New York · Private foundation
Esler 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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 28
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Esler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $315k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $1.3M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $954k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $1.3M | 43% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $1.0M | 86% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $100k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongminds Inc | $730,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Entrepreneurship for All Inc | $725,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Mindful Philanthropy Inc | $335,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Tesseract Research Center Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Nativity School of Worcester Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Nova Southeastern University Inc | $211,000 | 2 | 0% |
| United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc | $161,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Young Life | $132,256 | 2 | 0% |
| Voter Choice Education Fund Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 41% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc | $60,500 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Esler Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Coghlin Services Fund · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Worcester Railers Hc Charitable Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The Fletcher Foundation · Fallon Community Health Plan Inc · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hanover Insurance Group Foundation Inc · The George I Alden Trust · Webster Five Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Esler Family Foundation
- How much does Esler Family Foundation give?
- Esler Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $1,277,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Esler Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Health (22%), Community Improvement (18%).
- Who are Esler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Strongminds Inc ($730k), Entrepreneurship for All Inc ($725k), Mindful Philanthropy Inc ($335k).
- Does Esler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Esler Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Esler Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coghlin Services Fund, Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation, Worcester Railers Hc Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Esler Family Foundation based?
- Esler Family Foundation is based in NY.
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