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Robert McGraw Eichler 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.

$43k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$992k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pacific Northwest Ballet Association$15,000
GSBA Scholarship & Education Fund$5,000
Flying House Productions dba Seattle Chorus$5,000
Emerald City Pet Rescue$3,000
Ellison Ballet Foundation$3,000
Lambert House$3,000
FLIPANY$3,000
Rainbow Family 808$3,000
Planned Parenthood of Illinois$1,500
Center for Reproductive Rights$1,500
02The need
02

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 (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Rainbow Family 808: $3k → 9%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.
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 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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Ballet Elite
Arts & Culture
2
Rainbow Rescues
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3
Pacific Ballet Dance Theatre

To preserve, promote, and present the art of ballet and dance through performances, education, and community outreach, making high-quality cultural experiences accessible to diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
4
Princeton Ballet Society

Princeton ballet society's mission is to nurture a lifelong love of dance and lift the collective spirit through excellent, relevant, and accessible artistic and educational programs, with a focus on classical ballet.

Arts & Culture
5
Ellies Potbellies
Animals
6
Florida Classical Ballet Inc

Ballet instruction - students up to the age of 18

Arts & Culture
7
Kauai Ballet Academy Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
Equality Hi

Equality HI's Mission envisions a thriving and empowering culture that proactively engages in creating an inclusive and diverse queer community through aloha, leadership, resources, services and education.

Human Services
9
Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc

Berkeley Ballet Theater offers the highest quality dance training from beginning to professional levels, supports a preprofessional youth company, introduces ballet to young audiences through an outreach program, is committed to access,…

Arts & Culture
10
Florida Pointer Rescue Inc

Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f

Animals
11
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
12
Coalition for Rainbow Alliances Inc

The Coalition of Rainbow Alliances (CORAL) is a non-profit, volunteer group that facilitates networking and community for the Central Illinois lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, all other sexual and gender minorities, their…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood of Illinois; the most unlike its peers is Emerald City Pet Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 10 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
1/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATIONFlying House Productions dba Seattle Chorus: $5,000 · OtherFlying House Productions dba Seatt…GSBA Scholarship & Education Fund: $5,000 · OtherGSBA Scholarship & Education FundLAMBERT HOUSE: $3,000 · OtherLAMBERT HOUSERAINBOW FAMILY 808COM INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesFLORIDA INTRODUCES PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND NUTRITION TO YOUTH INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionEMERALD CITY PET RESCUE: $3,000 · AnimalsTHE ELLISON BALLET FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · EducationPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $1,500 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,500 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$15,000Other$13,000Human Services$3,000Food & Nutrition$3,000Animals$3,000Education$3,000Health$1,500Civil Rights$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA INTRODUCES PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND NUTRITION TO YOUTH INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAMBERT HOUSE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMERALD CITY PET RESCUE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELLISON BALLET FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,500 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.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2023
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Florida Introduces Physical Activity and Nutrition to Youth Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Robert McGraw Eichler Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert McGraw Eichler Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 10 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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