How much does The Echo Foundation give?

The Echo Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $18,790 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 27 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.

What does The Echo Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (48%), Health (8%), Philanthropy (6%).

Who are The Echo Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2026: Fashion Institute of Technology Foundation ($28k), Rhode Island School of Design ($27k), Father's Daymother's Day Council Inc ($14k).

Does The Echo Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Echo 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 Echo Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is The Echo Foundation based?

The Echo Foundation is based in NY.

The Echo Foundation

The Echo Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

The Echo Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$19k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$8k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$125kHealth$22kPhilanthropy$16kHuman Services$16kCivil Rights$15kReligion$8kHousing & Shelter$7kArts & Culture$5kOther$0

02FY2026 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,500

Median grant

States reached

$19k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION	$7,500
PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL OF DESIGN	$3,500
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN	$3,500
FATHER'S DAYMOTHER'S DAY COUNCIL	$2,890
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE	$1,000
WITHERSPOON-JACKSON HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL SOCIETY	$400

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–26, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$198k · 23 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2026, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$198k

$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%

+28%

Still filing today

52%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

FI
FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION
7× · 2019–2026 · $28k · revenue +34%
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
9× · 2018–2026 · $27k · revenue +11%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
2× · 2019–2020 · $13k · revenue +39%

Funded once

FD
FATHER'S DAY COUNCIL
one grant, 2024 · $8k
TN
THE NEW SCHOOL OF DESIGN(PARSONS)
one grant, 2020 · $7k
DELIVERING GOOD INC
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -14%

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.

04Its field

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.

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education

Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

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

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education

Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education

University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University; the most unlike its peers is The Sephardic Food Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 38 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/22

Grantees still filing

15/22

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$139,830Education$50,500Human Services$18,530Civil Rights$13,350Arts & Culture$5,000Health$3,750Philanthropy$1,000

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.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Echo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Echo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Echo Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Echo 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.

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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 endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home