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The Erct Foundation Inc

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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.8MSocial Science$1.1MInternational$869kReligion$107kHealth$50kPhilanthropy$35kArts & Culture$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$400,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$400,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTE$400,000
BROOKINGS INSITUTION$333,509
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE LIFE SCIENCE CARE PHILA: $27k → 10%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY FALL 2021: $41k → 22%STANDFORD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $30k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $15k → 14%TURKISH AMERICAN ART SOCIETY: $20k → 13%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $78k → 14%NORTHERN NJ MUSLIM PHYSICIAN: $24k → 7%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $13k → 8%SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $44k → 16%INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE: $100k → 8%FONS VITAE OF KENTUCKY INC: $57k → 15%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 22%AMERICAN UNIVERSTIY: $44k → 14%MELIS EYLUL DOGRUKOL: $116k → 9%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $32k → 8%SETON HALL: $24k → 16%FONS VITAE OF KENTUCKY INC: $30k → 15%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY FALL 2021: $29k → 22%AMERICAAN UNIVERSITY: $30k → 14%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $14k → 8%FONS VITAE OF KENTUCKY INC: $20k → 15%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $28k → 22%BROOKINGS INSITUTION: $334k → 14%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 22%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $93k → 17%BROOKINGS INSITUTION: $200k → 14%DIRECT DONATION: $400k → 16%VICTORY FUND: $50k → 22%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $86k → 17%BROOKINGS INSITUTION: $200k → 14%DIRECT DONATION: $12k → 16%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $55k → 17%BROOKINGS INSITUTION: $200k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $29k → 17%BROOKING INSTITUTION: $104k → 14%MET: $50k → 17%BROOKINGS INSITUTION: $100k → 14%COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS: $25k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $29k → 17%NEW YOUR UNIVERSTIY: $27k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTE: $400k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTE: $200k → 17%COLUMBIA MAILMAN PUBLICH HEALTH DON: $43k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTE: $125k → 17%COLUMBIA MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC: $25k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTE: $100k → 17%TURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS: $32k → 17%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

WA
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
KY
VA
AZ
DC
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 13 repeat orgs$580k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
25

Total granted

$3.4M
$580k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+53%

Still filing today

62%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalSocial ScienceReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TB
    THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +19%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $825k · revenue +38%
  • NY
    New York University
    6× · 2018–2023 · $299k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $116k
  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • M
    MET
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
3
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
4
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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6
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
7
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

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8
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
9
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
10
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
11
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
12
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $423,321 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY: $140,129 · OtherCONCORDIA UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $115,764 · OtherIndividual grant recipientINTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE: $100,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL COLLEGETEMPLE UNIVERSITY FALL 2021: $69,360 · OtherSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $67,703 · OtherRUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $59,595 · OtherMET: $50,000 · OtherVICTORY FUND: $50,000 · Other+20 more: $286,178 · Other+20 moreTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $1,137,507 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTIONInternational Rescue Committee INC: $825,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Com…COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $43,960 · InternationalTURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC: $32,000 · InternationalNew York University: $299,453 · EducationNew York Univers…AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $152,587 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERS…Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $73,947 · EducationTemple Universit…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRU…+2 more: $30,000 · EducationFONS VITAE OF KENTUCKY INC: $106,639 · ReligionUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$1,362,050Social Science$1,137,507International$900,960Education$605,987Religion$106,639Philanthropy$2,500

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 budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $1,137,507 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $825,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $299,453 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $152,587 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFONS VITAE OF KENTUCKY INC: $106,639 over 3y, 16% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $73,947 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $67,703 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $43,960 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC: $32,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,500 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 THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FONS VITAE OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds TURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to The Erct Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Erct Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 41 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.

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