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The Eames Institute

THE EAMES INSTITUTE is a 501(c)(3) public charity with a mission of cultivating curiosity to solve problems at any scale. Our aim is to equip everyone with the living lessons of charles and ray eames so that they can use design to make positive changes in their own world. Preservation, archiving, cataloging, and documenting the design…

$294k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Itemized grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
80%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$284k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$130,400
Organizations funded a year
8 to 15
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$136M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 80% of the organizations The Eames Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$278k29%
FY202315$271k80%
FY20228$140kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$200kEnvironment$195kYouth Development$155kEducation$46kCommunity Improvement$30kAnimals$30kFood & Nutrition$25kHealth$18kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Girls Garage$155,400211%
Sonoma Mountain Institute$155,00035%
United States Artists Inc$130,00030%
My Giant Squid Friend LLC$30,0001n/a
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center$20,00010%
Reuse Alliance Inc$20,000221%
Santa Fe Art Institute Inc$20,00022%
The Rebuild Foundation Nfp$20,00020%
Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri$15,00010%
Creative Reaction Lab$10,00011%
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All grantees of The Eames Institute by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Girls Garage$155,400211%
Sonoma Mountain Institute$155,00035%
United States Artists Inc$130,00030%
My Giant Squid Friend LLC$30,0001n/a
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center$20,00010%
Reuse Alliance Inc$20,000221%
Santa Fe Art Institute Inc$20,00022%
The Rebuild Foundation Nfp$20,00020%
Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri$15,00010%
Creative Reaction Lab$10,00011%
Richmond Art Center$10,00011%
Botanical Bus$10,00012%
Urban Tilth$10,00010%
Spaulding High School Foundation Ltd$10,0001n/a
Ideoorg$10,00010%
Intersection for the Arts$10,00010%
Petaluma Blacks for Community Development$10,00017%
Design Futures Forum Inc$10,000110%
Inneract Project Inc$10,00012%
The Audre Lorde Project Inc$7,80011%
Petaluma People Services Center$6,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Eames Institute supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGirls Garage: $155,400 over 2y, 11% of budgetSonoma Mountain Institute: $155,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc: $130,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOccidental Arts and Ecology Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetReuse Alliance Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetSanta Fe Art Institute Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetThe Rebuild Foundation Nfp: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCreative Reaction Lab: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRichmond Art Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBotanical Bus: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUrban Tilth: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIdeoorg: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIntersection for the Arts: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPetaluma Blacks for Community Development: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetDesign Futures Forum Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetInneract Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Audre Lorde Project Inc: $7,800 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPetaluma People Services Center: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

The Yelp FoundationCA12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Yelp Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Eames Institute?

Find your warmest path to The Eames Institute through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Eames Institute

How much does The Eames Institute give?
The Eames Institute reported 8 itemized grants totaling $283,900, out of $293,900 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does The Eames Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Environment (28%), Youth Development (22%).
Who are The Eames Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Girls Garage ($155k), Sonoma Mountain Institute ($155k), United States Artists Inc ($130k).
Does The Eames Institute fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Eames Institute?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Yelp Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
Where is The Eames Institute based?
The Eames Institute is based in CA.

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 23 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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