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Essential Power LLC

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.

$102k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2020–2025.

Health$125kFood & Nutrition$92kEducation$58kRecreation & Sports$55kHuman Services$53kCommunity Improvement$37kCrime & Legal$24kPublic Safety & Disaster$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$3,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$59k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTCHESTER PARKS FOUNDATION INC$15,150
NORTH CHANNEL AREA FOUNDATION$10,000
GATHER$9,000
TIVERTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC$7,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$6,000
BRAVE ENOUGH TO FAIL INC$4,000
CHILD HUNGER OUTREACH PARTNERS$4,000
JCC FUND$3,460
SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY CASA$3,000
WATER WITCH FIRE COMPANY$3,000
DWELL LYCOMING COUNTY$3,000
TOWANDA AREA CHRIST OUTREACH FOOD$3,000
BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND$3,000
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK$3,000
SAYRE HOUSE OF HOPE$3,000
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 (FY20–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 14%TREUTLEN HOUSE AT NEW EBENEZER: $1k → 9%A CHILDS VOICE CHILD ADVOCACY: $3k → 11%FULFILL: $2k → 6%OCEANS HARBOR HOUSE: $1k → 11%GATHER: $9k → 5%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%A CHILDS VOICE CHILD ADVOCACY: $2k → 11%FULFILL: $1k → 6%GATHER: $8k → 5%A CHILDS VOICE CHILD ADVOCACY: $2k → 11%OCEANS HARBOR HOUSE: $550 → 11%GATHER: $6k → 5%YWCA NORTHCENTRAL PA: $4k → 12%GATHER: $5k → 5%DWELL LYCOMING COUNTY: $3k → 12%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $4k → 9%GATHER: $5k → 5%GATHER: $3k → 5%DWELL LYCOMING COUNTY: $2k → 12%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $3k → 9%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

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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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$438k · 39 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
29

Total granted

$438k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+39%

Still filing today

72%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

  • WP
    WESTCHESTER PARKS FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +11%
  • G
    Gather
    6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +181%
  • BP
    BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • WP
    White Plains Hospital Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +47%
  • FW
    FEEDING WESTCHESTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +31%
  • TD
    The Down Syndrome Association of Greater Charlotte Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +53%

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
Child Care of the Berkshires Inc

The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…

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2
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
3
Family & Children Services Inc

Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive program of critical human services.

Human Services
4
David's House Inc

To provide a home away from home and support for families with children receiving treatment through the children's hospital at dartmouth-hitchcock medical center.

Health
5
Children's Advocacy Center of Suffolk County Inc

To unite public, private and community partners to ensure safety, healing and justice for children and families impacted by violence, exploitation and abuse.

Crime & Legal
6
Children's Law Center of New Hampshire

To provide legal representation and social services advocacy to new hampshire low-income and underserved children across multiple legal contexts.

Crime & Legal
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Dover Childrens Home Inc

Provide tools and support for youth to heal from emotional trauma through community-based treatment programs that foster relationships and enable youth to create hope for the future.

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9
Children's Center

Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.

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10
Horizons for Homeless Children

Hhc's mission is to improve the lives of homeless children and their families. hhc provides homeless children in massachusetts with the nurturing, stimulation and opportunities for early education and play that all children need to learn…

Human Services
11
Sussex County Childrens Advocacy

The mission of ginnie's house children's advocacy center is to create a refuge of comfort, healing, hope, and justice for abused children, while providing community education and advocacy to prevent child abuse.

Unclassified
12
Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware

To reduce the devastating long-term effects that child abuse has on children, their families and society through immediate, coordinated, child focused services, education, and advocacy.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sojourner House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eagle Free Library. 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 …Food Banks and PantriesYouth Mentoring ProgramsCancer Support ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Youth Sports ProgramsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Community Arts CentersDomestic Violence ServicesYouth Development CentersEquine Therapy ProgramsUnited Way AffiliatesCommunity Food PantriesLocal History MuseumsSchool District 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/54
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,511

