Ecmc Group Inc
Minneapolis, MN · EIN 41-1991995. Reported 54 grants totalling $800.5M to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Ecmc Group Inc, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B02) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 29 distinct organizations, with 86% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- How much its list changes. 59% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $24,969. Half of what it reported fell between $8,500 and $127,500; the smallest was $5,013 and the largest $501.6M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $450.0M in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ecmc Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $689.7M | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ecmc Education Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $81.5M | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Educational Credit Management Corporation | Minneapolis, MN | $27.8M | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $686,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Junior Achievement USA | Saint Paul, MN | $151,060 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cristo Rey Jesuit High School | Minneapolis, MN | $108,938 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bestprep | Brooklyn Park, MN | $108,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The UCLA Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $106,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Reve Academy | Minneapolis, MN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cristo Rey Jesuit High School Twin Cities | Minneapolis, MN | $48,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Junior Achievement of Sacramento | Sacramento, CA | $30,100 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Metropolitan State University Foundation | St Paul, MN | $26,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ann Bancroft Foundation | Saint Paul, MN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Junior Achievement of Southern Ca | Los Angeles, CA | $22,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jobs for the Future Inc | Boston, MA | $21,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Inc | Washington, DC | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Reading Partners | Oakland, CA | $15,708 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Minneapolis Regional Chamber Development Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Minnesota Business Partnershipeducation Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Page Education Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Downtown Council of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, MN | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| H I R E D | Minneapolis, MN | $7,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc | Houston, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay | Tampa, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Junior Achievement USA | Atlanta, GA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Matter | St Louis Park, MN | $5,100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
11 of 29 (38%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- University of Minnesota Foundation
JOHN DEPODESTA LEADERSHIP PROGRAM & PROGRAM SPONSORSHIP - The UCLA Foundation
ESTABLISH ENDOWED LECTURE IN NONPROFITS - Cristo Rey Jesuit High School Twin Cities
CORPORATE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM - Junior Achievement North
PROGRAM SPONSORSHIP, GENERAL SUPPORT - Cristo Rey Corporate Internship
WORK STUDY PROGRAM SPONSORSHIP - American Red Cross
MAUI FIRE DISASTER RELIEF
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 of 29 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 7 | $73.5M | $24,938 |
| 2022 | 17 | $528.4M | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 16 | $93.2M | $25,625 |
| 2024 | 14 | $105.6M | $36,530 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
100% of its giving went to organizations in Minnesota. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Find more funders like Ecmc Group Inc
We read newly filed IRS returns and email you the grantmakers whose giving matches your state and cause, as they are published. Free.
No spam, unsubscribe in one click. We never sell or share your address.
Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $24,969 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Minnesota.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Ecmc Group Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 14 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 111 Washington Ave So Ste 1400 14, Minneapolis, MN, 55401.
EIN 41-1991995 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
Is something here wrong about your organization? Email hello@funderscope.com and we will correct it.