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The Saul and Theresa Esman Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Saul and Theresa Esman Foundation Inc

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.

$98k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0177% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.1MInternational$293kEducation$262kHuman Services$232kHousing & Shelter$137kArts & Culture$97kYouth Development$38kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$3,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$40,000
JOE DIMAGGIO HOSPITAL$10,000
MIAMI RESCUE MISSION$8,000
GLADES INITIATIVE$5,000
QUANTUM HOUSE$5,000
RONALD MCDONLALD HOUSE$5,000
GOLDEN BELL FOUNDATION$4,000
MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE$3,500
INTL WAGR ASSOC$3,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$3,000
CAMP BOGGY CREEK$3,000
FULLER CENTER FOUNDATION$3,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS ET AL$3,000
SARI ASHER CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE CANCER CARE$1,000
GOD FIRST MINISTRIES$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GLADES INITIATIVE: $30k → 11%GLADES INITIATIVE: $28k → 11%GLADES INITIATIVE: $26k → 11%GLADES INITIATIVE: $25k → 11%GLADES INITIATIVE: $20k → 11%GLADES INITIATIVE: $5k → 11%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 23 repeat orgs$412k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
30

Total granted

$2.5M
$406k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+10%

Still filing today

30%
3%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BR
    Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $203k · revenue +54%
  • QH
    QUANTUM HOUSE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $147k · revenue +111%
  • TG
    THE GLADES INITIATIVE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $134k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • BR
    BOCA RATON HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $60k
  • FI
    FLA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $55k
  • KS
    KID SAFE
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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
Baptist Health Medical Group Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of baptist health medical group inc is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist…

Health
2
Miami Cancer Institute At Baptist Health Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of miami cancer institute at baptist health, inc is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve.…

Health
3
Doctors Hospital Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of doctors hospital, inc. is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…

Health
4
Baptist Hospital of Miami Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of baptist hospital of miami is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…

Health
5
South Miami Hospital Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of south miami hospital is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…

Health
6
West Kendall Baptist Hospital Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of west kendall baptist hospital, inc. is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist…

Health
7
Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of baptist health south florida foundation, inc is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve.…

Health
8
Baptist Health South Florida Inc

The mission of baptist health is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a faith-based organization guided by the spirit of…

Health
9
Homestead Hospital Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of homestead hospital inc. is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…

Health
10
Mariners Hospital Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of mariner's hospital is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…

Health
11
Bethesda Hospital Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of bethesda hospital is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…

Health
12
Baptist Outpatient Services Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of baptist outpatient services is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 55 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIV: $485,000 · OtherFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVIndividual grant recipient: $319,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJOE DIMAGGIO HOSPITAL: $308,600 · OtherJOE DIMAGGIO HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient: $140,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJUVENILE DIABETES: $130,000 · OtherJUVENILE DIABETESRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $124,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEIndividual grant recipient: $115,000 · OtherMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE: $97,470 · Other+39 more: $563,053 · Other+39 moreBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $203,000 · HealthBoca Raton Regio…QUANTUM HOUSE INC: $146,500 · HealthQUANTUM HOUSE IN…THE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC: $33,000 · HealthTHE BOGGY CREEK …INTERNATIONAL WAGR SYNDROME ASSOCIATION: $16,000 · Health+2 more: $12,500 · HealthTHE GLADES INITIATIVE INC: $133,500 · Human ServicesMiami Rescue Mission Inc: $72,410 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,282,623Health$411,000Human Services$133,500Housing & Shelter$72,410

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 budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $203,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetQUANTUM HOUSE INC: $146,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTHE GLADES INITIATIVE INC: $133,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetMiami Rescue Mission Inc: $72,410 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC: $33,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WAGR SYNDROME ASSOCIATION: $16,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSari Asher Center for Integrative Cancer Care Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds QUANTUM HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GLADES INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Miami Rescue Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL WAGR SYNDROME ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Saul and Theresa Esman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Saul and Theresa Esman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 55 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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