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Epeco Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Epeco Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2k
Granted FY2018
39
Grants FY2018
13
States reached
$250
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Civil Rights$710Human Services$360Education$325Religion$320Health$320Arts & Culture$265Crime & Legal$250Animals$225Other$0
02FY2018 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50
Median grant
13
States reached
$83k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$250
COLONY CATS AND DOGS$175
ST CHARLES ANNUAL FUND$150
SEACOAST CHURCH$150
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION CONTROL FOUNDATION$100
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$100
AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS UNION$95
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA$75
WORLD WAR II 75TH ANNIVERSARY$75
THE JUDICIAL WATCH$70
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION$70
ACT FOR AMERICA$62
TROOPS DIRECT$60
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$60
ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION$54
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHARITY NEWSIES: $50 → 15%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

MI
OH
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1k · 8 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +134% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$1k
$500

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+134%
+26%

Still filing today

50%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Civil RightsEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SC
    SEACOAST CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH INCORPORATED
    2× · 2017–2018 · $300
  • CC
    COLONY CATS AND DOGS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $225
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $170 · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $225
  • TC
    THE COLUMBUS ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75 · revenue +48%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $50
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
United States Naval Institute

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.

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2
Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc

To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.

Education
3
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science
4
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

—
5
American Foreign Service Association

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…

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6
Npr Foundation

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…

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7
Air & Space Forces Association

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…

Education
8
Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International
9
Observer Research Foundation America

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…

International
10
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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.…

Arts & Culture
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
12
National Academy of Public Administration

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

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 60 Plus Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 48 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEACOAST CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH INCORPORATED: $300 · OtherSEACOAST CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH INCORPORATEDCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $250 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONCOLONY CATS AND DOGS: $225 · OtherCOLONY CATS AND DOGSSALVATION ARMY: $225 · OtherSALVATION ARMYST CHARLES ANNUAL FUND: $150 · OtherST CHARLES ANNUAL FUNDAMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS UNION: $145 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS UNIONWORLD WAR II 75TH ANNIVERSARY: $75 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $75 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC: $75 · Other+18 more: $585 · Other+18 moreTHE 60 PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $140 · Civil RightsTHE 60 PLUS…ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $70 · Civil RightsALLIANCE DE…ACT FOR AMERICA: $62 · Civil RightsACT FOR AME…FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $25 · Civil RightsFIRST LIBER…SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC: $25 · Civil RightsSOUTHEASTER…NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $25 · Civil RightsNATIVE AMER…JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $170 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL W…AMERICAN IMMIGRATION CONTROL FOUNDATION INC: $150 · Public BenefitAMERICAN I…+1 more: $10 · Public BenefitOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100 · EducationOHIO STAT…THE COLUMBUS ACADEMY: $75 · EducationTHE COLUM…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $50 · EducationHILLSDALE…The Ohio University Foundation: $50 · EducationThe Ohio …NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $25 · EducationNATIONAL …ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION: $54 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $50 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE MARINE CAROLINA MUSEUM OF THE MARINE: $46 · Arts & CultureCOALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION: $40 · Arts & CultureOHIO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION INC: $50 · Human ServicesMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $25 · Human ServicesTroops Direct: $60 · Philanthropy
Other$2,105Civil Rights$347Public Benefit$330Education$300Arts & Culture$190Human Services$75Philanthropy$60

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 budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $170 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN IMMIGRATION CONTROL FOUNDATION INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 60 PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $140 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS ACADEMY: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $70 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACT FOR AMERICA: $62 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTroops Direct: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION: $54 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHI KAPPA TAU FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION: $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRO ENGLISH: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoldier's Wish: $10 over 1y, 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.

H & R Peters Family F…Farrell Family Founda…The Ayco Charitable F…Shell USA Company Fou…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for Good
H & R Peters Family FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Epeco Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Epeco Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Epeco Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Epeco 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 48 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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