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Engelmann Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUG O NAY GE SHIG SCHOOL | $15,900 |
| CITY OF LONDON ACADEMIES TRUST | $13,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,227 |
| CINDI'S HOPE | $5,400 |
| NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR DIRECT INSTRUCTION | $5,113 |
| INTEGRATED COLLEGE GLENGORMLEY | $4,250 |
| BEAR RIVER CHARTER SCHOOL | $3,090 |
| EDUFLEX1 INC | $2,500 |
| LAUNCESTON PRIMARY SCHOOL | $2,227 |
| ST VINCENT'S PRIMARY | $2,227 |
| HEATH LANE ACADEMY | $2,227 |
| ENGELMANN-BECKER CORP | $1,195 |
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 US giving — 74% of grant dollars ($527k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 27% that went abroad ($190k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
Beyond the US — 27% of all-years giving ($190k)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- ESEFFECTIVE SCHOOL PRACTICES RWANDA ENGLISH PROJECT6× · 2019–2024 · $153k · 56% of their budget
- CHCINDIS HOPE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $119k · revenue -39%
- NINATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR DIRECT INSTRUCTION6× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue -65%
Funded once
- AAARTHUR ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $20k
- AGAVONBOURNE GIRL'S ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $14k
- RMROWLETT MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $12k
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.
Alternatives in education, inc. d/b/a marion academy is an indiana public charter high school and middle school with a mission to provide students who are not on a traditional academic path with a structured and supportive environment to…
To provide rich content and solid skills instruction in an environment that champions character and personal academic achievement. carbon valley provides a public eduction to students preschool through grade 8.
Our mission is to foster each student's innate curiosity and joy of discovery. we preparestudents who are well educated, socially aware, scientifically literate, respectful, andresponsible citizens in the global community.
The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…
Resolute academy's mission is to equip students in grades five through eight with the academic foundation and strength of character necessary to excel in selective high schools and colleges.
Inspire and prepare students for academic excellence and cultivate responsbile, engaged, and well-rounded citizens.
To provide a comprehensive Christian Classical education to grades 1-12.
West Ridge Academy Charter School is a K-8 Public School with the vision to prepare each student with an exemplary educational experience allowing each student to meet his or her highest academic and character potential.
Reach offers a holistic approach to student learning where parents have a voice. the vision is achieving academic excellence through personalized insutruction, and parent, teacher & community partnerships.
Through rigorous curriculum and high quality instruction, provided within an invested and ambitious school community, emblaze academy charter school prepares all students in grades five through eight to thrive in high school and graduate…
Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.
Terra academy focuses on each student as a "unique" whole person in a global society by providing individualized instruction in a community learning model through educational experiences including a broad range of curricular options and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Oaks Academy and the most unlike its peers is Effective School Practices Rwanda English Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 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 EFFECTIVE SCHOOL PRACTICES RWANDA ENGLISH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CINDIS HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR DIRECT INSTRUCTION ↗
- Who funds BEAR RIVER CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CANNON BEACH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTRY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT OAKS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS HIGH SCHOOL ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Engelmann Foundation 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 Cannon Beach Academy — 8% of income from government
- New Beginnings High School — 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.
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