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Equity Residential Foundation

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.

$163k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$300kEmployment$255kEducation$146kFood & Nutrition$143kHousing & Shelter$121kHealth$116kPublic Safety & Disaster$87kCrime & Legal$59kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $145k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mercy Housing California$40,000
Ferguson Charitable Foundation$25,000
Innovation Network for Communities$20,000
Genesys Works Chicago$15,000
Christ the King Jesuit College Preparatory School$15,000
Emergency Network Los Angeles Inc$10,000
California Community Foundation$10,000
World Central Kitchen Inc$10,000
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network$5,000
American Red Cross$5,000
Cameron Boyce Foundation$2,500
Misericordia Foundation$2,500
Mercy Housing Lakefront$2,500
Common Pantry$400
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Pine Street Inn: $10k → 16%Downtown Women's Center: $20k → 14%Care for Friends: $3k → 14%Pine Street Inn: $5k → 16%Denver Rescue Mission: $5k → 12%Covenant House New Jersey: $500 → 16%Misericordia Foundation: $3k → 14%American Red Cross: $38k → 14%American Red Cross: $12k → 14%American Red Cross: $5k → 14%American Red Cross: $1k → 14%American Red Cross: $1k → 14%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

NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Equity Residential Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Equity Residential Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$950k · 19 repeat orgs$470k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
52

Total granted

$950k
$375k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+28%

Still filing today

89%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • IN
    INNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +97%
  • FC
    FERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +112%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +140%

Funded once

  • NF
    NAREIT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -81%
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $31k · revenue -66%
  • DW
    DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
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.

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Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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2
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
3
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
4
Housing Works

Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.

Housing & Shelter
5
California Healthcare Foundation

Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…

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6
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

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7
Hollywood Food Coalition

Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…

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8
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
9
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
10
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
11
West Side Center for Community Life

To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…

Youth Development
12
Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward; the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
45/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NAA Education Institute: $200,000 · OtherNAA Education InstituteOVER THE RAINBOW ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · OtherOVER THE RAINBOW ASSOCIATIONHISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR CAREER ENHANCEMENT: $40,000 · OtherHISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR CAREER ENHANCEMENTMERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $40,000 · OtherMERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIANorthwestern University: $40,000 · OtherNorthwestern University+45 more: $287,558 · Other+45 moreINNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $195,000 · Community ImprovementINNOVATION NETWORK FOR …NAREIT FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementNAREIT FOUNDATIONAscend Foundation Inc: $40,000 · Community ImprovementAscend Foundation IncCHICAGO CARES INC: $10,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementFERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationFERGUSON …DEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationDEPAUL UN…THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE POSSE…LINK Unlimited Scholars: $10,000 · EducationLINK Unli…FUTURE FOUNDERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $69,534 · Food & NutritionGREATER C…GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $18,500 · Food & NutritionGOLDEN HA…PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $15,500 · Food & NutritionPROJECT B…NOURISHNJ INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $5,000 · Food & NutritionAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $56,955 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $5,000 · Human Services+3 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesTREVOR PROJECT INC: $40,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $31,299 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Civil RightsPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $25,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthEMERGENCY NETWORK LOS ANGELES INC: $10,000 · HealthCAMERON BOYCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,661 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $430 · Health
Other$657,558Community Improvement$300,000Education$120,000Food & Nutrition$118,534Human Services$102,455Civil Rights$81,299Health$66,091

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $195,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetFERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $69,534 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $56,955 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOVER THE RAINBOW ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetNAREIT FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNorthwestern University: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR CAREER ENHANCEMENT: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAscend Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $31,299 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR SAFETY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHRIGHT 360: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $18,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $15,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,547 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WEST END MUSEUM INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY NETWORK LOS ANGELES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINK Unlimited Scholars: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUILD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAMERON BOYCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS PERSONS REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,661 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENTRYWAY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCARPENTER'S SHELTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOURISHNJ INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUTURE FOUNDERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetESSEX FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Chicago Community…Greater Chicago Food …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Wells Fargo FoundationCalifornia Community …John D and Catherine …Morgan Stanley Global…Greater Washington Co…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…
The Chicago Community TrustIL14.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Greater Chicago Food Depository · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · California Community Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Equity Residential Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Equity Residential Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • The West End Museum Incorporated: 65% of income from government
  • Covenant House New Jersey Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Nourishnj Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Equity Residential Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Equity Residential Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 83 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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