Echoing Green

Champion No. 4 — Echoing Green | founded 1987 | early-stage fellowship | U.S. budget ≈ $30 M | echoinggreen.org

Echoing Green backs social-impact founders at the moment no one else will. Its fellowship covers a living stipend, health insurance, seed funding, and two years of coaching so leaders can focus full-time on proving their ideas. Alumni—Teach For America, Crisis Text Line, BlocPower, and many more—show how that early lift turns ambitious concepts into nationally recognized models. Most of Echoing Green’s $30 million U.S. budget goes straight into these fellowships and leadership programs; it runs no programs of its own, keeping the spotlight on the entrepreneurs it serves. By spotting talent early, funding their runway, and then stepping aside, Echoing Green acts as a true champion for the next wave of U.S. breakthroughs.