Georgia · Private foundation
The E&SS Foundation Inc
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.
- $26M
- Granted FY2021
- 36
- Grants FY2021
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2021
Read this first · the figures below need context
57% of The E&SS Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 16 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The E&SS Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 33 organizations, $26M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2021
- $247,000
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $7,200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 33
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 10
- Total assets, FY2021
- $93M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 58% of the organizations The E&SS Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 33 | $19M | 58% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $6.4M | 64% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $12M | 81% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $990k | 79% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $13M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palm Beach Day Academy Inc | $18,016,930 | 4 | 17% |
| Trinity Episcopal School | $4,999,999 | 3 | 3% |
| Tiger Foundation | $3,318,000 | 4 | 17% |
| Beaverton High School Success Fund | $2,800,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Cornell University | $2,600,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Morasha Olami Inc | $2,160,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Share Our Strength | $2,070,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association | $2,000,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc | $1,800,000 | 5 | 2% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $1,640,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($20M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The E&SS Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fjc · The Lauren and Lee Fixel Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Samueli Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About The E&SS Foundation Inc
- How much does The E&SS Foundation Inc give?
- The E&SS Foundation Inc reported 36 grants totaling $26,138,221 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does The E&SS Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (59%), Philanthropy (16%), Religion (6%).
- Who are The E&SS Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Palm Beach Day Academy Inc ($18M), Trinity Episcopal School ($5.0M), Tiger Foundation ($3.3M).
- Does The E&SS Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The E&SS Foundation Inc 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 The E&SS Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The E&SS Foundation Inc based?
- The E&SS Foundation Inc is based in GA.
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