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The Eckstein Family Foundation at a glance

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The Eckstein Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$120k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$243kReligion$138kCivil Rights$69kHealth$40kArts & Culture$11kRecreation & Sports$10kHuman Services$8kSocial Science$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POMONA COLLEGE$30,000
ASU FOUNDATION$30,000
HILLEL AT CLAREMONT COLLEGES$15,000
ARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST$10,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$10,000
LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW$7,000
XICO$5,500
HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY$5,000
ARIZONA CIVIL LIBERTIES FOUNDATION$5,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE$2,500
02The need
03

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 (FY21–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $5k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $5k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $3k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $3k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$470k · 12 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
7

Total granted

$470k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-10%

Still filing today

67%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • POMONA COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +87%
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +51%
  • AC
    ARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
    2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +30%
  • CC
    Camp Colley Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -78%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $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.

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.

1
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Aclu Foundation of Arizona

The mission of the aclu foundation of arizona is to defend and preserve, through litigation and public education, individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the constitution and the laws of the united states and arizona.

Civil Rights
3
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
4
Jewish Family & Children's Service of Southern Arizona Inc

Jewish family & children's services of southern arizona helps all people meet their full potential by providing expert community and behavioral health services.

Human Services
5
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

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6
American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona

The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…

—
7
The Dons of Arizona
Education
8
Arizona Theatre Company

ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.

Arts & Culture
9
Arizona Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.

Health
10
Nishmat Adin

Nishmat adin lays the foundation for students to become lifelong learners and scholars steeped in their jewish roots and identities, confident in their talents, adept at navigating the world around them, emboldened to turn challenge into…

Education
11
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
12
Phoenix Jewish Community Kivel Nursing Home

Operation of assisted living facilities

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley; the most unlike its peers is Pomona College. 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POMONA COLLEGE: $150,000 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGEARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $90,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERIC…+1 more: $2,609 · EducationASU HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT CENTER: $64,500 · OtherASU HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT CENTERTEMPLE CHAI: $48,300 · OtherTEMPLE CHAIHILLEL AT CLAREMONT COLLEGES: $25,000 · OtherHILLEL AT CLAREMONT COLLEGESLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $21,000 · OtherLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under L…JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL: $15,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCILARIZONA CIVIL LIBERTIES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherCamp Colley Foundation: $10,000 · Other+3 more: $7,512 · OtherPhoenix Children's Hospital: $30,000 · HealthARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $17,500 · Civil RightsHospice of the Valley: $10,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesXico Inc: $11,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA JUSTICE PROJECT: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$242,609Other$201,312Health$30,000Civil Rights$17,500Human Services$17,500Arts & Culture$11,000Crime & Legal$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $17,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL: $15,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetXico Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Colley Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH TUITION ORGANIZATION: $2,609 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA JUSTICE PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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
    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.

    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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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