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Teddy Ebersol's Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of Teddy Ebersol's Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Telluride Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Teddy Ebersol's Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $229k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k5 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOTRE DAME - DPAC | $50,000 |
| MARTIN RICHARD FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LARC | $50,000 |
| TELLURIDE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| WASHINGTON MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| EDDIE'S HOUSE | $5,000 |
| AFS-USA INC | $5,000 |
| JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PREP FOR PREP | $2,500 |
| CONNECTICUT WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TATHE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +25%
- EHEDDIES HOUSE5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue ×37
- TJTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +212%
Funded once
- FWFARM & WILDERNESS ROADone grant, 2017 · $100k
- TTTHE TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +99%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The rodel institute is a nonpartisan center for leadership and intellectual growth. rodel helps america's most promising leaders reach their full potential as public servants, deepen their commitment to democracy and the rule of law,…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Our mission: the winsor school prepares young women to pursue their aspirations and contribute to the world.
We empower young people to explore and grow their unique intellectual, ethical, and creative capabilities, and to treasure diversity and growth in others.
Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…
A pre-kindergarten through grade 8 independent school committed to academic excellence and the joy of childhood, fostering intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and the development of the whole child.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
The walden school engages in the education of preschool through 5th grade children using a montessori based philosophy.
Students discover their authentic selves and distinctive paths to become empathetic, creative thinkers who act boldly to shape our shared future. see schedule o
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Montessori Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Edible Schoolyard Project dba the Alice Waters Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARTIN W RICHARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON MONTESSORI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDDIES HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute ↗
- Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds THE TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AFS-USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Teddy Ebersol's Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Arc of Litchfield County Inc — 97% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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