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Episcopal Church Foundation

New York, NY · EIN 13-1776448. Reported 47 grants totalling $768,086 to 28 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

28organizations funded
$10,100median reported grant
$768,086granted, 2021-2024
57%of grantees funded again the next year
9%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Episcopal Church Foundation, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in religion -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE X110).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 28 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 57% 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 $10,100. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $16,830; the smallest was $5,120 and the largest $55,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
19 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
20 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
4 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of AmericaMiddlebury, VT$70,000332024
Diocese of Central PennaHarrisburg, PA$55,000112022
Episcopal Diocese of MinnesotaMinneapolis, MN$55,000112022
Episcopal Diocese of the Rio GrandeAlbuquerque, NM$55,000112022
The Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Michigan IncDetroit, MI$55,000112022
Episcopal Church in the Diocese of CaliforniaSan Francisco, CA$41,326332024
Episcopal Diocese of BethlehemBethlehem, PA$40,822222022
Christ Church RiverdaleBronx, NY$40,330222022
All Saints Episcopal Church RiversideRiverside, CA$34,375332024
Saint Patricks Episcopal ChurchMooresville, NC$32,000222022
Diocese of Missouri Protestant Episcopal ChurchSaint Louis, MO$28,180332024
Emmanuel Episcopal ChurchGrass Valley, CA$27,800332024
Episcopal ProjectRichmond, VA$25,000112024
Town Hall Theater IncMiddlebury, VT$25,000112022
Episcopal Diocese of NhConcord, NH$24,975112021
St Paul's Episcopal ChurchNew Albany, IN$23,900222022
St Lukes ChurchAnnapolis, MD$20,250332023
Trinity Episcopal ChurchAsheville$18,820332024
St Thomas Episcopal ChurchBattle Creek, MI$16,000222023
Grace Episcopal Church$11,000112024
Kent School CorporationKent, CT$10,600112021
Cross Cultural Studies ProgramMinneapolis, MN$10,000112022
Church of the RedeemerSayre, PA$10,000112021
Episcopal Relief and DevelopmentNew York, NY$9,779112021
Trustees of Dartmouth CollegeHanover, NH$9,525112021
Episcopal Church of St MatthewTucson, AZ$7,654112021
Friends of Valley ForgeKng of Prussa, PA$5,500112024
Christ Episcopal ChurchTarrytown, NY$5,250112022

12 of 28 (43%) 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.

It also reported 6 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 5 of 28 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.

Education
2 orgs
Religion
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org
Human Services
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202114$187,833$10,300
202219$384,207$10,000
20235$56,560$10,060
20249$139,486$11,000

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

15% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. 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.

Pennsylvania
$111K
California
$104K
Vermont
$95K
Michigan
$71K
Minnesota
$65K
New York
$55K
New Mexico
$55K
New Hampshire
$34K

Down to the city

Middlebury, VT
$95K
Minneapolis, MN
$65K
Harrisburg, PA
$55K
Albuquerque, NM
$55K
Detroit, MI
$55K
San Francisco, CA
$41K

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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.

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How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,100 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
  4. 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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Episcopal Church Foundation'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 9 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: 475 Riverside Drive 750, New York, NY, 10115.

EIN 13-1776448 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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