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Esgar Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$131k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$131k
Largest
01What you fund
0168% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Education$76kReligion$19kHealth$14kFood & Nutrition$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kRecreation & Sports$3kArts & Culture$1kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$131,050
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEE$131,050
02The need
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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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA CAMPUS PANTRY: $1k → 15%JOSLYN CASTLE: $1k → 12%GRACE LUBBOCK HOMESCHOOL GROUP: $5k → 17%MEDICAL ARTS HEALTH CLINIC: $3k → 22%OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE STATE: $1k → 13%IK CO LOCAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (7539): $1k → 10%HIGH PLAINS PUBLIC RADIO: $500 → 12%SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE: $131k → 3%GRAND FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT 1: $2k → 7%GREATER EUROPE MISSION: $2k → 9%FOOD BANK FOR LARIMER COUNTY: $6k → 11%REACH DURANGO: $3k → 12%WESLEY CU: $500 → 12%FIRST UNITED CHURCH OF PUEBLO: $500 → 15%PROWERS MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 19%SEE ATTACHED STATEMENT 13: $264k → 27%REID PARK ZOO: $1k → 15%WESLEY FOUNDATION - TEXAS TECH: $4k → 17%CAMP COLORADO CHURCH OF THE BRETHER: $7k → 3%RIST CANYON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME: $2k → 11%CSU PUEBLO: $1k → 15%AVMPE: $1k → 19%SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE: $252k → 27%POUDRE CANYON FIRE DISTRICT: $2k → 11%LAMAR MOPS: $1k → 19%SEE: $131k → 27%FIRST UMC CHILD MINISTRY & YOUTH: $2k → 11%PMC HOPITAL AUXILIARY: $1k → 19%WILEY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL: $64k → 27%PROWERS AREA IMAGINATION LIBRARY: $800 → 19%LAMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 27%LAMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $600 → 19%WILEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $4k → 27%LAMAR AREA HOSPICE: $500 → 19%WILEY FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLE: $1k → 27%CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTERY OF SE CO: $500 → 19%WILEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 27%LAMAR ROTARY CLUB: $273 → 19%WILEY RECREATIONAL DEPARTMENT: $500 → 27%PANTHER GRANT WILEY SCHOOL: $500 → 27%WILEY LIONS CLUB: $250 → 27%FIVE LOAVES PANTRY: $500 → 27%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.

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.

03Your 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.

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Faith Bible Church Atx

The church exists to glorify God and make disciples of Jesus Christ

Religion
2
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
3
Remnant University

Providing students with evangelical education in order to bring them up as godly servants and to glorify God

Religion
4
The Grace Message

The Grace Message exists to share the hope and encouragement found in the New Covenant message of Gods grace by helping people embrace the finished work of Christ, walk in their new identity, and enjoy freedom from lifeless religion.

Religion
5
Lamar County Food Pantry Inc

To feed the hungry of lamar county with no regard to race, religion, sex or country of orgin. to deliver the food as efficiently as possible always being cognizant of the resources we have been given.

Food & Nutrition
6
Waco 40 Days
Civil Rights
7
Wayland Baptist University

Wayland baptist university exists to educate students in an academically challenging, learning focused and distinctively christian environment for professional success and service to god and humankind.

Education
8
Garrison Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Texas Land Conservancy

To conserve natural areas in Texas and to protect the physical and ecological integrity of their wildlife habitat, native plant communities, and scenic landscapes for the benefit of present and future generations.

Environment
10
Road Runners Club of America North Texas Trail Runners

North Texas Trail Runners will serve as leaders in the trail running community in north Texas and beyond by creating, supporting, and enhancing the sport

11
Exodus Retreat

The exodus retreat connects first year students at tcu to the gospel and the christian community through local churches.

Religion
12
The Gov Dolph Briscoe Tx Agr Life Leadership Fdn Inc

Education

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech and the most unlike its peers is Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 40 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SEE — $131,050 · OtherSEEWILEY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL — $63,500 · OtherWILEY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLPROWERS MEDICAL CENTER — $10,000 · Other+30 more — $41,633 · Other+30 moreThe Food Bank for Larimer County — $6,000 · Food & NutritionGraceLubbock Homeschool Group — $5,000 · EducationWesley Foundation at Texas Tech — $3,500 · ReligionGREATER EUROPE MISSION — $1,500 · ReligionLAMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $4,535 · PhilanthropyRIST CANYON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $2,000 · Public Safety & DisasterREID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $1,000 · Animals
Other$246,183Food & Nutrition$6,000Education$5,000Religion$5,000Philanthropy$4,535Public Safety & Disaster$2,000Animals$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGraceLubbock Homeschool Group — $5,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetLAMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $4,535 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWesley Foundation at Texas Tech — $3,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetROAD RUNNERS CLUB OF AMERICA — $3,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRIST CANYON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County
  • Who funds GraceLubbock Homeschool Group
  • Who funds LAMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech
  • Who funds ROAD RUNNERS CLUB OF AMERICA
  • Who funds RIST CANYON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • Who funds GREATER EUROPE MISSION
  • Who funds REID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 organization Esgar 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Esgar Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Esgar 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 40 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $264k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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