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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.

$348k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$159k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$818kEnvironment$264kArts & Culture$257kPublic Safety & Disaster$193kHealth$129kFood & Nutrition$121kInternational$97kHuman Services$89kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

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
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–25, $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.

area typical 10%NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMAN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 18%Nationalities Service Center: $4k → 22%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $12k → 7%HOMESTRETCH: $4k → 4%Boulder Crest Foundation: $5k → 7%THE BRIGAID ALLIANCE: $10k → 17%American Red Cross: $3k → 14%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
MT
IL
MI
NY
NV
IA
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
NM
TN
DC
AL
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.
04

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%.

The Erkiletian Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 31 repeat orgs$444k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
49

Total granted

$1.8M
$378k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+12%

Still filing today

71%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthAnimalsInternationalOther
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

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $149k · revenue ×15
  • CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +53%
  • AC
    AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM
    7× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +449%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOUSING FOR ALL INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • LA
    Loudoun Abused Woman's Shelter
    one grant, 2021 · $26k
  • FT
    FEEDING TEXAS
    one 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.

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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
American Forests

Protection and expansion of threatened urban and wildland forest ecosystems. See Part III

Environment
5
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
8
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
9
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
10
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
11
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
12
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Wild Love Preserve. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
30/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $423,840 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $40,334 · Other+60 more: $592,371 · Other+60 moreEmerging Scholars Program Inc: $349,100 · EducationEmerging Scholars…+1 more: $6,000 · EducationTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $225,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SHAKESPE…+5 more: $15,640 · Arts & Culture+5 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $149,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTR…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $37,665 · InternationalAMERICARES …OPERATION SMILE INC: $36,500 · InternationalOPERATION S…United States Association for UNHCR: $12,000 · InternationalCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $131,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $24,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RE…SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $19,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE R…Ducks Unlimited Inc: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Environment+2 more: $7,600 · EnvironmentUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $32,500 · Human ServicesBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $32,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $18,165 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $4,100 · Human ServicesHomestretch Inc: $3,500 · Human Services+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING FOR ALL INCORPORATED: $50,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,056,545Education$355,100Arts & Culture$240,640International$235,165Environment$199,100Human Services$103,265Housing & Shelter$50,000

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 budgetEmerging Scholars Program Inc: $349,100 over 5y, 26% of budgetTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $225,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $149,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $131,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $40,334 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $37,665 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $36,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $32,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $22,933 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $21,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $19,460 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom Within Project: $18,208 over 4y, 10% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $18,165 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MICHAELS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetJACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE: $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Virginia: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANARY FUND DBA CANARY FOUNDATION: $10,920 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWayward Ranch Animal Sanctuary Inc: $6,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAnimal Welfare League of Alexandria: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUPCYCLE CREATIVE REUSE CENTER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMAYA EXPLORATION CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARCADIA FOOD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $4,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE HOUSE FARM FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHomestretch Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILD LOVE PRESERVE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART LEAGUE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EASTER ISLAND FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $1,640 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $1,000 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 Emerging Scholars Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING FOR ALL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
  • Who funds FUTURE HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds Freedom Within Project ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MICHAELS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE ↗
  • Who funds American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia ↗
  • Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
  • Who funds THE CANARY FUND DBA CANARY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Act for AlexandriaVA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 89 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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