· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $301k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $100,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $40,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $40,000 |
| THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH | $40,000 |
| LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS | $25,000 |
| DANA TAI SOON BURGESS & COMPANY | $20,300 |
| THE CARTER CENTER | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $17,500 |
| STUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE | $16,480 |
| CHERRY CHILDREN'S MUSIC OUTREACH | $12,000 |
| SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT (SOME) | $10,000 |
| SASHA BRUCE YOUTH WORK INC | $10,000 |
| CIVICS CENTER | $10,000 |
| RISA FUND OF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Save The Children Federation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +21%
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $351k · revenue +120%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $351k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- HGHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +223%
WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +27%- NKNO KID HUNGRY SHARE OUT STRENGTHone grant, 2020 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
How this is measured
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MARET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds JOY OF MOTION DANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT INC ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Eccles Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eccles Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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