Esherick-ye Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811533848
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2025
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5103564736
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $240,518
- Expenses
- $59,419
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
What it reported funding in 2025
The foundation reported 13 grants totaling $51,275. The stated grant purposes included grant for fieldwork research on thesis: permafrost science and the trans-polar history of the qinghai-tibet railway 1954-2006, grant for fieldwork research on thesis: agricultural innovation and wheat variety changes in rural shaanxi 1930-1980, and grant for fieldwork research on thesis: collapse of the sino-vietnamese alliance in cold war yunnan 1964-1993, plus 10 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 86% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filing identifies who received its grants. The filing reports one or more activities that warrant closer review.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 100
- Cost Efficiency: 86
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 98
- Endowment Health: 81
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 86.3%; rating input score 86; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 18 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 95
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Fail
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 10; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 22.47; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 81th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: Grants to individuals not reported.