· Private foundation
ES3 Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dodgen Family | $30,024 |
| Lopez Family | $26,727 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | $24,000 |
| Columbia University | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,824 |
| Morgan County Jr Livetock Associati | $13,000 |
| Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Ut | $12,700 |
| St Mark Catholic Church | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,662 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,257 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,585 |
| Gail Halverson Aviation Educational | $2,575 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,560 |
| Weber Junior Livestock Association | $1,540 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -75% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 17 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSETON HALL UNIVERSITY3× · 2021–2023 · $65k · revenue +39%
- T1THE 1915 SOCIETY INC2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +118%
- AHAEROSPACE HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF UT5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The university is a comprehensive university affiliated with the south carolina baptist convention offering bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees. located on approximately 398 acres in the upstate region of south carolina near the…
Charleston southern university (csu) is a private, four-year co-educational institution organized under the laws of the state of south carolina as a non-profit organization and sponsored by the south carolina baptist convention. the…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE 1915 SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds AEROSPACE HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF UT ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WEBER JUNIOR LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEARLS OF VISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization ES3 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from ES3 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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