· Private foundation
Eric and Julie Epstein Charitable Trust
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
97% of Eric and Julie Epstein Charitable Trust’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of New Jersey, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Eric and Julie Epstein Charitable Trust named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $19k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDUCATION REFORM NOW | $6,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $2,000 |
| CENTER FOR HOPE & SAFETY | $1,500 |
| CUMAC | $1,500 |
| THE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| CYCLE FOR SURVIVAL | $1,100 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| JEWISH WOMEN INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| COMPETE 360 | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| SADDLE RIVER PBA ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| SADDLE RIVER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $350 |
| SPRING LAKE TOYS FOUNDATION | $250 |
| DR JAMES CLEARY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $200 |
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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…
To provide vision and leadership to advance the interest of the food industry in new jersey.
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…
Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.
PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
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,…
The Organization's mission is to improve the safety, quality, and affordability of healthcare for everyone.
We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…
By leading coordinated action, montco anti-hunger network strengthens the food security safety net system in montgomery county, pa, working to end hunger in montgomery county.
Originating in mercer county in 2020 with the mission of tackling both food insecurity and food waste, share my meals has since expanded across the state of new jersey. more than 994,000 new jersey residents are food-secure while over 1.9…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 23 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds THE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION REFORM NOW INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CUMACECHO INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds COMPETE 360 ↗
- Who funds Jewish Women International ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds White Plains Hospital Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Spring Lake Toys Foundation Inc DBA- Spring Lake Hope Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
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: The Provident Bank Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · 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 Eric and Julie Epstein Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Center for Hope and Safety Inc — 69% of income from government
- Cumacecho Inc — 25% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.