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Ted & Sara Easley Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$72k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
11
Organizations funded FY2023
73%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 73% of the organizations Ted & Sara Easley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
AnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalHealthOther
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
FY202311$72k73%
FY20224$18k75%
FY20214$56k50%
FY20202$22k50%
FY20193$28k0%
FY20185$10k60%
FY20172$15kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Animals$153kHuman Services$27kReligion$24kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kHealth$5kInternational$4kHousing & Shelter$2k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

OR
MD
KS
TN
DC
OK
AL
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Ted & Sara Easley Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc$143,50071%
Mulherin Custodial Home Inc$20,00011%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$5,00020%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$4,00010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$4,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$4,00010%
Ecumenical Ministries Inc$3,34740%
Project Chimps$2,00010%
North Baldwin Animal Shelter Inc$2,00011%
Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation$2,00010%
Orange Beach Volunteers Fire Department Inc$1,0001n/a
Defenders of Wildlife$1,00010%
A Place of Hope Small Dog Rescue Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ted & Sara Easley Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $143,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetMulherin Custodial Home Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEcumenical Ministries Inc: $3,347 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetProject Chimps: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Baldwin Animal Shelter Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Place of Hope Small Dog Rescue Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 12.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover 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.

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About Ted & Sara Easley Foundation

How much does Ted & Sara Easley Foundation give?
Ted & Sara Easley Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $71,847 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ted & Sara Easley Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Animals (69%), Human Services (12%), Religion (11%).
Who are Ted & Sara Easley Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc ($144k), Mulherin Custodial Home Inc ($20k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($5k).
Does Ted & Sara Easley Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ted & Sara Easley 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 Ted & Sara Easley Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Ted & Sara Easley Foundation based?
Ted & Sara Easley Foundation is based in AL.

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 19 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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