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Erickson Family Foundation The
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $2,000 |
| COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEFEVERYWHERE INC (CARE USA) | $1,000 |
| WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA | $1,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN ACTION NETWORK | $500 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH (NO KID HUNGRY) | $500 |
| FOOD ALLERGY FUND | $500 |
| SOME INC | $500 |
| THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC | $500 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $500 |
| NATIONAL ALOPECIA AREATA FOUNDATION | $500 |
| WORLD WILD LIFE FUND INC | $500 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC | $250 |
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 (FY20–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
Indiana University Foundation8× · 2017–2025 · $171k · revenue +97%
Feeding America6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +40%- TMTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC5× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +18%
Funded once
University of Illinois Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +70%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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 engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.
To advocate for changes in policies, programs and conditions that allow hunger and poverty to persist, both in the United States and around the world.
To provide analysis and education on hunger issues in the United States and around the world.
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.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the World Food Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Institute for Global Therapeutics and Drug Design. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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. 22 of the 42 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 Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL THERAPEUTICS AND DRUG DESIGN ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds Federation of Virginia Food Banks ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds National Alopecia Areata Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOOD ALLERGY FUND ↗
- Who funds Save the Children Action Network ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Erickson Family Foundation The 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% 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.
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