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Expanding ESOPs Inc

Expanding ESOPs Inc (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,000,000 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($500,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$855k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$383k
1/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Expanding ESOPs Inc does

Mission

Expanding ESOPs, Inc's mission is to research, educate and inform the public about the benefits of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), as well as researching ways in which private and public enterprises could partner in an effort to expand the use of ESOPs, thereby facilitating millions of working class Americans obtaining stock ownership in their employer.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Narrative Building- By commissioning opinion polling; delivering speeches and participating on panels at conferences; drafting and publishing op-eds from frontline employee owners and company founders; and conducting media outreach, we worked to increase awareness of broad-based employee ownership and the need to expand ESOPs to build worker wealth and stronger companies.

    $294,610 spent
    62% of program spending

  2. Coalition Building- We built a coalition of organizations united by the mission to dramatically expand employee ownership. For the first time, a broad cross section of the employee ownership community is coming together not just to service or protect employee ownership in its existing form, but to bring its benefits to more workers and companies across the country. We've grown to nearly 100 organizations, including financial institutions, ESOP service providers, law firms, foundations, advocacy groups and more.

    $89,839 spent
    19% of program spending

  3. Policy Development- Via engagement with our coalition members, a listening tour of large companies and more, we've begun work to develop a comprehensive policy proposal that would unlock ESOP activity at large companies across the country and economy. We started by identifying the roadblocks preventing large companies from adopting ESOPs and then working through various ideas to overcome those hurdles via modernizing the 50+ year-old ESOP law

    $87,500 spent
    19% of program spending

  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $471,949.

02The organization over time
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
1

From the IRS filings of Expanding ESOPs Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Expanding ESOPs Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

Expanding ESOPs Inc draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.

NY
NJ

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Expanding ESOPs Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin45% · top quartile
Months of reserve9.7mo · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Expanding ESOPs Inc

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Ownership Works Inc77%Economic Security Project Action Inc76%Economic Security Project Inc76%Expanded Schools Inc75%Working in Support of Education Inc74%New Economy Project Inc73%Escr-Net International73%Explore Schools Inc73%

Nationally

The Employee Ownership Foundation Inc81%Employee Ownership Expansion Network81%Ownership Works Inc77%Economic Security Project Action Inc76%Economic Security Project Inc76%Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc76%American Promise Education Fund Inc76%The Esop Association76%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Expanding ESOPs Inc?
Expanding ESOPs Inc (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,000,000 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($500,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Expanding ESOPs Inc have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,000,000 in grants to Expanding ESOPs Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Expanding ESOPs Inc?
THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Expanding ESOPs Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing