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Employees Charity Organization

Echo is a california nonprofit public benefit corporation that was formed to support charitable, educational, and religious organizations. Echo accomplishes its purposes by enabling and encouraging employees of northrop grumman to make contributions. Echo encourages workplace giving through two types of grant making programs. Echo…

$1.9M
Granted FY2019
38
Itemized grants FY2019
26
Organizations funded FY2019
42%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Itemized, FY2019
$305k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2019
$7,005
Largest grant, FY2019
$24,322
Organizations funded a year
16 to 39
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
4

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 42% of the organizations Employees Charity Organization funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
Human ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201926$293k42%
FY201816$232k13%
FY201739$437kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Philanthropy$277kHealth$194kReligion$140kPublic Safety & Disaster$114kHuman Services$103kFood & Nutrition$38kHousing & Shelter$33kEducation$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CA
UT
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The United Way of Central Maryland Inc$118,82830%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$99,01230%
American Cancer Society Inc$74,77130%
United Way Inc$59,75730%
Catholic Relief Services$55,8593n/a
Associated Catholic Charities Inc$49,24930%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$48,69630%
The Maryland Food Bank Inc$32,04030%
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church$31,4002n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$29,77330%
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All grantees of Employees Charity Organization by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The United Way of Central Maryland Inc$118,82830%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$99,01230%
American Cancer Society Inc$74,77130%
United Way Inc$59,75730%
Catholic Relief Services$55,8593n/a
Associated Catholic Charities Inc$49,24930%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$48,69630%
The Maryland Food Bank Inc$32,04030%
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church$31,4002n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$29,77330%
United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc$29,27130%
Christmas Project Inc$19,7473n/a
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles$19,60630%
Grace Community Church of Cypress$16,1502n/a
Rolling Hills Covenant Church Rolling Hills Estates Ca$14,7521n/a
International Grace Ministry$13,4002n/a
Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc$13,37120%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$11,80320%
Heart of Florida United Way Inc$11,07110%
Dove Christian Ministries$8,6321n/a
Mojave Valley United Fund Inc$7,35518%
Terranova Church$7,1001n/a
Mount Saint Joseph High School Inc$6,4331n/a
Charity Foundation for African Catholic Mission$6,00014%
St John Fisher Church$5,8501n/a
King of Kings Lutheran Church$5,7501n/a
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc$5,72810%
Maryland Council for Special Equestrians Inc$5,720114%
Foodbank of Southern California$5,64910%
Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County$5,35610%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints$5,2501n/a
Our Redeemer Lutheran Church$5,2001n/a
Lutheran Retreats Camps and Conferences$5,2001n/a
Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy$5,15410%
Mount Airy New Beginning Church of the Nazarene$5,1001n/a
American Heart Association Inc$5,04710%
Hope for All Inc$5,0001n/a
The Eli Home Inc$5,00011%
Calvert Hospice Inc$5,00010%
Columbia Orchestra of Howard County Inc$5,00012%
The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc$5,00010%
Casaprince George's County Inc$5,00011%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($83k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Employees Charity Organization supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe United Way of Central Maryland Inc: $118,828 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $99,012 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $74,771 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way Inc: $59,757 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAssociated Catholic Charities Inc: $49,249 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $48,696 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maryland Food Bank Inc: $32,040 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $29,773 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Santa Barbara County Inc: $29,271 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles: $19,606 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc: $13,371 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $11,803 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHeart of Florida United Way Inc: $11,071 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMojave Valley United Fund Inc: $7,355 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetCharity Foundation for African Catholic Mission: $6,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetChesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: $5,728 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaryland Council for Special Equestrians Inc: $5,720 over 1y, 14% of budgetFoodbank of Southern California: $5,649 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of Santa Clara County: $5,356 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy: $5,154 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,047 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eli Home Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCalvert Hospice Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColumbia Orchestra of Howard County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Baltimore Children's Museum Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCasaprince George's County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA19.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · America's Charities · Orange County Community Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust

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.

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About Employees Charity Organization

How much does Employees Charity Organization give?
Employees Charity Organization reported 38 itemized grants totaling $304,920, out of $1,901,837 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Employees Charity Organization fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Health (20%), Religion (14%).
Who are Employees Charity Organization's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: The United Way of Central Maryland Inc ($119k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($99k), American Cancer Society Inc ($75k).
Does Employees Charity Organization fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Employees Charity Organization?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charities Aid Foundation America, America's Charities, Orange County Community Foundation.
Where is Employees Charity Organization based?
Employees Charity Organization is based in CA.

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 54 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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