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Esb Charitable Foundation

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.

$20M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$84MEnvironment$83MYouth Development$81MPhilanthropy$55MRecreation & Sports$25MHuman Services$17MSocial Science$13MAnimals$11MOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $250k+20 grants · $20M
$250,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$107M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RILEY & SUSAN BECHTEL FOUNDATION$4,000,000
RAMSAY FAMILY FOUNDATION$4,000,000
LAURAL FOUNDATION$4,000,000
SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION$4,000,000
ACR FOUNDATION$250,000
ROUGH-J-RANCH FOUNDATION$250,000
MEGLBAGL FOUNDATION$250,000
BSB FOUNDATION$250,000
KIRYLE FOUNDATION$250,000
AED FOUNDATION$250,000
THIRD HORIZON FOUNDATION$250,000
ETC FAMILY FOUNDATION$250,000
THE BPB AND HBB FOUNDATION$250,000
BHB FOUNDATION$250,000
MBD & JFD FOUNDATION$250,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $20.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $5k → 8%GALILEE CENTER: $2k → 11%ADOPT-A-NATIVE-ELDER: $1k → 5%GALILEE CENTER: $900 → 11%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $1k → 14%SISTER SONG: $500 → 13%COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY: $500 → 9%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSNS OF THE USA: $5.1M → 14%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSNS OF THE USA: $6.6M → 14%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSNS OF THE USA: $5.2M → 14%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSNS OF THE USA: $100k → 14%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $500 → 17%PACIFICA RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 7%PACIFICA RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 7%PACIFICA RESOURCE CENTER: $500 → 7%TIDES CENTER: $250k → 10%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $1k → 9%CALIFORNIA CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $400k → 10%CHARITY WATER: $1k → 17%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $500 → 10%AL OTRO LADO: $10k → 14%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $1k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $560 → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $450 → 17%CHILDREN NOW: $600k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $500k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $450k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $450k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $450k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $150k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $1k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $800 → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $800 → 10%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $1k → 14%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $600 → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $500 → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $500 → 10%ONE WARM COAT: $500 → 10%BAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $1k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of Esb Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 65% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Esb Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.1% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$329M · 243 repeat orgs$27M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

243 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 222 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

243
262

Total granted

$329M
$27M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+29%

Still filing today

86%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • WF
    WATER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $21M · revenue +7% · 55% of their budget
  • National Council of YMCAs of the USA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $17M · revenue +51%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $16M · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • PC
    PARKS CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2020 · $4.0M · revenue -38% · 45% of their budget
  • MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2.5M · revenue +105%
  • N4
    NATIONAL 4-H COUNCIL
    one grant, 2017 · $1.4M

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.

1
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
3
Sacramento Region Community Foundation

The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.

Philanthropy
4
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
5
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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6
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
7
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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8
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
9
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

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10
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
11
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
12
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samantha and Darren Bechtel Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDomestic Violence ServicesYouth Development CentersSchool Parent OrganizationsPublic Library OperationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Dance Arts OrganizationsLgbtq+ Community SupportOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Pregnancy Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…School District FoundationsLocal History MuseumsYouth Development ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Women & Girls Leadership De…Immigrant Worker SupportFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Arts CentersHealth Access Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and ShelterYouth Sports ProgramsPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity College Foundatio…Independent K-12 SchoolsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr13%28%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%3/492
the rest of the field
14%
26,001/186,486

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.

