· Public charity
Epic Foundation Inc
To support charitable and non-governmental organizations, including but not limited to those focused on child development and welfare and the defense of the planet, either through contributions or by direct financial, technical, or managerial assistance.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $176,001 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $400,701 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $224,700 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JED FOUNDATION | $61,001 |
| COMMON JUSTICE | $45,000 |
| STRONGMINDS INC | $30,000 |
| KIDOGO EARLY YEARS INC | $20,000 |
| LWALA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of your 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
Grants abroad, by region — $225k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
Stated purpose: GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
Stated purpose: GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- CICOMMONLIT INC5× · 2018–2022 · $647k · revenue +141%
- TJTHE JED FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $426k · revenue +58%
- LFLAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC4× · 2017–2020 · $309k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- CACHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTYone grant, 2019 · $110k · revenue -15%
- EAEVIDENCE ACTIONone grant, 2018 · $51k · revenue +1%
- TBTHE BOTTOM LINE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +69%
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.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.
Onegoal (the organization") is a nonprofit organization incorporated on june 13, 2003 to provide underserved students with the resources, support, and network to earn a postsecondary degree.
Firelight supports catalytic community-based organizations in eastern and southern africa that work with their own communities to realize shared visions of sustainable change and true potential for children and youth.
College summit, inc. d/b/a peerforward (peerforward)'s mission is to unleash the power of positive peer influence to transform the lives of youth living in low-income communities by connecting them to college and careers. in low-income…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Child and Family Services of Erie County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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.
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 COMMONLIT INC ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NYAKA INC ↗
- Who funds PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds STRONGMINDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds LIVING GOODS ↗
- Who funds SCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION ↗
- Who funds EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds TEENFORCE ↗
- Who funds FIRST GRADUATE ↗
- Who funds Kidogo Early Years Inc ↗
- Who funds PIVOTAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPARK PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Lwala Community Alliance ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Mulago Foundation · Dovetail Impact Foundation (Fka David Weekley Family Foundation) · National Philanthropic Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jewish Communal Fund
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 Epic Foundation Inc 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 Bottom Line Inc — 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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