· Private foundation
Essendant Charitable Foundation Attn Tax
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of ESSENDANT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ATTN TAX’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k120 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $72k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF HOPE | $63,035 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - CHICAGO | $22,795 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC | $15,000 |
| WORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL | $14,250 |
| ISSA CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC | $10,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF SAC & N CA | $7,500 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TOTAL | $4,300 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN FOUNDATION INC | $2,900 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA | $2,500 |
| HANOVER TOWNSHIP FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE JOSSELYN CENTER | $2,500 |
| RENAISSANCE ACADEMY TOTAL | $2,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC | $2,000 |
| ST PETER & PAUL PARISH OUTREACH | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those 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 +31% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
149 repeat relationships — 91 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 33 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +38%
- FWFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +101%
- FSFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY3× · 2020–2023 · $12k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- KAKIDS AROUND THE WORLD INCone grant, 2022 · $9k
- RFREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +242%
- WBWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTERone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -60%
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.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Provide services in response to individual need
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Shelter's mission is to end the cycle of child abuse by providing a comprehensive network of support to children, their families, and our community to create safe, health, and nurturing homes.
Sheltercare offers a variety of housing and support services for people who are homeless or those facing homelessness with a committed focus on the community's most vulnerable individuals dealing with psychiatric disabilities, acquired…
Compass family services helps homeless families and those at imminent risk to achieve housing stability, economic self-sufficiency, and well-being.
See schedule oadvancing physical and emotional safety by reducing the impact and occurrence of sexual and domestic violence, human trafficking and stalking through inclusive intervention and prevention services for children, youth, and…
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jazz for Prostate Cancer Awareness. 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 29 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
225 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 225 of the 327 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds ISSA Charities ↗
- Who funds META FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE PADS INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA INC ↗
- Who funds Hanover Township Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds Chicago Dream Center ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCEVILLE COOPERATIVE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MENDING-THE-GAP INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Victims First Inc ↗
- Who funds PADS Lake County Inc ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
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: 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
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 Essendant Charitable Foundation Attn Tax 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.
- Nupath Inc — 84% of income from government
- Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc — 40% of income from government
- Interseminarian - Project Place Inc — 32% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore — 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Elijahs Promise Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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