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Epstein and French Foundation Inc

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.

$328k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$328k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Philanthropy$354kEducation$70kArts & Culture$17kFood & Nutrition$15kInternational$5kReligion$5kCommunity Improvement$3kAnimals$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$328,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$480k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING FUND$328,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MOCA: $500 → 11%THE HUNTINGTON: $1k → 14%PACIFIC WHALE: $5k → 9%HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 9%THE FOOD BASKET INC: $2k → 15%SCENIC HUDSON INC: $1k → 9%JAZZ FORUM ARTS: $3k → 9%RIVERTOWN FILM SOCIETY: $3k → 14%FOOD BANK OF THE HUDSON VALLEY: $5k → 14%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $5k → 17%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION: $3k → 14%KAHLIN THEATRE FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MD: $15k → 11%UMBF INC: $15k → 19%THE HUNTINGTON: $1k → 14%HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 9%THE FOOD BASKET: $1k → 15%TARRYTOWN MUSIC HALL: $1k → 9%THE EAST VILLAGE COMMUNITY: $2k → 17%NO KID HUNGRY: $4k → 14%UMBF INC: $15k → 19%LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $3k → 14%HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 9%SCENIC HUDSON: $3k → 15%RIVER ARTS: $1k → 9%ST JUDE: $5k → 17%UMBF INC: $15k → 19%MUSEUM OF JURASSIC TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 14%KAHILN THEATRE: $1k → 15%UMBF INC: $10k → 19%PUAKO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $1k → 15%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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NY
OH
CA
MD
DC
HI
GA

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$417k · 5 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
21

Total granted

$417k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-14%
+13%

Still filing today

60%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationHousing & ShelterEnvironmentInternationalOther

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

  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING FUND
    2× · 2024–2025 · $354k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $55k · revenue +70%
  • HM
    HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART
    3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue -15%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MD
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Food Bank Association of New York State

The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…

Food & Nutrition
2
Island Harvest Ltd

The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.

Human Services
3
Hawaii Foodbank Inc

Hawaii foodbank, inc. is a nonprofit organization established to collect, warehouse and distribute salvageable food to social agencies that feed the needy of hawaii. the company is a certified member of feeding america, a nonprofit…

Food & Nutrition
4
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
5
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
6
Food Bank for New York City

Food bank for nyc has been the city's major hunger-relief organization driven by our mission to empower every new yorker to achieve food security for good. we harness the collective power of our network of food providers, partners, and…

Community Improvement
7
Maui Food Bank Inc

The mission of the maui food bank is to help the hungry in maui county by collecting and distributing food through community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
8
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
9
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
10
Hawaii Public Television Foundation Dba Pbs Hawaii

The mission of pbs hawai'i is to advance learning and discovery by sharing stories that profoundly touch lives. we bring the world to hawai'i and hawai'i to the world.

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Puako Community Association. 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

13 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. 13 of the 26 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)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING FUND — $354,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING FUNDUNIVERSITY OF MD — $15,000 · Other+14 more — $32,526 · Other+14 moreUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BASKET INC — $3,000 · Food & NutritionHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART — $3,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERTOWN FILM SOCIETY INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF JURASSIC TECHNOLOGY — $2,500 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,025 · InternationalLOS ANGELES MISSION INC — $1,000 · Housing & ShelterPUAKO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $1,000 · Community ImprovementScenic Hudson Inc — $1,000 · Environment
Other$401,526Education$55,000Food & Nutrition$8,000Arts & Culture$8,000International$5,025Housing & Shelter$1,000Community Improvement$1,000Environment$1,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD BASKET INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ FORUM ARTS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRIVERTOWN FILM SOCIETY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JURASSIC TECHNOLOGY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPUAKO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc — $1,000 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.

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.

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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 Epstein and French Foundation Inc 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 26 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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