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.

Essman Family Charitable Foundation

Essman Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$4k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% 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

02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$189k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$4,000
Individual grant recipient	$504

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$103k · 36 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$103k

$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+5%

Still filing today

67%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalHealthOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

JC
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
2× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +13%
MU
Maryville University - St Louis
5× · 2017–2021 · $11k · revenue +38%
JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS
4× · 2018–2022 · $6k · revenue +8%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $10k
JO
JCC OF STL ATTN LYNN WITTELS
one grant, 2021 · $5k
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -51%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Jewish Federation of St Louis

Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.

Philanthropy

University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education

Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education

St Louis Jewish Light

The st. louis jewish light is a non-profit, independent news source whose mission is to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the st. louis jewish community.

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Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc

Religion

The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services of St Louis; the most unlike its peers is Camp for All Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/40

Grantees still filing

29/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$72,892Education$22,550Human Services$22,500Civil Rights$10,000International$7,750Arts & Culture$4,100Health$4,036

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Essman Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Essman Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

13report 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

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home