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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 23-7123039

The Echo Foundation

A private foundation in New York, NY. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 6 grants and $18,790 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending May 31, 2026), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $18,790

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $19,191

  • Tax year 2024

    $29,140

    Grants listed
    8
    Assets, end of year
    $18,381

  • Tax year 2023

    $22,500

    Grants listed
    8
    Assets, end of year
    $47,606

  • Tax year 2022

    $15,250

    Grants listed
    8
    Assets, end of year
    $45,131

  • Tax year 2021

    $21,000

    Grants listed
    10
    Assets, end of year
    $10,526

  • Tax year 2020

    $16,500

    Grants listed
    10
    Assets, end of year
    $6,911

  • Tax year 2019

    $30,400

    Grants listed
    17
    Assets, end of year
    $23,826

  • Tax year 2018

    $45,930

    Grants listed
    27
    Assets, end of year
    $29,451

Grants paid in 2025

6 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Fashion Institute of Technology FoundationNew York, NY

    Scholarship

    $7,500
  2. Parsons the New School of DesignNew York, NY

    Scholarship

    $3,500
  3. Rhode Island School of DesignProvidence, RI

    Scholarship

    $3,500
  4. Father's Daymother's Day CouncilLong Is City, NY

    General purpose

    $2,890
  5. Weill Cornell Medical CollegeNew York, NY

    Scholarship

    $1,000
  6. Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and Cultural SocietyPrinceton, NJ

    General purpose

    $400

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Education1 grant $3,50052% of the total
  2. Human services1 grant $2,89043% of the total
  3. Arts and culture1 grant $4006% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. New York4 grants $14,890
  2. Rhode Island1 grant $3,500
  3. New Jersey1 grant $400

Officers, directors and trustees

3 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Steven D RobertsPRESIDENT-CEO Hours 1.5Pay $0
  • Lynn RobertsSECRETARY-TREASURER Hours 1.5Pay $0
  • Susan FarrellCHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Hours 1.5Pay $0

The return

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