How much did ESA'S FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

ESA'S FOUNDATION reported 1 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is ESA'S FOUNDATION based?

ESA'S FOUNDATION is based in DC.

ESA'S FOUNDATION

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· Public charity

ESA'S FOUNDATION

The esa foundation harnesses the power of the video game industry to benefit students, schools, and charities, with the ultimate goal of improving the lives of america's youth and setting them on career paths.

$10k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$10k

Largest

01What you fund

0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Education$306kCivil Rights$114kYouth Development$60kArts & Culture$55kCommunity Improvement$40kRecreation & Sports$30kSocial Science$25kPhilanthropy$22kEmployment$15kOther$203k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

degreeprofessionalchildren's miracleliberaleducationalpreparedpersonal

2021

education

2022

december digital

2023

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2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

GAY GAMING PROFESSIONALS$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 85% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$229k · 3 repeat orgs$641k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$229k

$641k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%

+33%

Still filing today

100%

81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePublic BenefitCivil RightsEmploymentOther

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

GG
GAY GAMING PROFESSIONALS
2× · 2023–2024 · $114k · revenue +267% · 27% of their budget
CN
CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
2× · 2018–2019 · $95k · revenue +31%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +62%

Funded once

BG
BLACK GIRLS CODE
one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -8%
I
ICIVICSgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +422%
AA
AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARSgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +84%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Girls Global Academy

See schedule o.girls global academy (gga) is an all-girls public charter high school in washington, dc that engenders empowerment and ignites confidence to influence change for global benefit. all students pursue one of two international…

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Girls in Tech Inc

Girls in tech (git) is a global non-profit focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of girls and women who are passionate about technology. our aim is to accelerate the growth of innovative women who are entering into the…

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Digital Girl Incorporated

Digital Girl, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in Brooklyn, NY. DGI is dedicated to empowering the underserved youth of our communities, especially young girls, to pursue studies and careers in STEM (Science, Technology,…

Education

Girls Incorporated

The organizations mission is to inspire all girls to be strong,smart, and bold, through research-based, innovative, and educational programs and activities.

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Girls in Stem

Human Services

Girls Incorporated of Greater

Girls inc.'s mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. in partnership with schools and community organizations, we focus on the development of the whole girl. she learns to value herself, take risks, and discover and…

Youth Development

International Coalition of Girls Schools

The international coalition of girls' schools (icgs) is the world's leading advocate for girls' schools, uniting educators, researchers, and mission-aligned organizations committed to advancing the education and empowerment of girls.…

Community Improvement

Girls Incorporated of Metropolitan

Our mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. Through the Girls Inc. Experience, our professionally trained staff and volunteers provide mentorship, safe spaces, and programming that address the unique challenges girls…

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Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston

Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston provides research-based programming for girls ages 6-18 covering topics such as anti-bullying, leadership, teamwork, financial literacy, media literacy, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and…

Youth Development

Global Citizens Initiative Inc

Global citizens initiative inc's ("gci") endeavor is to "engage, educate and empower" youth as agents of positive change.

Education

Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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Womens Campaign International

Women's campaign international (wci) empowers girls and women around the world to actively participate and fill leadership roles in the economy, community development, civil society, and pacebuilding efforts.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Kids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/18

Grantees still filing

14/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$306,250Other$264,250Civil Rights$113,814Youth Development$60,000Arts & Culture$55,000Community Improvement$40,000Recreation & Sports$30,000

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.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation ESA'S FOUNDATION 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GAY GAMING PROFESSIONALS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 832884652 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GAY GAMING PROFESSIONALS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 27% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Esa's Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Esa's Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ESA'S FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Esa's Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ESA'S FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Esa's Foundation?

More from the funding graph