· Private foundation
Epker-Sinha Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
- $250k+2 grants · $625k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $375,000 |
| WINSOR SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| THE STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| FOREST HIGHLANDS FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| COMMUNITY ROWING | $30,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND | $15,000 |
| THE COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYEE EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| MORE THAN WORDS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| CROWNS OF COURAGE | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% 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
- UOUniversity of Michigan9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +202% · 94% of their budget
THE WINSOR SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +46%
STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +118%
Funded once
- PCPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE-JIMMY FUNDone grant, 2021 · $8k
BOSTON BALLET INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +36%- WIWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCHgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +131%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc and the most unlike its peers is Crowns of Courage. 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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 40 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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds THE WINSOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Forest Highlands Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ROWING INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYEE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST ECO SALVAGE ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CROWNS OF COURAGE ↗
- Who funds SQUASHBUSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds WALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds SANDPOINT ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NOURISHPHX ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Epker-Sinha 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Massachusetts Historical Society — 22% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research — 7% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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.