· Private foundation
The Ephraim 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $115,000 |
| WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF | $100,000 |
| COLLINGS FOUNDATION INC | $35,000 |
| MISSION EL FARO | $10,000 |
| THE PEOPLE'S MUSIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CRUSHERS CLUB | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +97% since the first grant, against +75% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- IIIllinois Institute of Technology5× · 2018–2024 · $505k · revenue +28%
WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP7× · 2017–2024 · $469k · revenue +81%- TPThe People's Music School7× · 2017–2024 · $319k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- MOMISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INCone grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue -6%
- HSHabilitative Systems Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +75%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Lespri Ministries seeks to see the country of Haiti transformed through: valuing educating equipping and empowering Haitis orphans children and youth with a special emphasis on leadership training and practical preparatory skills for life.…
To provide support and services to poor, rural villages in asia and africa. the activities are dedicated and focused on improving the current and future standards of living for the children in these areas. specific focus includes…
To help and support the youth of ecuador.
By partnering with vulnerable communities in ethiopia, we strive to equip vulnerable people to
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
Haven of hope international (hohi) is at the forefront of orphan care innovation with its mission to raise the standard of care for orphans left behind and abandoned by traditional adoption systems. its mission is simple and specific:…
The mission of ORPHANetwork is to partner with the the local church to break cycles of poverty amongst highly vulnerable children.
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.
To assist in the development of an affordable and equitable bicycle infrastructure and support in developing nations where the bicycle can make an improvement in the general quality of life; To provide financing and mentoring to start-up…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission of Hope Inc Mission of Hope Haiti Inc and the most unlike its peers is Illinois Institute of Technology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 12 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 Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds The People's Music School ↗
- Who funds MISSION EL FARO INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds Habilitative Systems Inc ↗
- Who funds RESTORING THE PATH ↗
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 Ephraim Family Foundation 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.