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Enkel Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$41k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
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 2024.

Education$66kHuman Services$49kInternational$35kCivil Rights$32kArts & Culture$30kCrime & Legal$25kFood & Nutrition$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Equiticity$10,000
InspireMSP$10,000
University of Portland$10,000
American National Red Cross$5,500
UNRWA USA National Committee$5,500
The Idaho Foodbank$400
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Hour Children Inc: $7k → 13%Hesed House: $5k → 8%Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc: $5k → 8%SPOON: $15k → 12%American National Red Cross: $6k → 14%SPOON: $10k → 12%SPOON: $10k → 12%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

ID
MN
IL
NY
OR
IN
CA
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Enkel Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Enkel Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 17% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$212k · 11 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$212k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+77%

Still filing today

82%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SF
    SPOON FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $35k · revenue +12%
  • I
    INSPIREMSP
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +305%
  • KIND INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $25k · revenue +219%

Funded once

  • FF
    FIRELIGHT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -40%
  • TP
    THE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAMgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +117%
  • TU
    THE UNITED COUNCIL OF HUMAN SERVICE
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue 0%
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
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
2
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
3
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
4
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
6
Impact Community Action Partnership Inc

Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.

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7
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
8
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
9
Achieve Now

Achieve now is a philadelphia-based social justice organization that sees literacy as a mechanism to effect social change. our mission is to provide k-2 school children in greater philadelphia with high-quality, culturally competent…

Education
10
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

—
11
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
12
Techbridge Inc

Techbridge breaks the cycle of generational poverty through the innovative use of technology to transform nonprofit and community impact. techbridge's work is focused on four pillars: hunger relief, homeless support, social justice and…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPOON FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Human ServicesSPOON FOUNDATIONPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER …HOUR CHILDREN INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesHOUR CHILDREN INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cro…DE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $35,000 · OtherDE LA SALLE NORTH CATHO…THE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM: $10,000 · OtherTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PR…THE UNITED COUNCIL OF HUMAN SERVICE: $7,000 · OtherTHE UNITED COUNCIL OF H…+5 more: $1,785 · OtherEquiticity: $31,600 · EducationEquiticityUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PORTLANDINSPIREMSP: $30,000 · Arts & CultureINSPIREMSPGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN: $18,000 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILD…KIND INC: $24,500 · Crime & LegalKIND INCFIRELIGHT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · InternationalUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $7,220 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $1,280 · InternationalBAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$57,500Other$53,785Education$51,600Arts & Culture$48,000Crime & Legal$24,500International$18,500Community Improvement$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPOON FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetEquiticity: $31,600 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetINSPIREMSP: $30,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetKIND INC: $24,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFIRELIGHT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $7,220 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED COUNCIL OF HUMAN SERVICE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUR CHILDREN INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $1,280 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MEAL: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIdaho Humane Society Inc: $190 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Portland: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Enkel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Enkel Foundation 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 21 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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