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Warren and Kateryna Esanu Family Foundation at a glance

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Warren and Kateryna Esanu 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.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$13kArts & Culture$10kEducation$8kHealth$6kEmployment$2kInternational$1kReligion$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$60k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HATZALAH OF THE ROCKAWAYS AND NASSAUR COUNTY$1,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UCLA FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%HATZALAH OF THE ROCKAWAYS AND NASSAUR COUNTY: $1k → 6%VARIOUS DONATIONS: $974 → 9%ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $1k → 13%LEAP: $500 → 17%VERTICAL PLAYER REPERTORY: $2k → 20%US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $1k → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%SYDNEY KIMMEL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $1k → 19%UCLA HEALTH: $2k → 14%OTHER DONATIONS: $3 → 9%ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $500 → 13%LEAP: $500 → 17%VERTICAL PLAYER REPERTORY: $2k → 20%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%SYDNEY KIMMEL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $500 → 19%UCLA HEALTH: $1k → 14%LEAP: $500 → 17%VERTICAL PLAYER REPERTORY: $550 → 20%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%EARLY STEPS: $250 → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 17%WOMENS THEATRE: $500 → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $600 → 17%THE CHABAD RELIEF PROJECT: $3k → 17%CHABAD RELIEF PROJECT: $3k → 17%THE INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN AND TALMUDIC LAW: $3k → 17%CHABAD RELIEF PROJECT: $2k → 17%THE CHABAD RELIEF PROJECT: $2k → 17%THE CHABAD RELIEF PROJECT: $1k → 17%CHABAD RELIEF PROJECT: $1k → 17%THE CHABAD RELIEF PROJECT: $1k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1k → 17%NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $180 → 17%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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28k · 7 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$28k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+8%

Still filing today

43%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyEducationInternationalOther
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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    3× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +58%
  • LI
    LEAP INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +59%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • IO
    INSTITUE OF AMERICAN AND TALMUDICLAW INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +8%
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.

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
7
New York Historical Society

The founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…

Arts & Culture
8
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
9
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
10
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
11
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
12
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brown University; the most unlike its peers is Chabad Relief 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHABAD RELIEF PROJECT INC: $12,800 · Food & NutritionCHABAD RELIEF PROJECT INCUCLA HEALTH: $3,000 · OtherUCLA HEALTHINSTITUE OF AMERICAN AND TALMUDICLAW INC: $2,500 · OtherINSTITUE OF AMERICAN AND TALM…SYDNEY KIMMEL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $1,500 · OtherSYDNEY KIMMEL COMPREHENSIVE C…HATZALAH OF THE ROCKAWAYS AND NASSAUR COUNTY: $1,000 · OtherHATZALAH OF THE ROCKAWAYS AND…VARIOUS DONATIONS: $974 · OtherVARIOUS DONATIONSWOMENS THEATRE: $500 · OtherTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 · OtherTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION …+2 more: $253 · OtherVERTICAL PLAYER REPERTORY LTD: $5,000 · Arts & CultureVERTICAL PLAYER REPERTORY…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,100 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF AR…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocau…+1 more: $180 · Arts & CultureBROWN UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · Community ImprovementST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $1,500 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationLEAP INC: $1,500 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,000 · International
Food & Nutrition$12,800Other$10,727Arts & Culture$9,280Community Improvement$3,000Education$2,500Housing & Shelter$1,500International$1,000

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 budgetCHABAD RELIEF PROJECT INC: $12,800 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEAP INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARLY STEPS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $180 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 Warren and Kateryna Esanu Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Warren and Kateryna Esanu Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Warren and Kateryna Esanu Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Warren and Kateryna Esanu Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 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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