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Epeco Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $250 |
| COLONY CATS AND DOGS | $175 |
| ST CHARLES ANNUAL FUND | $150 |
| SEACOAST CHURCH | $150 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $100 |
| AMERICAN IMMIGRATION CONTROL FOUNDATION | $100 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS UNION | $95 |
| WORLD WAR II 75TH ANNIVERSARY | $75 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $75 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION | $70 |
| THE JUDICIAL WATCH | $70 |
| ACT FOR AMERICA | $62 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $60 |
| TROOPS DIRECT | $60 |
| ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION | $54 |
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 (FY18–18, $50) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
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 +134% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- SCSEACOAST CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH INCORPORATED2× · 2017–2018 · $300
- CCCOLONY CATS AND DOGS2× · 2017–2018 · $225
JUDICIAL WATCH INC2× · 2017–2018 · $170 · revenue +141%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $225
- TCTHE COLUMBUS ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75 · revenue +48%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The National Academy of Public Administration is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non partisan Organization established in 1967 and chartered by Congress in 1984. See Schedule O
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 60 Plus Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. 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 44 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 48 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 JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN IMMIGRATION CONTROL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE 60 PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds ACT FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds Troops Direct ↗
- Who funds ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗
- Who funds PHI KAPPA TAU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE MARINE CAROLINA MUSEUM OF THE MARINE ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: H & R Peters Family Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good
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 Epeco 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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