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The Eacho Family 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.

$278k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$102k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Youth Development$1.1MEducation$258kEnvironment$229kHealth$128kPublic Benefit$84kArts & Culture$57kSocial Science$50kHousing & Shelter$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $102k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LANDON SCHOOL ANNUAL GIVING FUND$101,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WASHINGTON$20,000
AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION$19,460
FRIENDS OF ACADIA$18,690
ISLAND HOUSING TRUST$15,000
DEMOCRACY PROJECT II$10,000
GRACE REPRODUCTIVE FUND$10,000
SALZBURG GLOBAL SEMINAR$8,980
INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ELECTORAL SYSTEM$7,500
LAND AND GARDEN PRESERVE$6,000
NEXT GENERATION CHOICES FOUNDATION$6,000
MOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOCIATION$5,250
FOREST TRENDS$5,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$5,000
LIFEFLIGHT FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM: $5k → 8%PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM: $500 → 8%PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM: $500 → 8%PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM: $500 → 8%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

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NH
MT
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 42 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
24

Total granted

$1.9M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

74%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther

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

  • LS
    LANDON SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +21%
  • FO
    Friends of Acadia
    7× · 2019–2025 · $96k · revenue +94%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $86k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • AC
    ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +84%
  • DC
    Diplomacy Center Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -85%
  • VS
    VIENNA SECESSION AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue -47% · 34% of their budget

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.

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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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3
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
6
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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7
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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10
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
11
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Campaign Legal Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vienna Secession American Foundation Inc. 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-8 SchoolsYouth Development CentersGovernment Accountability R…Pregnancy Support ServicesLand Conservation Organizat…Community Arts OrganizationsCommunity Health CentersFood Pantries & AssistancePublic Library SupportClassical Music EnsemblesEducation Equity LeadershipCancer Support OrganizationsEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr16%6%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr16%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr16%2%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr16%70%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
14%
5,903/41,792

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

54 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. 54 of the 76 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
30/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LANDON SCHOOL — $1,001,500 · EducationLANDON SCHOOLDUKE UNIVERSITY — $86,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYNEXT GENERATION CHOICES FOUNDATION — $63,000 · EducationPartnership for Responsible Growth Inc — $50,000 · Education+7 more — $21,250 · EducationTHE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC — $113,920 · OtherTHE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FO…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE — $80,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF …GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherGREATER WASHINGTON COMMU…COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC — $17,000 · OtherFOREST TRENDS — $15,000 · OtherForeign Policy For America Foundation — $18,500 · Other+40 more — $155,425 · Other+40 moreFriends of Acadia — $96,390 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $42,500 · EnvironmentSEAL HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC — $11,000 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ELECTORAL SYSTEMS — $32,500 · InternationalATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $25,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS — $3,000 · International+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalSALZBURG GLOBAL SEMINAR INC — $49,980 · Social ScienceIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST — $5,000 · Social ScienceDiplomacy Center Foundation — $20,000 · Arts & CultureWADSWORTH-SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Arts & CultureROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC — $6,100 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of Art — $1,350 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $1,500 · Arts & CultureISLAND HOUSING TRUST — $38,500 · Housing & Shelter
Education$1,221,750Other$424,845Environment$150,890International$61,500Social Science$54,980Arts & Culture$39,450Housing & Shelter$38,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLANDON SCHOOL — $1,001,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC — $113,920 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetFriends of Acadia — $96,390 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $86,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE — $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT GENERATION CHOICES FOUNDATION — $63,000 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetPartnership for Responsible Growth Inc — $50,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetSALZBURG GLOBAL SEMINAR INC — $49,980 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $42,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST — $38,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ELECTORAL SYSTEMS — $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDiplomacy Center Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetForeign Policy For America Foundation — $18,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC — $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $14,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve — $11,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSEAL HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC — $11,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation — $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT DESERT 365 — $10,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetDEMOCRACY PROJECT II — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGRACE REPRODUCTIVE FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWADSWORTH-SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM INC — $6,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetVIENNA SECESSION AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC — $6,300 over 1y, 34% of budgetROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC — $6,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC — $5,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARET SCHOOL INC — $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNORWOOD SCHOOL INC — $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC — $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS — $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF MITCHELL PARK INC — $1,100 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetArlington Food Assistance Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVerified Voting Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES — $800 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.

Greater Washington Co…The Mitchell P Rales …Colket Family Foundat…Florence V Burden Fou…Janet Stone Jones Fou…E Newbold & Margaret …The Robert P and Arle…Gerrish H Milliken Fo…Cornelia Cogswell Ros…The Widgeon Point Cha…Maine Community Found…The Howard Johnson Fo…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC22× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Mitchell P Rales Family Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · Florence V Burden Foundation · Janet Stone Jones Foundation · E Newbold & Margaret Dupont Smith F Foundation (Dba Thornedge Fdn) · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Howard Johnson 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 The Eacho 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Parent Encouragement Program Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 76 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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