109k → 7%MINNESOTA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $10k → 11%TEXAS CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $2k → 16%TENNESSEE CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $8k → 14%GEORGIA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $8k → 14%MISSOURI CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $33k → 7%TENNESSEE CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $2k → 14%FLORIDA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $33k → 7%FLORIDA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $11k → 7%FLORIDA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $11k → 7%MISSOURI CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $7k → 7%MICHIGAN CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $7k → 7%FLORIDA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $2k → 7%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
MN
IL
WI
MI
OH
CT
CO
WV
VA
TN
NC
AL
GA
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 11 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$1.9M
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

73%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementEducationEmploymentOther
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

  • MC
    MISSOURI CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP
    5× · 2021–2025 · $493k · revenue -99% · 98% of their budget
  • MC
    MICHIGAN CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $371k · 99% of their budget
  • TC
    Tennessee Center for Employee Owner ship
    6× · 2020–2025 · $169k · 95% of their budget

Funded once

  • AC
    ALABAMA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP INC
    one grant, 2025 · $44k
  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP INC
    one grant, 2025 · $33k
  • KS
    KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2025 · $13k
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
National Center for Employee Ownership

To help employee ownership thrive.

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2
Pennsylvania Center for Employee Ownership

The mission of the corporation is to educate both individuals and business regarding the benefits of employee ownership. the corporation promotes the value of employee ownership and wishes to increase the number of business anf employees…

Public Benefit
3
Employers Association Training Center Inc
Education
4
Metro Equity Collabotrative

To provide education and resources to minority operated businesses

Education
5
Project Equity

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.

Community Improvement
6
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.

Employment
7
Center for Creation of Cooperation

Creating a cooperative culture

Education
8
Foundation for Private Employee Ownership
Education
9
Black Economic Mobility Coalition

Identify and develop talent to increase the number of sustainable Black-owned business in the Upstate

Community Improvement
10
Equity Entrepreneur Center Inc

Business training and education

Community Improvement
11
Center for Community Based Enterprise

Schedule o line 05

Community Improvement
12
Entrepreneurs' Organization of Nashville

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Center for Employee Ownership; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 16 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSOURI CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $493,438 · Community ImprovementMISSOURI CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIPTennessee Center for Employee Owner ship: $169,358 · Community ImprovementTennessee Center for Employee Owner shipMINNESOTA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $166,891 · Community ImprovementMINNESOTA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIPILLINOIS CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $138,494 · Community ImprovementILLINOIS CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIPTEXAS CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $137,769 · Community ImprovementTEXAS CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIPWISCONSIN CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $99,062 · Community ImprovementWISCONSIN CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP+1 more: $11,500 · Community ImprovementMICHIGAN CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERS: $370,877 · EducationMICHIGAN CENTER FOR E…+1 more: $9,000 · EducationGEORGIA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP INC: $108,506 · OtherGEORGIA CENTER F…FLORIDA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $56,416 · OtherFLORIDA CENTER F…ALABAMA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP INC: $44,000 · OtherALABAMA CENTER F…CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $37,756 · OtherCONNECTICUT CENT…WEST VIRGINIA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP INC: $32,500 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA CE…KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $12,709 · OtherNorth Carolina Employee Ownership Center: $126,281 · Employment
Community Improvement$1,216,512Education$379,877Other$291,887Employment$126,281

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMISSOURI CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $493,438 over 5y, 98% of budgetMICHIGAN CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERS: $370,877 over 4y, 99% of budgetTennessee Center for Employee Owner ship: $169,358 over 6y, 95% of budgetMINNESOTA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $166,891 over 5y, 47% of budgetILLINOIS CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $138,494 over 3y, 49% of budgetTEXAS CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $137,769 over 5y, 64% of budgetNorth Carolina Employee Ownership Center: $126,281 over 4y, 33% of budgetWISCONSIN CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: $99,062 over 3y, 39% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CENTER: $11,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVermont Employee Ownership Center: $9,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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 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 TEXAS 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 ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 31%
  • Vermont Employee Ownership Center: 31% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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.
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How do I get to Employee Ownership Expansion Network?

Find your warmest path to Employee Ownership Expansion Network 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 16 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 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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