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The Eirenikos Foundation at a glance

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The Eirenikos Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$996k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$394k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% 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
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+2 grants · $700k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$393,552
HELEN KELLER FOUNDATION$306,448
CIVIC HEALTH PROJECT$200,000
NC JUSTICE CENTER$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH CENTRAL NC$15,000
NOW SERVING$15,000
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$5,000
SALVATION ARMY$5,000
BOOK HARVEST$5,000
AMERICAN OVERSIGHT$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
AREA CONGREGATIONS IN MINISTRY$3,000
AREA CHRISTIANS TOGETHER IN SERVICE$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $457k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOPE MADE REAL: $20k → 12%AL OTRO LADO: $5k → 14%HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN: $2k → 24%HOPE MADE REAL: $20k → 12%HOPE MADE REAL: $5k → 12%HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN: $1k → 8%HOPE MADE REAL: $5k → 12%AREA CONGREGATION IN MINISTRY: $12k → 11%NC Justice Center: $200k → 8%NC Justice Center: $80k → 8%NC JUSTICE CENTER: $40k → 8%NC JUSTICE CENTER: $20k → 8%NC JUSTICE CENTER: $15k → 8%NC JUSTICE CENTER: $10k → 8%AREA CONGREGATIONS IN MINISTRY: $3k → 11%AREA CONGREGATIONS IN MINISTRY: $3k → 11%NC JUSTICE CENTER: $10k → 8%AREA CONGREGATIONS IN MINISTRY: $3k → 11%AREA CONGRETATION IN MINISTRY: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 27 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
34

Total granted

$2.6M
$625k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+23%

Still filing today

41%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $426k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalEducationHealthFood & NutritionCivil 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF N CENT NC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $590k · revenue +14%
  • NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $385k · revenue +83%
  • HM
    HOPE MADE REAL INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • BF
    Bread For The World Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +18%
  • AT
    Alliance to End Hunger
    one grant, 2022 · $160k · revenue -65%
  • IMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRSTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +258%
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
United States Association for Unhcr

USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.

International
2
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc

The american civil liberties union foundation of northern california (aclu nc foundation) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc foundation, a california…

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3
Disability Rights North Carolina

Disability rights north carolina is a legal advocacy organization that advances and defends the rights of people with all types of disabilities, of all ages, throughout north carolina.

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4
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
5
American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation Inc

The aclu of north carolina dares to create a more perfect union - beyond one person, party, or side. our mission is to realize this promise of the united states and north carolina constitutions for all and expand the reach of their…

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6
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

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7
Wireless Research Center of North Carolina

The Wireless Research Center is an independent, private nonprofit research center dedicated to applied research and engineering. Located in North Carolina's Research Triangle region, the WRC helps clients from around the world develop…

Science & Tech
8
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
9
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
10
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
11
Nuru International

Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…

International
12
World Coffee Research

World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Hungry Inc; the most unlike its peers is Eleanor Crook Foundation. 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

32 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. 32 of the 69 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
20/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HELEN KELLER FOUNDATION: $506,448 · OtherHELEN KELLER FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $393,552 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCIVIC HEALTH PROJECT: $300,000 · OtherCIVIC HEALTH PROJECTBread For The World Inc: $200,000 · OtherBread For The World IncSALVATION ARMY: $88,000 · OtherWarrior Scholarship Project: $87,000 · OtherLEGAL AID OF NC: $85,000 · Other+46 more: $336,500 · Other+46 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF N CENT NC: $590,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLU…NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $385,000 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLINA…HOPE MADE REAL INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesHOPE MADE REAL…AREA CONGREGATIONS IN MINISTRY: $23,500 · Human Services+3 more: $8,500 · Human ServicesELEANOR CROOK FOUNDATION: $258,000 · PhilanthropyAlliance to End Hunger: $160,000 · Food & NutritionNOW SERVING INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $20,000 · InternationalGlobal Response Management Inc: $8,240 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $8,200 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST: $75,000 · Social Science
Other$1,996,500Youth Development$590,000Human Services$467,000Philanthropy$258,000Food & Nutrition$175,000International$77,440Social Science$75,000

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 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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $35,000 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
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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF N CENT NC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ELEANOR CROOK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Bread For The World Inc ↗
  • Who funds Alliance to End Hunger ↗
  • Who funds IMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST ↗
  • Who funds HOPE MADE REAL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AREA CONGREGATIONS IN MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds LATIN AMERICA WORKING GROUP ↗
  • Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NOW SERVING INC ↗
  • Who funds IMMUNOTHERAPY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds Global Response Management Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
  • Who funds AL OTRO LADO ↗
  • Who funds BOOK HARVEST ↗

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 Fo…North Carolina Commun…Aj Fletcher FoundationThe Winston-Salem Fou…Duke Energy FoundationJohn William Pope Fou…New Venture FundFoundation for the Ca…United Way of the Gre…Z Smith Reynolds Foun…Hopewell FundThe Community Foundat…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Children's Dream Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 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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