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Erikson Institute

Erikson is a leading institution of higher education that prepares professionals to address the urgent challenges facing young children, their families and communities. Our innovative programs, transformative research and impactful advocacy empower early childhood professionals to drive lasting change. Erikson strives to build a future…

$2.8M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Itemized grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$427k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$53,040
Largest grant, FY2025
$88,279
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$105M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Erikson Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$427k50%
FY20246$699k0%
FY20236$647k83%
FY20223$216k0%
FY20211$59k0%
FY20203$294k0%
FY20194$178k50%
FY20185$825k20%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$1.5MHuman Services$1.5MEducation$1.1MHealth$113kArts & Culture$46kYouth Development$23k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sri International$1,532,76090%
Chaddock Attachment and Trauma Services$293,20521%
University of Chicago$285,22130%
University of Delaware$235,63930%
Illinois Action for Children$206,65530%
Chapin Hall Center for Children$177,73121%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$157,1202n/a
Loyola University of Chicago$92,65020%
American Academy of Pediatrics$57,90510%
Indigo Cultural Center$45,54716%
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All grantees of Erikson Institute by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sri International$1,532,76090%
Chaddock Attachment and Trauma Services$293,20521%
University of Chicago$285,22130%
University of Delaware$235,63930%
Illinois Action for Children$206,65530%
Chapin Hall Center for Children$177,73121%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$157,1202n/a
Loyola University of Chicago$92,65020%
American Academy of Pediatrics$57,90510%
Indigo Cultural Center$45,54716%
Start Early$42,19630%
National Association For Family Child Care$31,2401n/a

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Erikson Institute supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSri International: $1,532,760 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetChaddock Attachment and Trauma Services: $293,205 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $285,221 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Delaware: $235,639 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Action for Children: $206,655 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetChapin Hall Center for Children: $177,731 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLoyola University of Chicago: $92,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Academy of Pediatrics: $57,905 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndigo Cultural Center: $45,547 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetStart Early: $42,196 over 3y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Erikson Institute

How much does Erikson Institute give?
Erikson Institute reported 8 itemized grants totaling $427,379, out of $2,752,022 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Erikson Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (35%), Human Services (35%), Education (25%).
Who are Erikson Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sri International ($1.5M), Chaddock Attachment and Trauma Services ($293k), University of Chicago ($285k).
Does Erikson Institute fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Erikson Institute?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Erikson Institute based?
Erikson Institute is based in IL.

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 16 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 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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