· Private foundation
Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of WILL & ANN EISNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMARICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $10,621 |
| SOCEITY OF ILLUSTRATORS | $8,000 |
| CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES | $6,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE | $1,000 |
| CARTOON ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| COMIC BOOKS FOR KIDS | $1,000 |
| COMIC BOOK LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $1,000 |
| SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS | $1,000 |
| NEW SCHOOL KATCHOR | $1,000 |
| DARE 2 DRAW | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against -64% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TCTHE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +32%
- ALAMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +12%
- SOSOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- CBComic Book Legal Defense Fdone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SCSavannah Colloege of Artone grant, 2020 · $3k
- DPDenver Public Libraryone grant, 2024 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The comic studies society is an interdisciplinary society open to all who share the goals of promoting the critical study of comics, improving comics teaching, and engaging in open and ongoing conversations about the comics world.
To raise appreciation and awareness of illustration in its many forms by providing people of all ages the opportunity to learn directly from master artists and working professionals through exhibitions and workshops provided at public…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Founded by former faculty, staff, and alumni of the columbia college chicago center for book and paper arts, the organizations purpose is to create a new home in chicagoland where artists, writers, readers, and other thoughtful people can…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The association of american law schools' mission is to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.
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."
The national center for jewish film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. ncjf's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of Illustrators Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cypress Place Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 51 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS INC ↗
- Who funds CYPRESS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds COMIC BOOK LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds A COMMITTMENT TO OUR ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds Kessler Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMICBOOKS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds ARC BROWARD INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
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.
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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 Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Kessler Foundation Inc — 54% of income from government
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.
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