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· Private foundation

Eppley Foundation for Research Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$222k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Science & Tech$763kEducation$624kEnvironment$273kHealth$76kAnimals$58kRecreation & Sports$28kFood & Nutrition$20k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $172k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$28,750
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$50,001
NATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY$37,000
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN$30,000
VISION GIFT$28,750
EVERSIGHT$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA$20,000
VISION GIFT$20,000
GOVERNORS STATE UNIVERSITY$11,500
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $28k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $28k → 12%HARVARD COLLEGE: $28k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SANTA CRUZ: $30k → 13%WHALE TRUST: $34k → 9%QUEENS COLLEGE CUNY: $33k → 13%ESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $28k → 14%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $29k → 14%AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $70k → 17%STATE UNIVERSITY OF NY- POTSDAM: $23k → 18%NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $30k → 28%HER FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%VISION GIFT: $31k → 12%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $24k → 14%YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $50k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $35k → 8%COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $29k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $28k → 13%FUTURE GENERATIONS UNIVERSITY: $24k → 15%ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $25k → 14%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 24%ROWAN UNIVERSITY: $28k → 8%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $30k → 8%EVERSIGHT: $30k → 10%NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $25k → 16%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $26k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $30k → 8%RAMSEY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%BIGELOW LAB FOR OCEAN SCIENCES: $27k → 9%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $26k → 16%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $26k → 14%NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $30k → 28%YALE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 12%CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN: $27k → 14%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY: $29k → 24%ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%MONTCLAIR STTATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $28k → 16%VISION GIFT: $29k → 16%NATURAL AREAS CONSERVACY: $38k → 17%NY BOTANICAL GARDENS: $30k → 28%ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $25k → 14%MONTCLAIR STTATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%NATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY: $38k → 17%NY BOTANICAL GARDENS: $26k → 28%NATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY: $37k → 17%NATURAL AREAS CONSERVACY: $28k → 17%NATURAL AREA CONSERVANCY: $27k → 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

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WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IN
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
HI
MS
AL
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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$855k · 13 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
42

Total granted

$855k
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+34%

Still filing today

38%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentAnimalsScience & TechHealthOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
    3× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +42%
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    2× · 2019–2024 · $54k · revenue +39%
  • V
    VisionGift
    2× · 2023–2025 · $51k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +55%
  • MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $53k · revenue +140%
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
7
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
10
Ie New York College

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Education
11
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
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yale University; the most unlike its peers is Ramsey Research Foundation 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

24 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. 24 of the 59 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EVERSIGHT: $105,000 · OtherEVERSIGHTRUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $72,635 · OtherRUTGERS UNIVERSITYNY BOTANICAL GARDENS: $66,350 · OtherNY BOTANICAL GARDENSMISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY: $59,363 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $56,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · Other+32 more: $757,080 · Other+32 moreAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $70,265 · EducationAMERICANS FOR OXFORD I…Rochester Institute of Technology: $54,412 · EducationRochester Institute of…MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $53,436 · EducationMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVER…Yale University: $50,001 · EducationYale UniversityIllinois Institute of Technology: $50,000 · EducationIllinois Institute of …ESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $28,155 · EducationESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION…The Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $27,904 · EducationThe Research Foundatio…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $27,500 · EducationUniversity of Notre Da…ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,484 · EducationROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUND…FUTURE GENERATIONS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $24,342 · EducationFUTURE GENERATIONS UNI…+1 more: $6,150 · EducationNATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC: $166,600 · EnvironmentNATURAL AREAS CO…NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $80,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANIC…CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $26,847 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICUL…MANDAAMIN INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentMANDAAMIN INSTIT…WHALE TRUST: $34,310 · Science & TechBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $27,445 · Science & TechVisionGift: $50,660 · HealthWILD ENTRUST INTERNATIONAL: $20,663 · AnimalsChicago Zoological Society: $3,348 · Animals
Other$1,216,428Education$417,649Environment$293,447Science & Tech$61,755Health$50,660Animals$24,011

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 budgetNATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC: $166,600 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $70,265 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $54,412 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $53,436 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVisionGift: $50,660 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYale University: $50,001 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHALE TRUST: $34,310 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $28,155 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $27,904 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $27,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $27,445 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $26,847 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $26,282 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,484 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRamsey Research Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFUTURE GENERATIONS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $24,342 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $23,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILD ENTRUST INTERNATIONAL: $20,663 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetMANDAAMIN INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetBEE INFORMED PARTNERSHIP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $6,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Zoological Society: $3,348 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.

  • Who funds NATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VisionGift ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds WHALE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Ramsey Research Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FUTURE GENERATIONS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Ramsey Research Foundation Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Rowan University Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 59 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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