· Public charity
Erm Group Foundation Inc
Provide human resources and/or financial assistance to projects that contribute to the improvement of the earth's environment, the quality of life and sustainable development throughout the world through appropriate charitable, educational, and scientific endeavors.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $235,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $240,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Ocean Foundation | $50,000 |
| Ocean Wise Conservation Assoc | $50,000 |
| Drink Local Drink Tap Inc | $30,000 |
| Africa Development Promise | $20,000 |
| The Food Project | $10,000 |
| Solar Village Project | $10,000 |
| Sauvie Island Center | $10,000 |
| Surge for Water | $10,000 |
| Ventana Wildlife Society | $10,000 |
| The Save Alliance Foundation | $10,000 |
| The Ayin Project Inc | $10,000 |
| Sea Turtles Forever | $8,000 |
| Alley Pond Environmental Ctr | $7,000 |
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 US giving — 89% of grant dollars ($774k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($100k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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
Beyond the US — 11% of all-years giving ($100k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- ADAFRICA DEVELOPMENT PROMISE5× · 2020–2024 · $99k · revenue +69%
- DLDRINK LOCAL DRINK TAP INC4× · 2021–2024 · $74k · revenue +39%
- SFSurge for Water Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +243%
Funded once
- SGSAHA GLOBAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $19k · revenue +428%
- THThe Houston Audubon Societygraduatedone grant, 2021 · $16k · revenue +91%
- EWENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +57%
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.
Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration
Our mission is to protect vital areas of our natural world for the benefit of wildlife, habitats, and people by inspiring collaborative action. Our vision is a world where wildlife and people flourish in healthy ecosystems that sustain us…
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Snake River Waterkeeper exists for the purpose of applying science and law to protect, restore, and sustain waters of the Snake River Basin, and to support clean water access and advocacy in underserved communities worldwide.
Well Aware's mission is to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to water scarcity and contamination in East Africa.
Water for South Sudan delivers direct, transformative and sustainable quality-of-life service to the people of South Sudan by efficiently providing access to clean, safe water and improving hygiene practices in areas of great need.
Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of WA State. We collaborate with diverse interest groups to build bridges and find solutions that achieve mutual goals of environmental protection,…
To inspire understanding of water and catalyze critical conversations to build bridges and inform collaborative decision-making.
Water to Thrive transforms lives in rural Africa by working with partners and beneficiaries to bring the blessing of clean, safe water, connecting communities in need with supporters who have the heart and spirit to make a difference
The mission of Splash International and its subsidiaries is to ensure clean water for children. Splash partners with governments and local organizations to deliver sustainable water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health programs in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association and the most unlike its peers is Africa Development Promise. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 26 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 Ocean Wise Conservation Association ↗
- Who funds The Ocean Foundation ↗
- Who funds AFRICA DEVELOPMENT PROMISE ↗
- Who funds DRINK LOCAL DRINK TAP INC ↗
- Who funds Surge for Water Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GRASSROOTS ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Solar Village Project Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD SALMON COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NOOKSACK SALMON ENHANCEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Sauvie Island Center ↗
- Who funds THE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ROCKING THE BOAT INC ↗
- Who funds Sea Turtles Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds SAHA GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc ↗
- Who funds The Houston Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC ↗
- Who funds ALLEY POND ENVIRONMENTAL CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ZAWADI INC ↗
- Who funds AYIN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAVE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION DBA GREEN ALLIES ↗
- Who funds SOWING SEEDS FOR LIFE ↗
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.
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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 Erm Group Foundation Inc 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.
- World Salmon Council — 55% 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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