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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
10
States reached
$7.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

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

7
’17
7
’18
9
’19
18
’20
33
’21
36
’22
16
’23
16
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$74MPhilanthropy$20MReligion$7.8MHealth$4.7MHuman Services$3.2MInternational$2.8MFood & Nutrition$2.1MEnvironment$1.1MOther$0
02FY2021 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k3 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+17 grants · $24M
$247,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$93M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$7,200,000
TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL CORPORATION$2,333,333
BEAVERTON HIGH SCHOOL SUCCESS FUND$2,000,000
PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC$2,000,000
SHARE OUR STRENGTH$1,800,000
MORASHA OLAMI INC$1,800,000
UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$1,180,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$1,025,000
AIRBNB ORG INC$1,000,000
ISRAEL RENAISSANCE FUND INC$1,000,000
TIGER FOUNDATION$600,000
BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE FOUNDATION$600,000
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC$427,000
B'NAI B'RITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION$360,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$360,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $502k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC: $180k → 13%RELIEF RESOURCES INC: $180k → 20%RELIEF RESOURCES INC: $60k → 20%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $80k → 17%YOUNG ADULT INSTITUTE INC: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
TN
SC
DC
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$61M · 35 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2021, 10 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
32

Total granted

$61M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
0%

Still filing today

83%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $706k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyEducationHealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • PB
    PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $18M · revenue +56%
  • TE
    TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $5.0M · revenue +11%
  • TF
    TIGER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2022 · $3.3M · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • YM
    YOUNG MENS AND YOUNG WOMENS HEBREW ASSOC - 92 STREET Y
    one grant, 2019 · $5.2M
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2.0M · revenue +31%
  • BH
    BEAVERTON HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
2
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
5
Northwell Health Foundation

Northwell health foundation inc. is dedicated toward helping donors, patients, and leaders link their vision and philanthropic support toward helping the underserved and uninsured, advancing the latest frontiers in medical technology and…

Health
6
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
7
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
8
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
9
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
10
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
12
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

The feinstein institute for medical research ("the institute") is the research branch of northwell health ("northwell"). through its affiliation with northwell, the institute's mission is to bridge the gap between biomedical research and…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tiger Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsSchool District FoundationsJewish Community Organizati…Environmental Conservation …Christian Missionary Organi…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Cancer Support ServicesYouth Development CentersYouth Sports ProgramsUnited Way AffiliatesFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Arts CentersHealth Access Advocacy and …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%19%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%62%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/82
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,483

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 102 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/77
Grantees still filing
48/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $31,300,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC — $18,016,930 · EducationPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INCTRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $4,999,999 · EducationTRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOLBEAVERTON HIGH SCHOOL SUCCESS FUND — $2,800,000 · EducationCornell University — $2,600,000 · Education+6 more — $3,128,500 · EducationTRINITY SCHOOL — $10,600,000 · OtherTRINITY SCHOOLYOUNG MENS AND YOUNG WOMENS HEBREW ASSOC - 92 STREET Y — $5,200,000 · OtherYOUNG MENS AND YOUNG WOMENS …TIGER FOUNDATION — $3,318,000 · OtherTIGER FOUNDATIONSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $2,070,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTH+48 more — $10,547,166 · Other+48 moreTIGER GLOBAL IMPACT VENTURES INC — $16,328,729 · PhilanthropyTIGER GLOBAL IMPACT …Jewish Federation of Greater Portland — $1,714,888 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $1,640,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL…Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $1,280,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Cent…+13 more — $1,568,800 · Philanthropy+13 moreMORASHA OLAMI INC — $2,160,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $180,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · International+4 more — $113,720 · InternationalTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $2,000,000 · Religion+1 more — $36,000 · ReligionThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc — $1,800,000 · HealthIra Sohn Conference Foundation Inc — $100,000 · HealthBOROUGH PARK VOLUNTEER OF HATZOLAH — $80,000 · Health+7 more — $37,010 · HealthTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $1,075,000 · Environment+2 more — $54,000 · Environment
Education$62,845,429Other$31,735,166Philanthropy$22,532,417International$2,603,720Religion$2,036,000Health$2,017,010Environment$1,129,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $31,300,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC — $18,016,930 over 4y, 17% of budgetTIGER GLOBAL IMPACT VENTURES INC — $16,328,729 over 2y, 49% of budgetTRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $4,999,999 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTIGER FOUNDATION — $3,318,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetCornell University — $2,600,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMORASHA OLAMI INC — $2,160,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $2,070,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $2,000,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc — $1,800,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Portland — $1,714,888 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $1,640,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $1,280,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetUBUNTU PATHWAYS INC — $1,150,000 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $1,075,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetIsrael Renaissance Fund Inc — $1,000,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetAIRBNBORG INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetB'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION — $900,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH PRIZE FOUNDATION — $780,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHARLEM RBI INC — $625,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc — $333,333 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $333,333 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE VOLUNTEERS HATZALAH — $300,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $249,440 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation — $240,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRELIEF RESOURCES INC — $240,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $230,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $180,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS — $180,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $180,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGrenadines Partnership Fund — $180,000 over 1y, 85% of budgetAVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC — $180,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOACHARTORG — $139,800 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetIra Sohn Conference Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $80,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOROUGH PARK VOLUNTEER OF HATZOLAH — $80,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES — $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mustique Charitable Foundation — $68,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc — $54,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHASDEI YISROEL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $49,780 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $46,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…The Goldman Sachs Cha…FjcThe Lauren and Lee Fi…Jewish Federation of …Associated Jewish Cha…Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…Bny Mellon Charitable…Samueli FoundationNational Philanthropi…
Jewish Communal FundNY27.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The E&SS Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • B'nai Brith Men's Camp Association — 7% of income from government
  • Palm Beach Day Academy Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 102 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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 camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines