How much did EPSTEIN FOUNDATION grant in FY2018?

EPSTEIN FOUNDATION reported 35 grants totaling $364,131 in its FY2018 IRS filing.

Where is EPSTEIN FOUNDATION based?

EPSTEIN FOUNDATION is based in IL.

EPSTEIN FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

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EPSTEIN FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$364k

Granted FY2018

Grants

Communities

$258k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2018 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

Under $10k31 grants · $63k
$10k–50k3 grants · $43k
$250k+1 grant · $258k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$258,331
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART$20,750
CHI ARTS$12,500
ART INSTITUTE DEPT OF PHOTOGRAPHY$10,000
VICTORY GARDENS THEATRE$7,500
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO$7,500
CHICAGO YOUTH CENTERS$5,000
CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN$5,000
CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY$5,000
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTR$5,000
MIDWEST ACCESS PROJECT$4,000
THE GOODMAN THEATRE$3,000
CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING$2,500
HUBBARD STREET DANCE$2,500
LUBIZNIK CENTER$2,000

02The need

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 (FY18–18, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

Chicago Learning Exchange

The Chicago Learning Exchange (CLX) is a nonprofit organization that connects and supports our city's array of out-of-school time youth-focused organizations in order to prepare youth, youth workers, and our city for the future.

Youth Development

Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture

Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights

A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth

Human Services

Chicago Votes

Leadership development and non partisan civic education.

Civil Rights

The Chicago Network Inc

To educate members and the public on issues related to advancement of women in the workplace.

Community Improvement

Chicago Education Partnership

To create a school that dramatically transforms the lives of k-8 students and prepares them for success in college and in life through: the delivery of a rigorous and personalized academic program, a focus on holistic education, and the…

Education

University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education

Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement

Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center

The center promotes and grows chicago's entrepreneurial community.

Community Improvement

The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education

Leadership Greater Chicago

To enhance the quality of the chicago metropolitan area's future leaders in whom the community will vest responsibility for its well being.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Foundation for Women and the most unlike its peers is Human Rights Watch Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/11

Grantees still filing

9/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$343,331Arts & Culture$7,500Youth Development$5,200Health$4,000International$1,750Community Improvement$1,000Education$850Human Services$500

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organisation EPSTEIN FOUNDATION 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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0rely on government for over half their income

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typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MIDWEST ACCESS PROJECT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~17 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 8.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 208336719 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MIDWEST ACCESS PROJECT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 17 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Epstein Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Epstein Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

EPSTEIN FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Epstein Foundation?

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EPSTEIN FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Epstein Foundation?

More from the funding graph