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Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
36%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,621
Organizations funded a year
14 to 33
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$30k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$32k0%
FY202414$34k36%
FY202320$47k0%
FY202221$65k0%
FY202131$86k23%
FY202033$117k33%
FY201926$115k4%
FY201824$121k0%
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What it funded, over time

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

Education$305kArts & Culture$263kHealth$87kCivil Rights$44kEmployment$19kReligion$12kInternational$8kScience & Tech$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
NC
DC
MS
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Center for Cartoon Studies$155,00093%
American Library Association$90,89790%
Society of Illustrators Inc$78,00091%
Cypress Place Inc$19,00070%
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Inc$13,00053%
Dare2draw Inc$12,0009n/a
A Committment to Our Roots Inc$12,00071%
Sequential Artists Workshop$10,00052%
Hope House Inc$10,00050%
The New School$8,50040%
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All grantees of Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Center for Cartoon Studies$155,00093%
American Library Association$90,89790%
Society of Illustrators Inc$78,00091%
Cypress Place Inc$19,00070%
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Inc$13,00053%
Dare2draw Inc$12,0009n/a
A Committment to Our Roots Inc$12,00071%
Sequential Artists Workshop$10,00052%
Hope House Inc$10,00050%
The New School$8,50040%
Kessler Foundation Inc$8,00050%
Comicbooks for Kids$7,00062%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$7,00070%
Anti-Defamation League$6,00060%
Arc Broward Inc$4,50050%
Kansas City Public Library$2,5691n/a
University of Southern Mississippi$2,5291n/a
American Friends of Magen David Adom$2,50050%
Jewish Family Services of Greater Orlando Inc$2,00040%
Reading With Pictures$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($288k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Center for Cartoon Studies: $155,000 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetAmerican Library Association: $90,897 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSociety of Illustrators Inc: $78,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCypress Place Inc: $19,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetComic Book Legal Defense Fund Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetA Committment to Our Roots Inc: $12,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetSequential Artists Workshop: $10,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetHope House Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe New School: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKessler Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetComicbooks for Kids: $7,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetArc Broward Inc: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family Services of Greater Orlando Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC7.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc

How much does Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc give?
Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $31,621 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Arts & Culture (35%), Health (12%).
Who are Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Center for Cartoon Studies ($155k), American Library Association ($91k), Society of Illustrators Inc ($78k).
Does Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc based?
Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

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 51 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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