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EPIC (Eddleman Planned Investment Consideration) Inc

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.

$62k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$100kEducation$57kScience & Tech$50kArts & Culture$26kHuman Services$25kCivil Rights$10kCommunity Improvement$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$6,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$50,000
W Huggins$6,500
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$5,575
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS INC: $25k → 10%STARTOUT: $3k → 10%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $50k → 14%LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC: $10k → 17%HOUGH HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA PATRONS: $200 → 10%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - HEART AND VASCULAR INST: $33k → 19%STARTOUT: $3k → 10%LOS ANGELES GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES CEN: $100 → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - HEART AND VASCULAR INST: $33k → 19%STARTOUT: $3k → 10%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - HEART AND VASCULAR INST: $33k → 19%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%WILDLIFE WAYSTATION INC: $3k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR THE AIDS MONUMENT: $1k → 14%W Huggins: $7k → 14%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.
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$127k · 4 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +128% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$127k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+128%
0%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureCivil RightsAnimalsOther
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

  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - HEART AND VASCULAR INST
    3× · 2018–2020 · $100k
  • WH
    W Huggins
    3× · 2018–2025 · $17k
  • S
    STARTOUT
    3× · 2019–2021 · $10k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • From The Heart Productions
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • LL
    LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +187%
  • HC
    H Calvario
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
The American Museum of Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender History & Culture

Celebrate cultures of lgbtq+ people

—
3
Academy Museum Foundation

The academy museum of motion pictures advances the understanding, celebration, and preservation of cinema through inclusive and accessible exhibitions, screenings, programs, initiatives, and collections. welcoming visitors from los angeles…

Arts & Culture
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project

The new york city gay and lesbian anti-violence project (avp) mission is to empower lgbtq and hiv-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and support survivors through counseling and…

—
6
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

Education
7
Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
8
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
9
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
10
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
11
Outfest

Outfest is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to protect our past, showcase our present and nurture our future by fostering artistic expression of gender, sexuality and lgbt culture and its transformative social impact on the world.

—
12
United Latino Fund

United latinx fund is los angeles' leading foundation and philanthropic resource created for and by latinx that transforms, uplifts and improves our community's quality of life. with generous support from workplace giving campaigns, united…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ucla Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Waystation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - HEART AND VASCULAR INST: $99,999 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - HEART AND VASCULAR INSTW Huggins: $16,500 · OtherW HugginsSTARTOUT: $9,999 · OtherSTARTOUTH Calvario: $5,000 · OtherB Stoughton: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $3,600 · OtherUCLA FOUNDATION: $55,575 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $50,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY+2 more: $900 · EducationFrom The Heart Productions: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFrom The H…FOUNDATION FOR THE AIDS MONUMENT: $1,000 · Arts & CultureLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsWILDLIFE WAYSTATION: $3,046 · Animals
Other$140,098Education$106,475Arts & Culture$26,000Civil Rights$10,000Animals$3,046

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $55,575 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTARTOUT: $9,999 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWILDLIFE WAYSTATION: $3,046 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE AIDS MONUMENT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUGH HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA PATRONS: $200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $100 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 EPIC (Eddleman Planned Investment Consideration) Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from EPIC (Eddleman Planned Investment Consideration) Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
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    How do I get to EPIC (Eddleman Planned Investment Consideration) Inc?

    Find your warmest path to EPIC (Eddleman Planned Investment Consideration) Inc 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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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