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

51 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. 51 of the 69 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/51
Grantees still filing
34/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WESTCHESTER PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $40,800 · OtherWESTCHESTER PARKS FOUNDATION INCNorth Channel Area Foundation — $37,000 · OtherNorth Channel Area FoundationTOWANDA AREA CHRIST OUTREACH FOOD — $17,000 · OtherTOWANDA AREA CHRIST OUTREACH FOODChildrens Hospital of Phila — $15,500 · OtherChildrens Hospital of PhilaJCC FUND — $15,470 · OtherJCC FUNDRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE INC — $12,400 · OtherFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC — $10,000 · OtherBLACK MOUNTAIN OF MAINE ATTN ROGER ARSENAULT — $12,750 · OtherWATER WITCH FIRE COMPANY INC — $9,000 · Other+30 more — $93,000 · Other+30 moreGather — $36,200 · Human ServicesGatherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National…A Childs Voice Child Advocacy Center In — $7,000 · Human ServicesA Childs Voice Ch…THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR FA…DWELL - LYCOMING COUNTY — $4,500 · Human ServicesDWELL - LYCOMING …YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA — $4,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL — $3,100 · Human Services+3 more — $4,300 · Human Services+3 moreTHE FRANCES FOUNDATION FOR KIDS FIGHTING CANCER INC — $20,500 · HealthTHE FRANCES F…White Plains Hospital Medical Center — $10,000 · HealthWhite Plains …DARE AMERICA — $9,750 · HealthDARE AMERICASAYRE HOUSE OF HOPE — $9,000 · HealthSAYRE HOUSE O…THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC — $5,000 · HealthTHINKBIG PEDI…+4 more — $4,600 · Health+4 moreBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC — $26,500 · PhilanthropyLYCOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY INC — $4,000 · PhilanthropyJOEYS LITTLE ANGELS INC — $2,000 · PhilanthropySHANNON DALEY MEMORIAL FUND INC — $2,000 · PhilanthropyCHRISTMAS BUREAU INCORPORATED — $1,750 · PhilanthropyCHILD HUNGER OUTREACH PARTNERS — $16,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK — $10,000 · Food & NutritionOPERATION STAND DOWN RHODE ISLAND — $24,000 · EmploymentTIVERTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 · EducationBRAVE ENOUGH TO FAIL INC — $7,500 · EducationEAGLE FREE LIBRARY — $1,100 · Education
Other$262,920Human Services$76,100Health$58,850Philanthropy$36,250Food & Nutrition$26,000Employment$24,000Education$21,600

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 budgetWESTCHESTER PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $40,800 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGather — $36,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC — $26,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetOPERATION STAND DOWN RHODE ISLAND — $24,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FRANCES FOUNDATION FOR KIDS FIGHTING CANCER INC — $20,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCHILD HUNGER OUTREACH PARTNERS — $16,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTIVERTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetBLACK MOUNTAIN OF MAINE ATTN ROGER ARSENAULT — $12,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDARE AMERICA — $9,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAYRE HOUSE OF HOPE — $9,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetWATER WITCH FIRE COMPANY INC — $9,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBRAVE ENOUGH TO FAIL INC — $7,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetA Childs Voice Child Advocacy Center In — $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JAPANESE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK — $5,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Down Syndrome Association of Greater Charlotte Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER INC — $4,600 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetDWELL - LYCOMING COUNTY — $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSanta's Helpers — $4,400 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLYCOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDEN AUTISM SERVICES FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE DUNDEE TOWNSHIP — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL — $3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AT HOLYOKE INC — $3,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetProject 2 Heal — $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJOEYS LITTLE ANGELS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSHANNON DALEY MEMORIAL FUND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCITIZEN ADVOCATES INC — $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTMAS BUREAU INCORPORATED — $1,750 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF OCEAN COUNTY INC — $1,550 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOCEAN'S HARBOR HOUSE INC — $1,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLYCOMING COUNTY SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE HOUSE INC — $1,100 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFAITH EQUESTRIAN THERAPEUTIC CENTER INC — $1,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEAGLE FREE LIBRARY — $1,100 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CECIL COUNTY INC — $1,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTREUTLEN HOUSE AT NEW EBENEZER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NIPPON CLUB INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Textron Charitable Tr…First Community Found…Allone CharitiesThe Champlin Foundati…The Gap FoundationCarmax FoundationThe Bank of America C…Enterprise Holdings F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Verizon FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353RI16.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · Allone Charities · The Champlin Foundation · The Gap Foundation · Carmax Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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 Essential Power LLC 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Ocean's Harbor House Inc — 75% of income from government
  • The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 69 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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