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Essman Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 35
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$189k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Essman Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Civil RightsEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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 arriving2$5k0%
FY202312$17k75%
FY202220$11k35%
FY202127$20k7%
FY202027$21k22%
FY201935$20k57%
FY201825$25k68%
FY201715$25kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$26kHuman Services$23kReligion$18kCivil Rights$10kArts & Culture$10kInternational$8kHealth$7kEnvironment$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
NY
MA
IN
CA
MO
VA
MD
AR
NC
DC
LA
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 41 grantees
All grantees of Essman Family Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Community Center$15,00020%
Maryville University - St Louis$10,50050%
Jewish Family Services of St Louis$6,00040%
Logos Inc$5,50060%
Anti-Defamation League$5,00050%
City Academy Inc$4,50060%
Planned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri$4,00040%
The St Louis Children's Choirs$3,60050%
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra$3,50050%
Hias Inc$3,50060%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$3,50040%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$2,50010%
Chabad of Durham Inc$2,4504n/a
Camp Kesem National$1,50030%
Homes for Our Troops Inc$1,25040%
Camp for All Kids$1,15040%
350org$1,00030%
The Haven of Grace$1,00030%
Hillel at Washington University in St Louis$1,00010%
Trustees of Tufts College$1,00010%
Life After Hate Inc$1,00010%
Columbiabarnard Hillel Inc$1,00010%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$1,00010%
Oxfam-America Inc$1,00020%
Galapagos Conservancy Inc$1,00030%
Lift for Life Academy Inc$1,00040%
Camp Rainbow Foundation$1,00030%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$1,00010%
Hillel Foundation at Tufts University Inc$1,00020%
Food Outreach Inc$60030%
Hillel Foundation at Indiana University Inc$50010%
James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association$50010%
Missouri Torah Institute$50010%
Equal Justice Initiative$50020%
St Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum$50010%
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc$50020%
Chabad on Campus Ucsc$3001n/a
Missouri Historical Society$10010%
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Mn Minnesotanorth Dakotasouth Dakota$10010%
Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School$5010%
The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital$3610%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($52k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Essman Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Community Center: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaryville University - St Louis: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family Services of St Louis: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLogos Inc: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCity Academy Inc: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe St Louis Children's Choirs: $3,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Louis Symphony Orchestra: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHomes for Our Troops Inc: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCamp for All Kids: $1,150 over 4y, 0.1% of budget350org: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Haven of Grace: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHillel at Washington University in St Louis: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLife After Hate Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetColumbiabarnard Hillel Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGalapagos Conservancy Inc: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLift for Life Academy Inc: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Rainbow Foundation: $1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHillel Foundation at Tufts University Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFood Outreach Inc: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHillel Foundation at Indiana University Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMissouri Torah Institute: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMissouri Historical Society: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Mn Minnesotanorth Dakotasouth Dakota: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital: $36 over 1y, 0.0% 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 39.

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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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO24.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of St Louis · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Gallop Family Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The William R Orthwein Jr and Laura Rand Orthwein Foundation Inc · The Goldstein Family Foundation · Pott Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation

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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About Essman Family Charitable Foundation

How much does Essman Family Charitable Foundation give?
Essman Family Charitable Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $4,504 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Essman Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (18%), Human Services (16%), Religion (12%).
Who are Essman Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish Community Center ($15k), Maryville University - St Louis ($11k), Jewish Family Services of St Louis ($6k).
Does Essman Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Essman Family Charitable Foundation 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 Essman Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Jewish Federation of St Louis, St Louis Community Foundation.
Where is Essman Family Charitable Foundation based?
Essman Family Charitable Foundation is based in MO.

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 77 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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