· Private foundation
Eskin Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK LIVE ARTS | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF IOWA | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $2,500 |
| RIVERSIDE THEATRE | $2,000 |
| ARTS IOWA CITY | $2,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS INC | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT | $2,000 |
| THE OAKNOLL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE PEACE APPEAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| IOWA UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| IOWA CITY FOREIGN RELATIONS COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA | $565 |
| NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NYNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $298k · revenue +52%
- ARANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER6× · 2017–2022 · $101k · revenue +29%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2022 · $31k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- WCWATERSHED CENTER FOR THE CERAMIC ARTSone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +12%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -4%
- ACASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIESone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
To build and support diverse communities of writers and audiences through the transformative power of story. We lead by inclusion and collaboration, celebrating the emotions, discovery and connections inspired by the written word in all…
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.
Ifac acts in the public interest and has no profit-making purpose. ifac serves the public interest by: speaking out and engaging as the voice for the global profession; leading and developing a future-ready accountancy profession; and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Legal Aid and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Givat Haviva. 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.
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 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
40 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. 40 of the 52 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds WATERSHED CENTER FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARBONDALE CLAY CENTER ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOWWIND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA CITY FOREIGN RELATIONS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds KANEKO ↗
- Who funds LONGHOUSE RESERVE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
- Who funds National Women's Health Network ↗
- Who funds THE OAKNOLL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Johnson County · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Eskin Family 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.
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.