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Essendant Charitable Foundation Attn Tax

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$223k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
126
Grants FY2024
123
Organizations funded FY2023
46%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$63,035
Organizations funded a year
112 to 144
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
23
Total assets, FY2024
$2.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 46% of the organizations Essendant Charitable Foundation Attn Tax 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; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterArts & CultureInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving124$208k27%
FY2023123$175k46%
FY2022112$172k38%
FY2021118$223k38%
FY2020144$238kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$207kInternational$178kHuman Services$153kHealth$133kPhilanthropy$132kPublic Safety & Disaster$97kFood & Nutrition$60kHousing & Shelter$48kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 245 grantees
All grantees of Essendant Charitable Foundation Attn Tax by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$29,60630%
Free Wheelchair Mission$20,20020%
ISSA Charities$20,00031%
Meta Foundation$16,00056%
United States Fund for Unicef$14,25020%
Blood Cancer United Inc$13,05040%
Team Rubicon Inc$12,75020%
Family Service of Lake County$12,00030%
Dupage Pads Inc$11,00050%
Save The Children Federation Inc$11,00020%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Sacramento Area Inc$9,25042%
Hanover Township Foundation$8,70042%
The Josselyn Center Nfp$7,50020%
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Inc$7,00010%
Chicago Dream Center$7,00021%
Family & Community Services Inc$5,75020%
Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry Inc$5,70050%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$5,65030%
Trevor Project Inc$5,60020%
Mending-The-Gap Inc$5,35050%
Women's Business Development Center$5,00010%
Victims First Inc$5,00010%
PADS Lake County Inc$4,70010%
The Houston Food Bank$4,65010%
American Heart Association Inc$4,35050%
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc$4,00040%
The Humanitarian Service Project$4,00030%
Autism Speaks Inc$4,00050%
The Lambs Farm Inc$4,00010%
The Gene Roman Family Foundation$3,50045%
Helene Cody Foundation Inc$3,5004n/a
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$3,39540%
Matthew Shepard Foundation$3,35010%
Samaritan's Purse$3,30050%
Feed My Starving Children Inc$3,05010%
Madonna of the Streets Inc$3,00010%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$3,00030%
Gratitude Generation Inc$3,00011%
Wounded Heroes Fund Kern County$3,00011%
Woburn Council of Social Concern Inc$3,00020%
A Soldiers Child Inc$2,80040%
Rainbow Village Inc$2,75050%
Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank$2,50010%
Inner-City Computer Stars Foundation$2,50010%
Kids Around the World Inc$2,50010%
Soldiers' Angels$2,50040%
youthSpark Inc$2,50020%
Byron Saunders Foundation$2,50030%
Community Action Service Center Dba Rise$2,50020%
The Young Men's Christian Association of the Capital District (4416)$2,40030%
Emerald Care International$2,4005n/a
Sharehouse Inc$2,35030%
Young Survival Coalition Inc$2,25010%
Connections Homes Inc$2,10050%
March of Dimes Inc$2,10050%
Kids' Food Basket Inc$2,08620%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc$2,05040%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$2,00020%
Wellspring Living Inc$2,00050%
Greene County Women's League Cancer Patient Aid$2,00041%
Hope Project of Wny Inc$2,0001n/a
Friends of Childrens Justice Center$2,00010%
Violets Kitchen$2,0002n/a
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services$2,00020%
Blue Star Mothers of America Inc$2,0004n/a
Better Beginnings Day Care Center$2,00030%
Union Station Homeless Services$1,90730%
Food Lifeline$1,80020%
Breakthrough T1d$1,80050%
The Emergency Assistance Center Inc$1,75020%
The Open Door$1,65030%
Society of St Vincent de Paul (Svdp) Rhode Island$1,60010%
Dwyerfire Goldstar Foundation Inc$1,56111%
Youth Core Ministries Inc$1,55050%
Habitat for Humanity Lake County$1,50010%
Capital City Gospel Mission$1,5003n/a
Pace Charter School of Hamilton$1,50020%
United Against Poverty Inc$1,50010%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Oregon and Southwest Washington$1,50010%
Rise$1,50020%
Weave Inc$1,50020%
The Dougy Center Inc$1,50010%
Officer Joshua Miktarian Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc$1,5001n/a
Endure Athletics Foundation Inc$1,50020%
Multi-Service Center$1,50010%
Life Chapel$1,3004n/a
The Simple Room$1,30050%
Cradles to Crayons Inc$1,30010%
Studio Tenn Theatre Company$1,30020%
Nupath Inc$1,25020%
Harley Helping Hands Incorporated$1,25022%
Edens Glory$1,20050%
Lemuel Rhodes Cancer Foundation$1,20051%
Friends U Need Club Inc$1,10030%
Gwinnett Hospital System Foundation Inc$1,05030%
United Church Home Society Inc$1,01611%
Second Harvest Heartland$1,00530%
Middle Tennessee Network Association$1,0001n/a
The Doctor Theodore a Atlas Foundation Inc$1,00020%
Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund$1,00010%
Sacramento Loaves & Fishes$1,00020%
Fathers and Sons Together$1,00030%
Vet Service Dogs Nfp$1,00011%
La Casa Norte$1,00010%
Black Ensemble Theater Corporation$1,00020%
