Delaware · Private foundation
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
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2022
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2022
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 43
- FY2019 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 15
- Total assets, FY2022
- $173k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 60% of the organizations The Esperance Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 43 | $284k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $871k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $882k | 81% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.
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, FY2019 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities Inc | $670,500 | 4 | 10% |
| Leelanau Conservancy | $375,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $355,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lafayette College | $252,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Nutrition Association Inc | $140,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Acnpe | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation | $90,000 | 3 | 32% |
| Mercy for Animals Inc | $76,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Title Track | $52,000 | 2 | 20% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($735k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Esperance Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 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: 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
How this is measured
Compare The Esperance Family Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About The Esperance Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Esperance Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Esperance Family Foundation Inc reported 45 grants totaling $284,250 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 43 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2022.
- What does The Esperance Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2022, its largest causes are Environment (34%), Education (31%), Health (19%).
- Who are The Esperance Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2022: Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities Inc ($671k), Leelanau Conservancy ($375k), Regents of the University of Michigan ($355k).
- Does The Esperance Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Esperance Family Foundation Inc 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 The Esperance Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation, Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation.
- Where is The Esperance Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Esperance Family Foundation Inc is based in DE.
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