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The Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc

The Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $373,832 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($102,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$353k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$374k
Net assets
$983k
10/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What The Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc does

Mission

To provide educational programs for a healthy lifestyle as well as to provide charitable giving and benevolent assistance throughout the United States.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. We teach the public about the benefits of plant-based nutrition through conducting seminars and conferences throughout the US. We use educational programs and events regarding whole food plant based diets to inform the public on lifestyle related diseases and healthy living for an improved quality of life.

    $80,316 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $80,316.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($331k) Expenses 100 ($51k) Net assets 100 ($280k)2020 Revenue 54 ($179k) Expenses 239 ($123k) Net assets 140 ($391k)2021 Revenue 61 ($203k) Expenses 222 ($114k) Net assets 171 ($480k)2022 Revenue 59 ($195k) Expenses 249 ($128k) Net assets 195 ($546k)2023 Revenue 71 ($236k) Expenses 242 ($124k) Net assets 236 ($662k)2024 Revenue 83 ($275k) Expenses 286 ($147k) Net assets 282 ($790k)2025 Revenue 107 ($353k) Expenses 312 ($160k) Net assets 351 ($983k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (107)Expenses (312)Net assets (351)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $790k to $987k (+25%).

$280k
$394k
$480k
$547k
$662k
$790k
$987k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

92% of The Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$280k
’19
$56k
’20
$88k
’21
$66k
’22
$112k
’23
$128k
’24
$193k
’25
73
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed5556666
Joined·+0+0+1+1+0+0
No longer listed·000100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $113k → $61k.

11 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of The Esselstyn Family Foundation 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

The Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

81% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund The Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc.

27%
largest funder
56%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 91% · 2020 80% · 2021 55% · 2022 38% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

33% of The Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

81% of The Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $72k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 7 states.

IL
OH
UT
CO
NC
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $302k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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

The Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin55% · top quartile
Months of reserve72.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

50% of spending goes to programs.

Program 50%Management 35%Fundraising 15%

Governance

6
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc?
The Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $373,832 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($102,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does The Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $373,832 in grants to The Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc?
AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $102,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 20 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