Habitat for Humanity Buffalo Inc$1,00010%
New York Road Runners Inc$1,00010%
Jack and Jill of America Foundation Inc$1,00010%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$1,00020%
Concord Missionary Baptist Church$1,0001n/a
Core Uganda$1,00011%
Polish Community Center of Buffalo Inc$1,00010%
The Community Hospice Inc$1,00020%
Hopes Mission of Greene County Inc$1,0002n/a
New Direction Community Development Corporation$1,0002n/a
Midwest Shelter for Homeless Veterans Inc$1,00010%
Yxplosion LLC$1,00021%
Mount Olive Baptist Church$1,0001n/a
Roswell Park Alliance Foundation$1,00010%
Elijahs Promise Inc$1,00020%
Outreach Community Ministries$1,00010%
Kamerons Krusaders$1,0001n/a
Mary's Place Seattle$1,00020%
Crusaders Church West$1,0001n/a
Shadow Vets$1,0001n/a
Wings Program Inc$1,00010%
Kellsie's Hope Foundation Inc NFP$95040%
People Serving People Charities Inc$93520%
Community Link Inc$90050%
Babies of Homelessness$90020%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$80320%
Love Family Christian Foundation Inc$8001n/a
Unlimited Play Inc$80020%
Sharing and Caring Hands Inc$80020%
AARP Foundation$80020%
Santa Claus Girls of Kent County$80020%
Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill$80040%
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore$80020%
Nashville Rescue Mission$79620%
Interseminarian - Project Place Inc$75010%
Advocates for Trans Equality Education Fund$75010%
The Restore Network$70030%
International Foundation For CDKL5 Research$70030%
Moraine Township Charitable Fund Charitable Fund$70010%
Food for Greater Elgin Inc$70010%
Community Action of Greene County Inc$70010%
Window to the World Communications Inc$65020%
Ronald McDonald House Global$60040%
International Disaster Emergency Service Inc$60020%
Bloom Recovery Inc$6001n/a
Share Our Strength$60010%
Christian Activity Center$60040%
Pocahontas-Old Ripley Volunteer Fireman & EMS$6004n/a
Haven Youth and Family Services Inc$60010%
This Able Veteran$60040%
Leaps of Love Inc$60040%
Corewell Health$59010%
Community Emergency Assistance Programs Inc$55020%
The Salvation Army$5501n/a
Music Is Art$50710%
City Mission Society Inc$50610%
The Salvation Army$5031n/a
Sacramento Stand Down Association Inc$50010%
Four Paws to Freedom$50011%
Kiwanis Family House$50010%
Gateway Pregnancy Centers$50010%
South Central Illinois Law Dogs$5003n/a
Best Buddies International Inc$50010%
Share$50010%
Wellspring Women's Center$50010%
Active Heroes Inc$50030%
Ora Lee Smith Cancer Research Foundation$50010%
Stars Family Services$50010%
World Baseball Outreach$50010%
Operation Homefront Inc$50010%
Epilepsy Foundation of Northern California$50010%
Fill a Heart 4 Kids$50010%
Troopathon$50010%
Children's Museum of Oak Park$50010%
Live4tay Foundation$50011%
The Gathering Inn$50010%
Meals on Wheels by ACC$50010%
Childrens Receiving Home of Sacramento$50010%
Lazarus House$50010%
Family Tree Inc$50010%
My Sisters House Inc$5001n/a
Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc$50010%
Sacramento Hospice Consortium$5001n/a
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County$50010%
Table to Table Inc$50010%
Jazz for Prostate Cancer Awareness$5001n/a
South Central Industries Inc$50010%
Atlanta Neuroscience Institute Inc$50010%
Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc$50010%
Keisha Worthington- Martinez Foundation$5001n/a
Stanford Settlement Inc$50010%
Four Block Foundation Inc$50010%
Nicolaus Copernicus School of Polish Language$50010%
Family Shelter Service Inc$50010%
Fords Middle School PTO Inc$5001n/a
Embrace Relief Foundation Inc$50010%
Wayfinder Family Services$50010%
Foundation Aiding the Elderly$50010%
California ReLeaf$50010%
Cool Ministries$45010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$40010%
COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association$40010%
Sexual Assault & Family Emergencies Center$40030%
Vandalia Association of Churches$3131n/a
Bond County Senior Center$31310%
Collaborative Community Mission$3001n/a
Lettum Eat Inc$30010%
Special Olympics Georgia Inc$30010%
Southern Crescent Veterans Services Inc$3001n/a
Donate Life America$30010%
American Thyroid Association$30030%
BIMA Services$3001n/a
Seattles Union Gospel Mission$3001n/a
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc$30030%
Lydia Place$30010%
Spina Bifida Association of America$30030%
Habitat for Humanity Seattle-King County$30010%
Transforming Leaders Academy Inc$30010%
Christian Social Services of Illinois$30030%
Salvation Army$2901n/a
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland & Nw Indiana$25010%
Nourish Pierce County$25010%
Easter Seals Inc$25010%
Midland Public Schools$2501n/a
Fisher House Foundation Inc$25010%
Run for the Fallen Inc$25011%
Byron C Glenn III Foundation$2501n/a
Mens Wear Incorporated$25010%
United Way of Monmouth and Ocean Counties$25010%
Rhode Island Hospital$25010%
Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network$20020%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$20020%
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc$20010%
Sarcoma Foundation of America$20020%
Children's Tumor Foundation$20020%
Songs of Love Foundation$20010%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$20020%
Family YMCA of Fayette County$10010%
Veterans Community Project$10010%
