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· Public charity

Epic Foundation Inc

To support domestic and foreign charitable organizations focused on child and youth welfare and the defense of the planet.

$401k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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 2024.

Education$1.3MHealth$711kCrime & Legal$634kInternational$331kHousing & Shelter$260kHuman Services$110kYouth Development$95kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $176,001, the rows itemized in this filing. The $400,701 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $224,700 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JED FOUNDATION$61,001
COMMON JUSTICE$45,000
STRONGMINDS INC$30,000
KIDOGO EARLY YEARS INC$20,000
LWALA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE$20,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PIVOTAL: $20k → 11%THE BOTTOM LINE INC: $50k → 16%PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS: $100k → 8%LIVING GOODS: $50k → 10%HAVEN HOUSE: $110k → 13%THE JED FOUNDATION: $113k → 17%COMMONLIT INC: $168k → 14%NYAKA AIDS ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $225k → 16%LWALA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $20k → 14%NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $50k → 12%KIDOGO EARLY YEARS INC: $20k → 16%SPARK PROGRAM: $20k → 14%STRONGMINDS INC: $90k → 16%PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS: $75k → 8%LIVING GOODS: $25k → 10%THE JED FOUNDATION: $103k → 17%COMMONLIT INC: $150k → 14%NYAKA AIDS ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $35k → 16%NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $30k → 12%STRONGMINDS INC: $30k → 16%TEENFORCE: $38k → 8%FIRST GRADUATE: $37k → 10%THE JED FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%COMMONLIT INC: $140k → 14%STRONGMINDS INC: $10k → 16%THE JED FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%COMMONLIT INC: $114k → 14%NEW CLASSROOMS: $169k → 17%COMMONLIT INC: $75k → 14%THE ALI FORNEY CENTER: $150k → 17%EVIDENCE ACTION INC: $51k → 14%NEW CLASSROOMS: $138k → 17%ALI FORNEY CENTER: $60k → 17%NEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS: $60k → 17%ALI FORNEY CENTER: $50k → 17%LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN: $109k → 17%LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN: $100k → 17%LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 17%LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 17%SCIPTED: $37k → 17%SCRIPTED: $15k → 17%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CA
CO
AZ
TN
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 12 repeat orgs$366k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
7

Total granted

$3.1M
$326k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+1%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationHealthPhilanthropySocial ScienceCrime & 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

  • CI
    COMMONLIT INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $647k · revenue +141%
  • TJ
    THE JED FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $426k · revenue +58%
  • LF
    LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $309k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY
    one grant, 2019 · $110k · revenue -15%
  • EA
    EVIDENCE ACTION
    one grant, 2018 · $51k · revenue +1%
  • TB
    THE BOTTOM LINE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +69%
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
Common Impact Inc

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…

Unclassified
2
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
3
Common Future

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…

Community Improvement
4
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

—
5
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
6
Onegoal

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.

Youth Development
7
Open New York Education Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
8
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
9
Coop Careers Inc

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

Education
10
Firelight Foundation

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.

International
11
College Summit Inc

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…

Education
12
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action; the most unlike its peers is Pivotal Foundation. 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

21 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMONLIT INC: $646,793 · EducationCOMMONLIT INCNEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC: $367,023 · EducationNEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS…SCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION: $51,800 · EducationTHE JED FOUNDATION: $426,001 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDATI…NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $80,000 · HealthNURSE-FAMILY PAR…PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS: $175,000 · OtherPIVOTAL CONNECTIONSCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY: $110,000 · OtherCHILD AND FAMILY SERVIC…TEENFORCE: $37,800 · OtherNYAKA INC: $259,800 · OtherNYAKA INCTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE BOTTOM LINE INCFIRST GRADUATE: $36,700 · Other+3 more: $60,000 · Other+3 moreCOMMON JUSTICE INC: $325,000 · Social ScienceCOMMON JUS…LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $309,192 · Crime & LegalLAWYERS FO…STRONGMINDS INC: $130,000 · InternationalSTRONGMIN…LIVING GOODS: $75,000 · InternationalLIVING GO…EVIDENCE ACTION: $51,394 · InternationalEVIDENCE …Lwala Community Alliance: $20,000 · InternationalLwala Com…ALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $260,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$1,065,616Health$506,001Other$729,300Social Science$325,000Crime & Legal$309,192International$276,394Housing & Shelter$260,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMONLIT INC: $646,793 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $426,001 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetNEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC: $367,023 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMON JUSTICE INC: $325,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $309,192 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $260,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNYAKA INC: $259,800 over 2y, 13% of budgetPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS: $175,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSTRONGMINDS INC: $130,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY: $110,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING GOODS: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION: $51,800 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetEVIDENCE ACTION: $51,394 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEENFORCE: $37,800 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetKidogo Early Years Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPIVOTAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSPARK PROGRAM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLwala Community Alliance: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Greater Houston Commu…Mulago FoundationDovetail Impact Found…National Philanthropi…Robin Hood FoundationGates FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Tides FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Jewish Communal Fund
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA20.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–40%
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 Foundation Inc?

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

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $46k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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