· Private foundation
The Ekkebus Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KELLY'S KIDS INC | $100,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIS CHURCH PONTE VEDRA | $100,000 |
| THE FLAME CHRISTIAN CO-OP | $55,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH LAGRANGE | $50,000 |
| WEST GEORGIA AUBURN CLUB | $25,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $25,000 |
| TRINITY RESCUE INC | $20,000 |
| BRIDGES OF HOPE | $20,000 |
| THE JOSEPH SAMS SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| NEW YORK YANKEES FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SAMARATAN'S PURSE | $20,000 |
| FREE METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| KUKUI CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN AND JEWS | $10,000 |
| LAFAYETTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LAGRANGE | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of The Ekkebus Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 9 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $279k 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
- TBTHE BOLLES SCHOOL2× · 2021–2022 · $300k · revenue +38%
- TRTrinity Rescue Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $156k · revenue +71% · 29% of their budget
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- LALAGRANGE ACADEMY INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -13%
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF LAGRANGEone grant, 2021 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
Lubbock christian university is a christ-centered, academic community of learners, transforming the hearts, minds, and hands of students for lives of purpose and service.
The organization seeks to provide the highest quality of care in ministry to the diverse needs of louisiana's children and families by offering a variety of holistic services which promote personal growth and wholesome family life. the…
Loma linda university, a seventh-day adventist christian health sciences institution, seeks to further the healing and teaching ministry of jesus christ "to make man whole" by: - educating ethical and proficient christian health…
Lighthouse christian school exists to glorify god by providing quality, christ-centered education that will nurture students to become spiritually minded, academically versed, socially balanced, and equipped to make a positive impact in…
The mission of the school is to provide the students of acs with quality, god-centered education; training children in the way they should go, equipping students to glorify god by being a witness for jesus christ to the world through a…
A coeducational episcopal day school, preschool through eighth grade, for students of all faiths.
Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…
Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
The mission of the academy is to study and teach the truths of the natural and spiritual worlds in the light of the old testament, the new testament, and the writings of emanuel swedenborg. this is done at the academy of the new church…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lafayette Christian School Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 75 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 THE BOLLES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Trinity Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW STORY INC ↗
- Who funds KELLYS KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ALL THINGS NEW INC ↗
- Who funds WEST GEORGIA AUBURN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds KUKUI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LaGrange College ↗
- Who funds THE JOSEPH SAMS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LAGRANGE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Christ in India Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK YANKEES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Hart Family Foundation Inc · The Charter Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Trotter Foundation Inc · George S & Edna L Cobb Foundation CO Synovus Trust Company · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation
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 Ekkebus Family Foundation Inc 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.
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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