· Private foundation
The Esr 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 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO CLINIC | $8,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $7,000 |
| HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $5,000 |
| SAN DOMENICO FUND | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| CONSECRATED WOMEN IN DC | $3,500 |
| 1776 FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| PATRIOT FREEDOM PROJECT | $3,000 |
| SAVE OUR HEROS PROJECT | $3,000 |
| CORAL REEF ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP | $2,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 25% of The Esr Foundation’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.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 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; $10k 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
The United Way of Lee County Inc6× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +137%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2018–2025 · $14k · revenue +89%
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC5× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- YCYESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST)graduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +90%
- MFMUSC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAELone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
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…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
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…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Green Heart Project Inc. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 72 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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds The United Way of Lee County Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CASTING NETS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds SUZERAIN ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HOPEWILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST) ↗
- Who funds TURN90 ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES INC ↗
- Who funds DOORS TO FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WILDCARE ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Tampa Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) ↗
- Who funds MONTEZUMA LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SAVING SIGHT AND SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Triad Foundation Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Esr 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Tampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.