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Epsilon Gamma Boule Foundation James W Thomas

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.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of Epsilon Gamma Boule Foundation James W Thomas’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$257
Median grant
3
States reached
$31k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public School$3,000
UNC Charlotte Office of Bursar & Financial Services$2,500
Epsilon Gamma Boule Foundation Essay Contestant Winner$750
Autism Science Foundation$257
Charlotte Greater Enrichment Program Inc$250
West Durham Baptist Church$250
Caregiver Connect Inc$250
Alzheimer's Association$250
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Caregiver Connect Inc: $250 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

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American Neuromuscular Foundation

The american neuromuscular foundation was established to improve the quality of care for people with disorders of skeletal muscle, neuromuscular function, and central and peripheral nervous systems through the promotion of research and…

Health
2
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
3
North Carolina State University Alumni Association Inc

The nc state alumni association engages alumni and friends through programs and services that foster pride and enhance a lifelong connection to nc state university ("nc state").

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American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
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Alzheimers Research Association
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The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration

Promote and fund research into developing better diagnostic processes, therapies, and cures for frontotemporal degeneration (ftd); provide information, education, support and advocacy to persons diagnosed with ftd, their families and…

Health
7
Autoimmune Encephalitis Alliance Inc

To support all members of the ae community so no one faces ae alone.

Health
8
Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation Inc

The sarnoff cardiovascular research foundation is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of physician-leaders in cardiovascular medicine by funding and supporting medical students and physicians engaged in transformative research.

Health
9
American College of Radiology

The american college of radiology (acr) is organized to advance radiology science, practice and access, improve quality and safety, provide continuing education for radiology and allied professionals, and achieve better outcomes through…

Health
10
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc

To create and lead alliances and public-private partnerships that advance breakthrough biomedical discoveries and improve the quality of people's lives

Health
11
National Bureau of Economic Research Inc

The nber conducts unbiased, non-partisan economic research and communicates the findings of that research to academic researchers, policy-makers, and business professionals. (continued on schedule o)

Social Science
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Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is Epsilon Gamma Boule Foundation James W Thomas. 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 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Asheville St John AME Church — $5,000 · OtherAsheville St John AME ChurchChapel Hill-Carrboro Public School — $3,000 · OtherChapel Hill-Carrboro Public SchoolUNC Charlotte Office of Bursar & Financial Services — $2,500 · OtherUNC Charlotte Office of Bursar & Financial ServicesUNC Wilmington — $1,000 · OtherUNC Wilmington+4 more — $1,000 · Other+4 moreNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $2,500 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIV…NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $250 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA CE…American Heart Association Inc — $262 · HealthAUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION — $257 · HealthDEMENTIA SOCIETY INC — $250 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $250 · HealthEpsilon Gamma Boule Foundation James W Thomas — $750 · Public BenefitARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $250 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC — $250 · PhilanthropyCAREGIVER CONNECT INC — $250 · Human Services
Other$12,500Education$2,750Health$1,019Public Benefit$750Philanthropy$500Human Services$250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEpsilon Gamma Boule Foundation James W Thomas — $750 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $262 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEMENTIA SOCIETY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAREGIVER CONNECT INC — $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Epsilon Gamma Boule Foundation James W Thomas 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.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Northeastern University7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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