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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.

$240k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Itemized grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
27%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$235k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 14
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$245k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Erm Group Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EnvironmentInternationalAnimalsEducationFood & NutritionHuman 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
FY2024still arriving13$235k15%
FY202311$222k27%
FY202214$194k43%
FY202111$127k64%
FY20208$97kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$547kInternational$167kAnimals$66kCivil Rights$45kFood & Nutrition$25kHuman Services$25k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Erm Group Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOcean Wise Conservation Association: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAfrica Development Promise: $99,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetDrink Local Drink Tap Inc: $73,880 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetSurge for Water Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetGlobal Grassroots: $45,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $38,072 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSolar Village Project Inc: $38,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetWorld Salmon Council: $35,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetNooksack Salmon Enhancement Association: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVentana Wildlife Society: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSauvie Island Center: $29,988 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetThe Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County: $25,380 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetRocking the Boat Inc: $20,830 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSaha Global Inc: $19,357 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc: $16,400 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Houston Audubon Society: $15,963 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEngineers Without Borders-Usainc: $12,959 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlley Pond Environmental Centerinc: $12,152 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Save Alliance Foundation Dba Green Allies: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetProject Zawadi Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAyin Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSowing Seeds for Life: $6,928 over 1y, 0.2% 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 23.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

PatagoniaorgCA12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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How do I get to Erm Group Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Erm Group Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Erm Group Foundation Inc

How much does Erm Group Foundation Inc give?
Erm Group Foundation Inc reported 13 itemized grants totaling $235,000, out of $240,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Erm Group Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (63%), International (19%), Animals (8%).
Who are Erm Group Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Ocean Wise Conservation Association ($100k), The Ocean Foundation ($100k), Africa Development Promise ($99k).
Does Erm Group Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Erm Group Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Erm Group Foundation Inc based?
Erm Group Foundation Inc is based in PA.

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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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