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Empty Stocking Fund Inc
The empty stocking fund (esf) brings joy to disadvantaged children by providing holiday gifts and essential supplies to support their social, emotional, and academic success.
$1.7M
Granted FY2025
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01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
feeding
2021
gwinnetteducationteachers studentsclassroomfreeeducationalfuture
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2025
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Teachers Treasures Inc
Distribute donated school supplies to teachers in high-need schools for use in classrooms.
Education
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Association of American Educators Founda
The Association of American Educators Foundation promotes and assists teachers and administrators in pursuing excellence in primary and secondary education.
Unclassified
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The Foundation for Public Education in
The georgia foundation for public education exists for the single purpose of supporting educational excellence for students in georgia.
Education
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Center for Powerful Public Schools
The center builds the capacity of educators to create and sustain powerful public schools.
Education
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The Fund for Teachers
Fund for teachers strengthens instruction by investing in outstanding teachers' self-determined professional growth and development in order to support student success, enrich their own practice, and strengthen their schools and…
Education
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Free 2 Teach Foundation
To provide free resources to teachers in madison county's three public school systems.
Education
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Columbus Education Association
Teacher representation
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California Teaching Fellows Foundation
Organized exclusively for educational purposes. The corporation is a public benefit corporation which identifies and supports future educators through a variety of academic, enrichment and school placement experiences to enhance…
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Sc Ag-in-the-Classroom Fund
Sc ag-in-the-classroom fund brings agriculture to classrooms around the state.
Education
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Kipp Delta Public Schools
To provide student education
Education
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Teachers Supporting Teachers
Teachers Supporting Teachers was established to mobilize and support teacher leaders to have a lasting impact in their schools.
Community Improvement
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Florida Learns Foundation Inc
To encourage greater professionalism, knowledge and skills among educators serving in school districts of florida through professional development, technical services, and supplemental financial support where district needs are unmet.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crayons to Classrooms and the most unlike its peers is Project Teacher Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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.
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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.
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How do I get to Empty Stocking Fund Inc?
Find your warmest path to Empty Stocking Fund Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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