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Esgar Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0168% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$131,050
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEE$131,050
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%PMC HOPITAL AUXILIARY: $1k → 19%SEE: $131k → 27%FIRST UMC CHILD MINISTRY & YOUTH: $2k → 11%LAMAR MOPS: $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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
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

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech; 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 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. 8 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 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 ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Esgar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Esgar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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