How much does The Esr Foundation give?

The Esr Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $60,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Esr Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (25%), Education (17%), Religion (11%).

Who are The Esr Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The United Way of Lee County Inc ($43k), St Johns Episcopal Parish Day School Inc ($27k), Casting Nets Ministries Inc ($14k).

Does The Esr Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Esr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Esr Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triad Foundation Inc, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc.

Where is The Esr Foundation based?

The Esr Foundation is based in FL.

The Esr Foundation

The Esr Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$60k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$8k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$110kEducation$73kReligion$50kPhilanthropy$43kInternational$30kHuman Services$30kFood & Nutrition$26kEnvironment$25kOther$0

02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MAYO CLINIC	$8,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$7,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK	$5,000
FOLDS OF HONOR	$5,000
SAN DOMENICO FUND	$4,000
Individual grant recipient	$3,500
CONSECRATED WOMEN IN DC	$3,500
SAVE OUR HEROS PROJECT	$3,000
1776 FOUNDATION	$3,000
PATRIOT FREEDOM PROJECT	$3,000
CORAL REEF ALLIANCE	$2,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN	$2,000
ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP	$2,000
Individual grant recipient	$2,000

02The need

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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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 25% of The Esr Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Esr Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 4.3% 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$280k · 33 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$280k

$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+23%

Still filing today

70%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationHealthInternationalCrime & LegalOther

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

The United Way of Lee County Inc
6× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +137%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
5× · 2018–2025 · $14k · revenue +89%
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +53%

Funded once

NC
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL
one grant, 2018 · $5k
MF
MUSC FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $5k
YC
YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST)graduated
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +90%

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.

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

Project Drawdown

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;…

Education

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

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

Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment

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

Floresta Usa Incorporated

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…

International

Rainforest Alliance Inc

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.

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Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health

Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition

Pathfinder International

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…

International

Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; 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.

05the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 72 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/41

Grantees still filing

32/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$194,000Health$96,308Philanthropy$42,731Human Services$33,250Environment$26,250International$24,100Education$22,500

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.

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.

Triad Foundation IncNY13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Esr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Esr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home