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The Eccles 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.

$455k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 25
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
13
Total assets, FY2025
$8.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Eccles Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionInternationalEducationArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving26$444k12%
FY202421$333k5%
FY202325$365k4%
FY202224$345k4%
FY202123$338k4%
FY202023$320k17%
FY201920$286k0%
FY201822$280k5%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$1.2MHealth$402kEducation$235kEnvironment$172kCivil Rights$156kYouth Development$150kRecreation & Sports$149kArts & Culture$139kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($398k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Eccles Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $390,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $351,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $351,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $310,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Wisconsin Foundation: $180,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carter Center Inc: $152,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetStudents Run Philly Style: $149,900 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetNorthwestern University: $148,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $147,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSome Inc: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSasha Bruce Youthwork Inc: $55,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDoor County Land Trust Inc: $45,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $42,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMaret School Inc: $41,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $38,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $27,505 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetShare Our Strength: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Partners: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHorizons Greater Washington Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJoy of Motion Dance Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLift Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 25.

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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.

American Endowment FoundationOH11.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Eccles Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Eccles Family Foundation 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 Eccles Family Foundation

How much does The Eccles Family Foundation give?
The Eccles Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $454,780 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Eccles Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (40%), Health (13%), Education (8%).
Who are The Eccles Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Save The Children Federation Inc ($390k), Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation ($351k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($351k).
Does The Eccles Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Eccles Family Foundation 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 Eccles Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is The Eccles Family Foundation based?
The Eccles Family Foundation is based in MD.

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 36 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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