· Private foundation
The Erkiletian Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $144k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $159k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $159,000 |
| SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY | $25,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $20,000 |
| FUTURE HARVEST | $20,000 |
| BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $12,500 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICARES | $10,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $10,000 |
| UNITED HELP UKRAINE | $5,000 |
| AFSP | $5,000 |
| SPIRIT OF CHRIST BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of The Erkiletian Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 46% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 49%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC8× · 2017–2025 · $149k · revenue ×15
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +53%- ACAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM7× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +449%
Funded once
- HFHOUSING FOR ALL INCORPORATEDone grant, 2020 · $50k
- LALoudoun Abused Woman's Shelterone grant, 2021 · $26k
- FTFEEDING TEXASone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +11%
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.
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.
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To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
How this is measured
51 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. 51 of the 89 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
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- Who funds BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEEDING TEXAS ↗
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- Who funds FUTURE HARVEST INC ↗
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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.
Open a dossier: Act for Alexandria · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Erkiletian Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Erkiletian Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Baltimore Tree Trust Inc: 100% of income from government
- Future Harvest Inc: 41% of income from government
- St Michaels Community Center Inc: 20% of income from government
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: 16% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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