05the grantee network

457 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 457 of the 531 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
105
Early backer (in before they grew)
445/457
Grantees still filing
330/457
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WESTED — $28,480,659 · OtherWESTEDBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $15,892,758 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAPUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA — $10,747,501 · OtherPUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIARAMSAY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $10,000,000 · OtherRAMSAY FAMILY FOUNDATIONRILEY & SUSAN BECHTEL FOUNDATION — $10,000,000 · OtherRILEY & SUSAN BECHTEL FOUNDATIONLAURAL FOUNDATION — $10,000,000 · OtherLAURAL FOUNDATIONSHENANDOAH FOUNDATION — $10,000,000 · OtherSHENANDOAH FOUNDATIONTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $8,906,087 · OtherTHE FOOTHILLS FOUNDATION — $6,000,000 · Other+77 more — $59,823,569 · Other+77 moreWINDWARD FUND — $23,471,803 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUNDWATER FOUNDATION — $20,850,000 · EnvironmentWATER FOUNDATIONGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY — $10,644,400 · EnvironmentGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PA…OUTWARD BOUND INC — $5,096,883 · EnvironmentOUTWARD BOUND INCPARKS CALIFORNIA — $4,000,000 · EnvironmentNATUREBRIDGE — $3,618,205 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $3,500,400 · EnvironmentSustainable Conservation — $3,082,000 · Environment+18 more — $9,520,205 · Environment+18 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $14,890,406 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUS…Learning Policy Institute — $8,079,036 · EducationLearning Policy I…CALIFORNIA COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS — $7,008,099 · EducationCALIFORNIA COUNTY…The Thacher School Inc — $6,060,000 · EducationThe Thacher Schoo…PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS — $3,050,000 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION — $2,266,489 · Education+34 more — $20,231,352 · Education+34 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $16,220,586 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRL…GIRLS INC — $9,596,035 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $7,634,573 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS E…Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation — $4,102,525 · Youth DevelopmentCalifornian…National 4-H Council — $2,769,685 · Youth DevelopmentNational 4-…+2 more — $1,345,000 · Youth DevelopmentCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $4,524,883 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $1,975,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT — $1,724,650 · PhilanthropyCANDID — $1,176,983 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR EFFECTIVE PHILANTHROPY INC — $910,500 · Philanthropy+27 more — $12,467,700 · PhilanthropyNational Council of YMCAs of the USA — $17,043,806 · Human ServicesCHILDREN NOW — $2,600,000 · Human Services+2 more — $649,994 · Human ServicesPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY — $3,188,039 · AnimalsMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $2,500,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $1,250,000 · Animals+2 more — $250,000 · Animals
Other$169,850,574Environment$83,783,896Education$61,585,382Youth Development$41,668,404Philanthropy$22,779,716Human Services$20,293,800Animals$7,188,039

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWINDWARD FUND — $23,471,803 over 4y, 36% of budgetWATER FOUNDATION — $20,850,000 over 5y, 55% of budgetNational Council of YMCAs of the USA — $17,043,806 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $16,220,586 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $14,890,406 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA — $10,747,501 over 4y, 12% of budgetGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY — $10,644,400 over 4y, 12% of budgetRAMSAY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $10,000,000 over 4y, 69% of budgetRILEY & SUSAN BECHTEL FOUNDATION — $10,000,000 over 4y, 47% of budgetLAURAL FOUNDATION — $10,000,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetSHENANDOAH FOUNDATION — $10,000,000 over 4y, 80% of budgetGIRLS INC — $9,596,035 over 3y, 39% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $8,906,087 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLearning Policy Institute — $8,079,036 over 5y, 18% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $7,634,573 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS — $7,008,099 over 3y, 43% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc — $6,060,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetTHE FOOTHILLS FOUNDATION — $6,000,000 over 3y, 86% of budgetCORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $5,130,600 over 4y, 82% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND INC — $5,096,883 over 3y, 43% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $4,524,883 over 4y, 29% of budgetCalifornians Dedicated to Education Foundation — $4,102,525 over 4y, 22% of budgetPARKS CALIFORNIA — $4,000,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE — $3,618,205 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $3,500,400 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY — $3,188,039 over 3y, 13% of budgetSustainable Conservation — $3,082,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS — $3,050,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America — $2,825,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetNational 4-H Council — $2,769,685 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $2,656,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCHILDREN NOW — $2,600,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $2,500,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION — $2,266,489 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL — $2,045,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $1,975,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $1,902,040 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetCOACHING CORPS — $1,877,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetTHE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT — $1,724,650 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES — $1,700,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR TEACHER RESIDENCIES — $1,637,034 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS — $1,568,613 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $1,528,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE COMMONWEALTH CLUB - WORLD AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA — $1,525,590 over 3y, 15% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,471,450 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC — $1,446,102 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetTen Strands — $1,319,626 over 4y, 24% of budgetNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $1,250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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.

The William & Flora H…The James Irvine Foun…The San Francisco Fou…East Bay Community Fo…The California Endowm…The California Wellne…The David and Lucile …The Heising-Simons Fo…Elbridge Stuart Found…Gordon E and Betty I …Jewish Community Fede…Marin Community Found…
The William & Flora Hewlett FoundationCA79.7× affinity75 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community 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 organization Esb Charitable 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
  • Campus Compact — 1% of income from government
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Esb Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Esb Charitable Foundation 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 531 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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