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Erol Foundation US

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$789k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$220,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 14
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$352k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Erol Foundation US funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$544k80%
FY20239$726k67%
FY202214$653kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Environment$1.1MPhilanthropy$395kHealth$230kCivil Rights$210kRecreation & Sports$190kPublic Benefit$40kHuman Services$30kHousing & Shelter$29kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
LA
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($71k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Erol Foundation US supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHonor the Earth: $300,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetThe Partnership Project Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPractice Greenhealth: $225,237 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetEastern Woodland Lacross: $190,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetVirginia Organizing Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of the Earth: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPact Collective: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCommunities for a Better Environment: $40,327 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Commonwealth Club - World Affairs of California: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTetiaroa Society: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYellowhammer Fund: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Brigid Alliance Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSogorea Te Land Trust: $29,480 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Housing Action Coalition: $29,080 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWestern Regional Advocacy Project: $28,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetRedford Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJobs with Justice San Francisco: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDeep South Center for Environmental: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMidwest Access Coalition: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCalifornia Environmental Justice Alliance: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Battery Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGoodpower Education Fund Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Network of Abortion Funds Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Stewardship Network: $17,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCenter for Biological Diversity Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMagnolia Tree Earth Center of Bedford Stuyvesant: $13,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThe Descendants Project: $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Film Collaborative Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hack Foundation D/B/A Hack Club: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBroadleaf Health and Education Alli: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $1,665 over 1y, 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 33.

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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.

Resources Legacy FundCA21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Resources Legacy Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Windward Fund · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Sierra Club · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Kresge 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 Erol Foundation US?

Find your warmest path to Erol Foundation US 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 Erol Foundation US

How much does Erol Foundation US give?
Erol Foundation US reported 22 grants totaling $788,992 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Erol Foundation US fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (49%), Philanthropy (17%), Health (10%).
Who are Erol Foundation US's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Honor the Earth ($300k), The Partnership Project Inc ($300k), Practice Greenhealth ($225k).
Does Erol Foundation US fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Erol Foundation US accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Erol Foundation US?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Resources Legacy Fund, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Windward Fund.
Where is Erol Foundation US based?
Erol Foundation US is based in CA.

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 39 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-PF 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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