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The Educational Charitable Trust Aka the Themian Charitable Center
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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of THE EDUCATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST AKA THE THEMIAN CHARITABLE CENTER’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $20,000 |
| INNOCENCE PROJECT | $15,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA | $15,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT | $15,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $15,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| FOOD WATER WATCH | $5,000 |
| BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JAY STREET EDUCATION FUND | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $5,000 |
| EVERYDAY ZEN | $5,000 |
| NO KID HUNGRY | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER | $4,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
41 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $900 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TITHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +35%
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +5%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $65k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- HFHIMMELSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue 0%
- HFHIMMELSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $65k
THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -46%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
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The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Himmelstein Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HIMMELSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERYDAY ZEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE NOW ACTION ↗
- Who funds BRING CHANGE 2 MIND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds JACOB BURNS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Educational Charitable Trust Aka the Themian Charitable Center funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Save Ellis Island Inc — 10% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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