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Epstein and French Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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

MN
NY
OH
CA
MD
DC
HI
GA
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+1%
+15%

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 & NutritionEducationEnvironmentHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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

  • 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 +1%

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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Regional Food Bank; 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 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. 13 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · InternationalScenic Hudson Inc: $1,000 · EnvironmentLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterPUAKO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$401,526Education$55,000Food & Nutrition$8,000Arts & Culture$8,000International$5,025Environment$1,000Housing & Shelter$1,000Community Improvement$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetRIVERTOWN FILM SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetJAZZ FORUM ARTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF JURASSIC TECHNOLOGY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUAKO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 4.5% 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.

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.

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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 Epstein and French Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Epstein and French Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% 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, 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 26 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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