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The Esperance Family Foundation Inc

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.

$284k
Granted FY2022
45
Grants FY2022
15
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Esperance Family Foundation Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Esperance Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 39 organizations, $284k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

15
’19
25
’20
18
’21
39
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.

Environment$1.1MEducation$1.0MHealth$608kFood & Nutrition$144kHuman Services$129kAnimals$102kInternational$45kPhilanthropy$43kOther$0
02FY2022 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k40 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $73k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$250
Median grant
15
States reached
$173k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GROUNDWORK CENTER FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES INC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER$75,000
KERN ASPEN LIPID CONFERENCE$37,750
TIBETAN NYINGMA RELIEF FOUNDATION$20,000
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET$15,000
MERCY FOR ANIMALS$5,000
WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION$5,000
CHASING TWO RABBITS AT ONCE$5,000
UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION FOR UNHCR$4,000
PSP AND CBD FOUNDATION$4,000
CHASDEI DEVORAH INC$3,500
WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE GRAND TRAVERSE AREA$500
WORLD VISION$500
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC$500
CAPTAIN PLANET FOUNDATION INC$500
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIBETAN NYINGMA RELIEF FOUNDATION: $40k → 10%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $500 → 14%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $250 → 9%TIBETAN NYINGMA RELIEF FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%SUSIE QS KIDS INC: $500 → 10%T WALL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $250 → 14%TIBETAN NYINGMA RELIEF FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%SUSIE QS KIDS INC: $250 → 10%DENVER ACTIVE 20-30 CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $7k → 12%DENVER ACTIVE 20-30 CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%DENVER ACTIVE 20-30 CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%DENVER ACTIVE 20-30 CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%THE WOMENS CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $250 → 14%WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE GRAND TRAVERSE AREA: $2k → 7%WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE GRAND TRAVERSE AREA: $500 → 7%OZONE HOUSE INC: $1k → 14%PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $20k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 26 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2022, 9 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
24

Total granted

$1.9M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+34%

Still filing today

85%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22
InternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

  • GC
    GROUNDWORK CENTER FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $671k · revenue +74%
  • TN
    Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation
    3× · 2020–2022 · $90k · revenue +20% · 32% of their budget
  • MF
    MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $76k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • SM
    STEPHEN M ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS UNIVERSITY OF
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • LC
    LAFAYETTE COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $252k · revenue +43%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +57%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
World Resources Institute

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
2
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
3
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
4
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
5
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
6
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
7
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
8
Nuru International

Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…

International
9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hearts & Bones Animal Rescue. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Christian Missionary Organi…Local Food System Organizat…Youth Sports ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterImmigrant Worker SupportJewish Community Organizati…Lgbtq+ Community SupportDomestic Violence ServicesAddiction Recovery ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Military Veterans SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…Food Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Community College Foundatio…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr13%7%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr15%28%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr18%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr15%6%20–35yr14%58%35–55yr18%31%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/71
the rest of the field
12%
6,511/53,785

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.

04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 78 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/68
Grantees still filing
47/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GROUNDWORK CENTER FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES INC — $670,500 · OtherGROUNDWORK CENTER FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES INCSTEPHEN M ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS UNIVERSITY OF — $500,000 · OtherSTEPHEN M ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS UNIVERSITY OFREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $355,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER — $150,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CARDIOVASCULAR CENTERAMERICAN NUTRITION ASSOCIATION INC — $140,000 · OtherAMERICAN NUTRITION ASSOCIATION INCKERN ASPEN LIPID CONFERENCE — $71,750 · Other+27 more — $156,450 · Other+27 moreLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $252,000 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEGETHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF…ACNPE — $100,000 · EducationACNPE+3 more — $10,250 · EducationLEELANAU CONSERVANCY — $375,000 · EnvironmentLEELANAU CONS…+2 more — $4,000 · EnvironmentTibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation — $90,000 · Human ServicesPeace Neighborhood Center — $20,000 · Human ServicesThe Denver Children's Foundation — $11,000 · Human ServicesT WALL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human Services+7 more — $7,750 · Human ServicesMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC — $76,000 · AnimalsREWILD — $5,250 · AnimalsWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION — $5,000 · Animals+5 more — $3,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $43,269 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $250 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET — $25,000 · InternationalASHOKA — $7,500 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR — $4,000 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $3,500 · InternationalCHASDEI DEVORAH INC — $3,500 · InternationalChildren International — $2,000 · International+8 more — $3,550 · International
Other$2,043,700Education$512,250Environment$379,000Human Services$133,750Animals$89,250Philanthropy$51,519International$49,050

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGROUNDWORK CENTER FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES INC — $670,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetLEELANAU CONSERVANCY — $375,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $252,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN NUTRITION ASSOCIATION INC — $140,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation — $90,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC — $76,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTitle Track — $52,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $43,269 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPackard Health Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPeace Neighborhood Center — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Denver Children's Foundation — $11,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetASHOKA — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIM HIGH SCHOOL — $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREWILD — $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHASING TWO RABBITS AT ONCE — $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF BENTON HARBOR INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD GATHERERS — $3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECOLOGY CENTER — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHASDEI DEVORAH INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER GRAND TRAVERSE AREA — $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE — $2,250 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $2,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GUIDANCE CENTER — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRebel Dogs Detroit Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetChildren International — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPUSHBLACK — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Land Institute — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeutral Zone — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY EDUCATION PROJECT — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOZONE HOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARR COMMONWEALTH — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUSIE QS KIDS INC — $750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $500 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Harry a and Margaret …Ann Arbor Area Commun…James a and Faith Kni…The Buhr FoundationUnited Way of Washten…Michigan Health Endow…Kiwanis Club of Ann A…The Carls FoundationComerica Charitable F…United Way for Southe…The Pfizer Foundation…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI25.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · The Buhr Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor Foundation Inc · The Carls Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Pfizer 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 The Esperance Family Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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How do I get to The Esperance Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Esperance Family Foundation Inc 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 78 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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