· Private foundation
Erhart Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| VENICE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $4,000 |
| SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| HUMANITY ALLIANCE | $3,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| BEYOND NEW BEGINNINGS | $2,000 |
| MARK ANDERSON MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
| GRACE CHURCH | $2,000 |
| NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES | $2,000 |
| TEEN CHALLENGE | $1,000 |
| RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CONVERGE | $1,000 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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.
To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost
Samaritan servants international endeavors to rescue people as jesus mandated in luke 10 by ministering to people in destitute countries that have both physical and other needs for survival by offering food,water, shelter and hope through…
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
Religious
International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.
The goal of the springfield rescue mission since 1892 has been to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the hungry, homeless, addicted, and poor by introducing them to christ and helping them apply the word of god to every area of their…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Treehouse Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beyond New Beginnings. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 24 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.
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Humanity Alliance ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Beyond New Beginnings ↗
- Who funds MARK ANDERSON MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds Chanhassen Rotary Foundation ↗
- Who funds OASIS WORLD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVING CURES TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 Erhart 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.
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.