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Theodore W & Betty J Eckels Fdn-Tr

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.

$610k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Education$802kArts & Culture$655kReligion$420kInternational$345kHealth$190kEnvironment$70kAnimals$30kYouth Development$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $455k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$68M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIXON GALLERY AND GARDENS$150,000
CHURCH OF HOLY COMMUNION EPISCOPAL$100,000
RHODES COLLEGE$90,000
REAL PARTNERS UGANDA INC$60,000
PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC$55,000
THE HUTCHISON SCHOOL$35,000
MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION$25,000
PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE$25,000
MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TR$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
FRIENDS OF QUEENS UNIV BELFAST INC$15,000
WESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC$10,000
THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
NJ
CA
MO
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DC
GA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 19 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
2

Total granted

$2.4M
$70k

Still filing today

68%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

  • DG
    Dixon Gallery and Gardens
    7× · 2019–2025 · $620k · revenue +20%
  • RC
    Rhodes College
    7× · 2019–2025 · $400k · revenue +33%
  • RP
    REAL PARTNERS UGANDA INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $290k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMMUNION
    one grant, 2023 · $60k
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF MEMPHIS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

2
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
3
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
4
Harvey Mudd College

HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…

Education
5
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
6
Memphis Academy of Science and Engineeri

To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community

Education
7
Oxford University School

Providing educational services to children in grades pre-k through 7th grade

8
Hammond School

The mission of hammond school is to instill in students a commitment to academic excellence and recognition of individual potential that will contribute to the development of their characters.

Education
9
Hillbrook School

Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…

Education
10
University School of Jackson

The university school of jackson, a distinctive college preparatory school, seeks to instill a passion for academic excellence and lifelong learning so each student will reach his/her maximum potential.

Education
11
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
12
Thomas University

Thomas university is an independent, not for profit, institution of higher education with undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare students for successful careers and responsible citizenship in a rapidly changing and complex world.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princeton Day School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dream Catchers 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Rhodes College — $400,000 · EducationRhodes CollegeMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC — $90,000 · EducationMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP …THE HUTCHISON SCHOOL — $75,000 · EducationTHE HUTCHISON SCHOOLPRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC — $67,000 · EducationPRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INCUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION — $65,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATIONDream Catchers Inc — $35,000 · Education+1 more — $20,000 · EducationTHE CHURCH OF HOLY COMMUNION — $200,000 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF HOLY COMMUNIONCHURCH OF HOLY COMMUNION EPISCOPAL — $160,000 · OtherCHURCH OF HOLY COMMUNION EPISC…MAYO CLINIC — $90,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICTHE CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMMUNION — $60,000 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMMUNI…THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) — $55,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA…Individual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEMORY UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF QUEENS UNIV BELFAST INC — $25,000 · Other+3 more — $40,000 · Other+3 moreDixon Gallery and Gardens — $620,000 · Arts & CultureDixon Gallery and GardensARTSMEMPHIS — $35,000 · Arts & CultureARTSMEMPHISREAL PARTNERS UGANDA INC — $290,000 · InternationalREAL PARTNER…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $100,000 · HealthMEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 · EnvironmentPURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 · Youth Development
Education$752,000Other$695,000Arts & Culture$655,000International$290,000Health$100,000Environment$70,000Youth Development$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDixon Gallery and Gardens — $620,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetRhodes College — $400,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetREAL PARTNERS UGANDA INC — $290,000 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC — $90,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTHE HUTCHISON SCHOOL — $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC — $67,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) — $55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDream Catchers Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetARTSMEMPHIS — $35,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHumane Society of Memphis & Shelby County — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Dixon Gallery and Gardens
  • Who funds Rhodes College
  • Who funds REAL PARTNERS UGANDA INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC
  • Who funds THE HUTCHISON SCHOOL
  • Who funds MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS)
  • Who funds Dream Catchers Inc
  • Who funds ARTSMEMPHIS
  • Who funds PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County
  • Who funds MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
  • Who funds WESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC

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.

Christian Community Foundation of MemphisTN21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Thomas Garrott Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Sims Family Charitable Trust 44-5001145 · Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Canale Foundation Inc · Brinkley Taf Brinkley Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Goldsmith Family Foundation Inc · Belz Foundation

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 Theodore W & Betty J Eckels Fdn-Tr 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.

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no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Theodore W & Betty J Eckels Fdn-Tr?

    Find your warmest path to Theodore W & Betty J Eckels Fdn-Tr through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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