Chakota Therapeutic Riding Center NFP$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 77 recipients with no EIN on record ($524k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Essendant Charitable Foundation Attn Tax supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $29,606 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFree Wheelchair Mission: $20,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetISSA Charities: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMeta Foundation: $16,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $14,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $13,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Rubicon Inc: $12,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Service of Lake County: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDupage Pads Inc: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Sacramento Area Inc: $9,250 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetHanover Township Foundation: $8,700 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetThe Josselyn Center Nfp: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRegional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Dream Center: $7,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFamily & Community Services Inc: $5,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLawrenceville Cooperative Ministry Inc: $5,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $5,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $5,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMending-The-Gap Inc: $5,350 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWomen's Business Development Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVictims First Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPADS Lake County Inc: $4,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $4,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Humanitarian Service Project: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lambs Farm Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gene Roman Family Foundation: $3,500 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $3,395 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMatthew Shepard Foundation: $3,350 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $3,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $3,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMadonna of the Streets Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGratitude Generation Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWounded Heroes Fund Kern County: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWoburn Council of Social Concern Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA Soldiers Child Inc: $2,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRainbow Village Inc: $2,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAkron-Canton Regional Foodbank: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInner-City Computer Stars Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKids Around the World Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSoldiers' Angels: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetyouthSpark Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetByron Saunders Foundation: $2,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Action Service Center Dba Rise: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA22.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · United Way California Capital Region · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Kelly Foundation · Deacon Charitable Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · AbbVie Foundation · Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation · Teichert Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services

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.

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How do I get to Essendant Charitable Foundation Attn Tax?

Find your warmest path to Essendant Charitable Foundation Attn Tax 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.

About Essendant Charitable Foundation Attn Tax

How much does Essendant Charitable Foundation Attn Tax give?
Essendant Charitable Foundation Attn Tax reported 126 grants totaling $223,056 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 112 and 144 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Essendant Charitable Foundation Attn Tax fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (19%), International (16%), Human Services (14%).
Who are Essendant Charitable Foundation Attn Tax's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($30k), Free Wheelchair Mission ($20k), ISSA Charities ($20k).
Does Essendant Charitable Foundation Attn Tax fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Essendant Charitable Foundation Attn Tax accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Essendant Charitable Foundation Attn Tax?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sacramento Region Community Foundation, Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company, United Way California Capital Region.
Where is Essendant Charitable Foundation Attn Tax based?
Essendant Charitable Foundation Attn Tax is based in IL.

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 327 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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