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Charles and Marlys Elliott Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$145k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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69% of Charles and Marlys Elliott Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Mayo Clinic, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’22
1
’23
1
’24
1
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 3
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$7.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Charles and Marlys Elliott Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$45k0%
FY20243$45k0%
FY20233$40kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$285kHuman Services$65kEnvironment$25k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Seasons Hospice$40,00030%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($90k), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to Charles and Marlys Elliott Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Charles and Marlys Elliott Foundation

How much does Charles and Marlys Elliott Foundation give?
Charles and Marlys Elliott Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $145,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 3 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Charles and Marlys Elliott Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (76%), Human Services (17%), Environment (7%).
Who are Charles and Marlys Elliott Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Seasons Hospice ($40k).
Does Charles and Marlys Elliott Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charles and Marlys Elliott Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Charles and Marlys Elliott Foundation based?
Charles and Marlys Elliott Foundation is based in MN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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