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The Eirenikos Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$996k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$393,552
Organizations funded a year
15 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$10M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations The Eirenikos Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $312k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23
InternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionSocial ScienceCivil RightsOther
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
FY2024still arriving19$996k37%
FY202315$483k40%
FY202219$474k37%
FY202119$524k42%
FY202023$453k52%
FY201825$326k52%
FY201715$349kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.4MHealth$883kYouth Development$597kHuman Services$500kFood & Nutrition$375kEducation$132kInternational$127kCrime & Legal$114kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys and Girls Clubs of N Cent Nc$590,000711%
North Carolina Justice Center$385,00074%
Eleanor Crook Foundation$258,00022%
Bread For The World Inc$200,00013%
Alliance to End Hunger$160,00012%
Imagine North Carolina First$75,00012%
Hope Made Real Inc$50,00049%
United Nations Foundation Inc$40,00010%
St Stephens Episcopal Church$30,0003n/a
Area Congregations in Ministry$23,50050%
Show all 34 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of N Cent Nc: $590,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetNorth Carolina Justice Center: $385,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetEleanor Crook Foundation: $258,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBread For The World Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAlliance to End Hunger: $160,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetImagine North Carolina First: $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHope Made Real Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetUnited Nations Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArea Congregations in Ministry: $23,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLatin America Working Group: $20,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetUnc Health Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNow Serving Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetImmunotherapy Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGlobal Response Management Inc: $8,240 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFood for the Hungry Inc: $8,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAl Otro Lado: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBook Harvest: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKenyon College: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Oversight Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Family Violence Prevention Center Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hope Center at Pullen Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Carolinians for Redistricting Reform: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConcern Worldwide (Us) Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Tribune Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Dream Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc: $500 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 29.

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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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC24.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · New Venture Fund · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Hopewell Fund · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc

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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About The Eirenikos Foundation

How much does The Eirenikos Foundation give?
The Eirenikos Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $996,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Eirenikos Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), Health (18%), Youth Development (12%).
Who are The Eirenikos Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Boys and Girls Clubs of N Cent Nc ($590k), North Carolina Justice Center ($385k), Eleanor Crook Foundation ($258k).
Does The Eirenikos Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Eirenikos Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Eirenikos Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation, Aj Fletcher Foundation.
Where is The Eirenikos Foundation based?
The Eirenikos Foundation is based in NC.

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 69 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.1M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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