· Private foundation
The Jane and Richard Eskind and 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
50% of The Jane and Richard Eskind and Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to President And Fellows Of Harvard College, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Jane and Richard Eskind and Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $70k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k7 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FISK UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE TEMPLE - CONGREGATION OHABAI SHOLOM | $2,850 |
| MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS | $1,000 |
| LAND TRUST FOR TN | $1,000 |
| NANTUCKET BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $1,000 |
| ALIVE HOSPICE | $1,000 |
| NANTUCKET HISTORY ASSOCIATION | $500 |
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 (FY19–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 29 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $491k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FUFISK UNIVERSITY4× · 2019–2024 · $262k · revenue +40%
- MMMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE3× · 2019–2024 · $112k · revenue +67%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- AACLUone grant, 2019 · $65k
- JFJEWISH FOUNDATION OF NASHVILLEone grant, 2019 · $55k
- SCSOCIETY CLASICLA REFORM JUDAISone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
How this is measured
57 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. 57 of the 123 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.
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FISK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Blum Family Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jane and Richard Eskind and Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jane and Richard Eskind and Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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