· Public charity
Epsilon Sigma Alpha International Council
To support the educational and philanthropic activities of the combined chapters of EPSILON SIGMA ALPHA INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL by Bringing Good People Together to do Good Deeds for Others.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $3,237,429 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,384,052 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,146,623 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k13 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
- $250k+1 grant · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital | $3,123,582 |
| Easterseals | $16,575 |
| Wishes & More | $8,811 |
| WovenLife | $8,655 |
| Annas Celebration of Life Foundation Inc | $8,428 |
| James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association | $8,325 |
| The Umbrella Project Inc | $8,000 |
| Southwest Human Development | $8,000 |
| Help for the Homeless Inc | $7,950 |
| Alzheimer's & Related Disorders Association | $7,650 |
| Special Love Inc | $6,814 |
| ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation | $6,814 |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $6,185 |
| Hope Ranch Ministries | $5,840 |
| Camp New Hope Inc | $5,800 |
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 (FY22–23, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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.
52 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 45 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2022–2023 · $6.0M · revenue +59%
James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association2× · 2022–2023 · $77k · revenue +6%- HFHELP FOR THE HOMELESS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $29k · revenue +178% · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- GJGENERAL JOHN A LOGAN MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue +20% · 35% of their budget
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $28k
- 0A0343 Alpha Kappaone grant, 2020 · $22k
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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
We help advance the independence of individuals with disabilities & other special needs.
We provide services so that people with disabilities can live, learn, & work in our communities.
Aimhitn supports professionals through training, resources, and community involvement to foster the early relational health of infants, young children, and families.
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
Easterseals hawaii (esh) is creating a more equitable world so people with developmental disabilities can choose their path. we do this by reimagining how care and support can be better connected to fill gaps in human services across an…
Easterseals crossroads purpose is to change the way the world defines and views disability by making profound and positive differences in people's lives every day.
The center is an early childhood program whose purpose is to help young children reach their full developmental potential and to support their families through that process.
We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wovenlife Inc and the most unlike its peers is Help for the Homeless Inc. 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.
17 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. 17 of the 117 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.
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Epsilon Sigma Alpha International Council 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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