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Estelle Funk Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$45k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$141kHuman Services$49kPhilanthropy$47kReligion$44kRecreation & Sports$16kEducation$9kCommunity Improvement$5kCivil Rights$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$1,800
Median grant
3
States reached
$724k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WIEZMANN INSTITUTE$10,000
MAXIMUM HOPE FOUNDATION$10,000
THE JEWISH FEDERATION$5,750
SHALOM INSTITUTE$5,500
STATER BROTHERS CHARITIES$1,800
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE$1,800
ADAT ARI EL$1,800
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$1,800
CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF GRANADA HILLS$1,800
ETTA ISRAEL CENTER$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$1,000
CHABBAD OF SLO AND CAL POLY$1,000
CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA$1,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$750
02The need
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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 (FY20–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%BOYS TOWN: $150 → 12%STATER BROS CHARITIES: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $50 → 14%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $50 → 26%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $2k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$232k · 19 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
66

Total granted

$232k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+26%

Still filing today

47%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CR
    CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +65%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    4× · 2021–2024 · $7k · revenue +35%
  • TA
    TIKVAH-ETTA AND LAZEAR ISRAEL CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • WI
    WEIZMANN INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • FF
    FRONTLINE FOUNDATIONS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • SB
    Stater Bros Charitiesgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +48%
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.

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Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
3
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
4
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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5
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
6
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
7
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
8
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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9
Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health
10
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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11
Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance

To marshal and focus the resources and relationships needed to cure fa by raising funds for research, promoting public awareness and aligning scientists, patients, clinicians, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to…

Health
12
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 90 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/54
Grantees still filing
40/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEIZMANN INSTITUTE: $50,000 · OtherWEIZMANN INSTITUTEAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WIEZMANN INSTITUTE: $40,000 · OtherAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WIEZMANN INSTITUTETHE JEWISH FEDERATION: $37,550 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONIndividual grant recipient: $16,480 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $16,180 · OtherCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INCADAT ARI EL: $8,500 · OtherCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF GRANADA HILLS: $7,718 · Other+49 more: $45,827 · Other+49 moreMAXIMUM HOPE FOUNDATION: $37,500 · HealthMAXIMUM HOPE FOUNDATIONGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC: $27,500 · HealthGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INCBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $6,730 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D+16 more: $5,708 · Health+16 moreSHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER: $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,800 · EducationDE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL: $1,800 · EducationAGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC: $200 · EducationStater Bros Charities: $1,800 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1,800 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $150 · Human Services+4 more: $300 · Human ServicesANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,600 · Civil RightsJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE: $1,800 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING: $100 · Philanthropy+1 more: $50 · Philanthropy
Other$222,255Health$77,438Youth Development$5,500Education$4,800Human Services$4,050Civil Rights$3,600Philanthropy$1,950

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAXIMUM HOPE FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $16,180 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $6,730 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTIKVAH-ETTA AND LAZEAR ISRAEL CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $5,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONEGENERATION: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRONTLINE FOUNDATIONS INC: $2,600 over 1y, 13% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStater Bros Charities: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMacular Degeneration Association: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $228 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $130 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $72 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds MAXIMUM HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds TIKVAH-ETTA AND LAZEAR ISRAEL CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds ONEGENERATION ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRONTLINE FOUNDATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds Stater Bros Charities ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC ↗
  • Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Macular Degeneration Association ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗

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.

Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Federation Cou…California Community …Bob & Nita Hirsch Fam…The Field Family FundThe Stanley & Joyce B…Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · California Community Foundation · Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation · The Field Family Fund · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Estelle Funk Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Estelle Funk Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 90 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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