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The Double E-Foundation at a glance

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The Double E-Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$4k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$48kInternational$45kCrime & Legal$35kCivil Rights$30kPublic Benefit$29kEnvironment$25kFood & Nutrition$22kEducation$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$619k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JHPIEGO$4,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$2,000
WATER FOR PEOPLE$2,000
THE BAIL PROJECT$2,000
PACIFIC CLINICS$2,000
INNOCENCE PROJECT$2,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$2,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH$2,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$2,000
A SENSE OF HOME$2,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$2,000
COMPASSION AND CHOICES$2,000
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE$2,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$2,000
AMERICANS UNITED FOR THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%A SENSE OF HOME: $2k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%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

WI
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DC
AL
TX
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$227k · 21 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
12

Total granted

$227k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+47%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsInternationalHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesCrime & 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

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
    7× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +315%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $20k · revenue +41%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • DH
    DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +47%
  • YL
    YALE LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • PF
    PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -43%
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.

1
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
2
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
3
Federation for American Immigration Reform

The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.

International
4
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
5
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
6
Parliamentarians for Global Action

Parliamentarians for global action (pga) is a non-partisan ngo network of legislators from all regions of the world acting in their individual capacity to advocate for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law; peace and human security;…

International
7
Free Press

Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…

Arts & Culture
8
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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9
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
10
Free Press Action Fund

Free press action fund fights for your rights to connect and communicate. we fight to save the free and open internet, curb runaway media consolidation, protect press freedom, and promote digital civil rights. we believe that change…

Civil Rights
11
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
12
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for the American Way; the most unlike its peers is The Nroc Project. 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

28 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. 28 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $21,984 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKAMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION: $13,000 · OtherAMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATIONPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $10,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $6,300 · OtherLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUNDAMERICANS UNITED FOR THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: $5,755 · OtherAMERICANS UNITED FOR THE SEPARATION OF CHUR…YALE LAW SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY: $4,000 · OtherJHPIEGO CORPORATION: $4,000 · OtherCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $11,750 · OtherCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUNDTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $6,000 · OtherTHE BAIL PROJECT INCHIGH GROUND INSTITUTE INC: $3,500 · Other+9 more: $11,250 · Other+9 morePLOUGHSHARES FUND INC: $30,500 · InternationalPLOUGHSHARES FUND INCHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $11,500 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INCTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $10,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED…Committee to Bridge the Gap: $2,500 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $17,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTIC…COMPASSION & CHOICES: $16,500 · Civil RightsCOMPASSION & CHOICESFair Elections Center: $10,500 · Civil RightsFair Elections Cente…PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Civil RightsPEOPLE FOR THE AMERI…+1 more: $350 · Civil RightsNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $19,500 · Environment+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $13,000 · EducationThe NROC Project: $2,500 · EducationTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesA SENSE OF HOME: $2,000 · Human ServicesDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 · HealthPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $1,000 · Health
Other$102,539International$54,500Civil Rights$49,350Environment$20,000Education$15,500Human Services$13,500Health$13,500

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 budgetPLOUGHSHARES FUND INC: $30,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $21,984 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $16,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $11,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFair Elections Center: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $6,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJHPIEGO CORPORATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH GROUND INSTITUTE INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCommittee to Bridge the Gap: $2,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACEJAM FOUNDATION: $350 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Double E-Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Double E-Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 65%
  • Jhpiego Corporation: 65% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report 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.

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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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