Sample funder match
How ECHOING GREEN INC stacks up for Riverside Youth Coding Academy.
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ECHOING GREEN INC
EIN 13-3424419
Fit score
78
Fit analysis
Why this funder ranked where it did against the sample org's mission and programs.
Echoing Green appears to be a strong prospect for Riverside Youth Coding Academy, primarily through its open, global Fellowship for early-stage social entrepreneurs. The mission overlap is meaningful: Echoing Green funds education, poverty, racial justice, and leadership-development work, and Riverside’s free coding-to-apprenticeship model for youth of color in the Bay Area fits that systems-change orientation. Geographic fit is also strong enough to clear the gating threshold: California received 16.1% of total grant dollars, and the foundation has a documented concentration in Oakland ($840,000 across 13 grants) and San Francisco ($610,000 across 8 grants), which directly matches Riverside’s Bay Area positioning. The main limiting factors are structural, not geographic: Echoing Green primarily funds founders through a fellowship model rather than making broad institutional grants, and the available grantee data for Riverside is incomplete on budget, age, staff size, and founder profile. This is worth pursuing if Riverside has a clear founder/CEO applicant and remains early-stage; otherwise, it drops materially in fit.
Strategic framing
Position Riverside as a founder-led social innovation venture that closes racialized opportunity gaps by connecting public-school students to real paid technical work, not merely as an extracurricular coding provider. The application should stress the integrated model—free in-school, after-school, summer, and apprenticeship pathways—as a replicable intervention in workforce equity. The strongest frame is systems change: transforming who gets access to early technical experience, paid work, civic-tech pathways, and community-college transitions. Emphasize measurable early proof points and why seed capital plus strategic support would unlock the next stage of growth.
What's working
- Direct alignment with education, poverty, racial justice, and youth opportunity.
- Documented Bay Area grantmaking in Oakland and San Francisco strengthens geographic credibility.
- Riverside’s apprenticeship pipeline and employer-mentor model is more differentiated than a standard coding nonprofit.
- Open application process makes this accessible without prior relationship.
What's marginal
- Riverside’s founder/leadership profile is missing, but Echoing Green’s Fellowship is explicitly founder-centered.
- Riverside’s stage is unspecified; if it is no longer early-stage, fit weakens significantly.
- Budget, staff size, and organizational age are not available, limiting confidence in organizational fit.
- The current description emphasizes program delivery; Echoing Green will likely expect a systems-change and social-innovation framing, not just youth services.
- No known staff or board connections to Echoing Green were identified.
Programs that match
- Echoing Green Fellowship
- Echoing Green Follow‑On Funding (general)
What we'd want to confirm
- Who is the founder or qualifying lead applicant, and are they fully dedicated to the venture?
- Is Riverside still early-stage enough for fellowship consideration?
- Can Riverside demonstrate outcomes beyond participation, such as paid placements, wage gains, persistence, or postsecondary transitions?
- Can the organization articulate a model that scales or influences systems, not just a local program?
- Does Riverside have enough organizational readiness to absorb fellowship support and network opportunities?
Suggested next steps
- Confirm whether Riverside has an original founder or leading founder who works full-time and can credibly serve as the Fellowship applicant.
- Assess organizational stage honestly; if Riverside is beyond early-stage or already highly institutionalized, deprioritize this prospect.
- Reframe the case from 'coding program' to 'equity-centered redesign of school-to-apprenticeship pathways for underrepresented youth in the Bay Area.'
- Prepare evidence of early traction: student outcomes, apprenticeship placements, employer partnerships, school district traction, and demand signals from Oakland/San Francisco schools.
- Build a concise scale thesis focused on replication or systems leverage, especially civic-tech, nonprofit-sector apprenticeships, and community-college transfer pathways.
- Target an ask around $80,000 if application materials permit budget framing; do not lead with a multi-year request.
- Monitor the annual fellowship cycle and sign up for updates immediately, since the application window is time-bound and currently closed for the referenced cycle.
Generated by Kindora's AI from the funder's public 990 filings, public website, and aggregated public grant history.
Funder snapshot
Capacity and giving footprint at a glance — drawn from the latest public 990 filings.
Total assets
$74M
Annual giving
$15M
Geographic scope
National
14% in NY
Application mode
Not specified
| Grant size | 25th percentile | Median | 75th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Range across recent grants | $25k | $80k | $100k |
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Source: Latest public IRS Form 990 / 990-PF filings and aggregated public grant histories.
Focus areas
Themes Kindora extracted from the funder's public profile, program pages, and grant history.
Programmatic focus
Funding philosophy
Beneficiary types
Source: Public funder websites, public program pages, and AI synthesis of public 990 filings.
Recent giving signals
A look at where this funder has placed grants recently — useful for benchmarking and warm-intro paths.
No notable grantees pulled yet for this funder. The funder's stated focus areas are below — Kindora updates this as new public 990s are filed.
Stated focus areas (from public profile)
- Climate Change
- Education
- Health
- Human Rights
- Poverty
- Racial Justice
Source: Public 990 grant lists and the funder's own published program descriptions.
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