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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 38 grants below total $304,920 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,901,837 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,596,917 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 · FY2019
- Under $10k30 grants · $191k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC | $24,322 |
| THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC | $15,921 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $13,750 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $13,200 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $12,545 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $11,843 |
| HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY | $11,071 |
| UNITED WAY | $11,032 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $9,288 |
| ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC | $9,094 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC | $8,560 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $8,508 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $8,248 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $8,223 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $7,700 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $99k · revenue +145%- ACASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC3× · 2017–2019 · $49k · revenue +28%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2017–2019 · $49k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- RHROLLING HILLS COVENANT CHURCH ROLLING HILLS ESTATES CAone grant, 2017 · $15k
- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2017 · $12k
- UWUNITED WAY OF SILICON VALLEYone grant, 2017 · $11k
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 improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
Catholic charities of the archdiocese of washington is the area's leading provider of comprehensive human services, offered to individuals and families in need, through 47 programs in 29 locations in the district of columbia, montgomery,…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.
California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Calverthealth medical center provides quality inpatient and ambulatory health care to the people of southern maryland that is accessible, cost-effective and compassionate. chmc works in partnership with the community to improve the health…
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.
To assist in the management of and to provide services to related healthcare affiliates.
The mission of community mercy health partners is to carry out the bon secours mercy health mission within our community by providing safe, effective, patient/resident centered, timely and cost efficient care and education to meet the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Florida United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Grace Ministry. 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.
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 51 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 54 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 THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL GRACE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Mojave Valley United Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Charity Foundation for African Catholic Mission ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND COUNCIL FOR SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
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.
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
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 Employees Charity Organization 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.
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
- Casaprince George's County Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc — 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.