How much does Walter & Ursula Eberspacher Foundat give?

Walter & Ursula Eberspacher Foundat reported 54 grants totaling $1,206,600 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 54 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Walter & Ursula Eberspacher Foundat fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are International (50%), Environment (13%), Philanthropy (12%).

Who are Walter & Ursula Eberspacher Foundat's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation ($1.2M), The Friendship Bridge ($824k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($217k).

Does Walter & Ursula Eberspacher Foundat fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Walter & Ursula Eberspacher Foundat 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 Walter & Ursula Eberspacher Foundat?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Boulder County, Colorado Gives Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.

Where is Walter & Ursula Eberspacher Foundat based?

Walter & Ursula Eberspacher Foundat is based in CO.

Walter & Ursula Eberspacher Foundat

Walter & Ursula Eberspacher Foundat at a glance

· Private foundation

Walter & Ursula Eberspacher Foundat

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$70k

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Walter & Ursula Eberspacher Foundat’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Walter & Ursula Eberspacher Foundat named its own grantees at scale: 44 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$4.3MEnvironment$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.0MAnimals$570kPublic Safety & Disaster$465kEducation$329kHuman Services$325kFood & Nutrition$197kOther$0

02FY2023 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k11 grants · $32k
$10k–50k35 grants · $755k
$50k–250k8 grants · $420k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MERCY CORPORATION	$70,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$50,000
OXFAM AMERICA	$50,000
FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE	$50,000
AMERICARES	$50,000
PROJECT HOPE	$50,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN	$50,000
USA FOR UNHCR	$50,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE US	$40,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL	$35,000
CARE	$30,000
CARTER CENTER	$30,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH	$30,000
SALVATION ARMY	$30,000
EARTHJUSTICE	$30,000

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 (FY18–23, $233k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.3M · 55 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 4 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.3M

$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+76%

Still filing today

82%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalAnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
7× · 2017–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +120%
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THE FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE
7× · 2017–2023 · $824k · revenue +124%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $217k · revenue +98%

Funded once

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THE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +76%
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PINE RIDGE GIRLS SCHOOL INC
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +1%

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.

Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment

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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Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition

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

Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment

Rainforest Alliance Holding 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.

Environment

International Snow Leopard Trust

The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…

Animals

Rights and Resources Institute Inc

Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…

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

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

Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals

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 Pine Ridge Girls School 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

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 64 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)

53/54

Grantees still filing

48/54

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$3,199,000Health$1,176,000Other$1,470,650Philanthropy$1,030,900Environment$910,000Animals$508,500Education$269,000

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.

Community Foundation Boulder CountyCO19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Boulder County · Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Denver Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Allen Wyoming Foundation Inc · Lynn & Helen N Clark Crt · Mentor Graphics Foundation · El Pomar Foundation

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 Walter & Ursula Eberspacher Foundat funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter & Ursula Eberspacher Foundat. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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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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

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home