· Private foundation
Esbenshade Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $251k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| USGA | $100,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| WOOD COUNTY SCHOOLS | $51,450 |
| UNITED WAY ALLIANCE OF THE MOV | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON | $12,500 |
| JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF VIENNA | $5,000 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $269k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DUKE UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $385k · revenue +49%- THTHE HILL SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $112k · revenue +17%
- MCMarietta College4× · 2020–2023 · $43k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- JCJOHN CHAMBERS COLLEGE OF B AND Eone grant, 2022 · $210k
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue -17%
- CCCLEVELAND CLINICone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The mission of the organization is to provide physicians and other healthcare professionals to support the needs of the community, as well as the academic mission of the vcu school of medicine.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 36 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Marietta College ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF VIENNA ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Hills Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds PARKERSBURG AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC (PREVIOUSLY PACF INC) ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Esbenshade Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Esbenshade Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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