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Charles Ellis Grant&Scholarship at a glance

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Charles Ellis Grant&Scholarship

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2021
104
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$86k
Largest
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01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$8.5MCommunity Improvement$188kEmployment$86kYouth Development$79kScience & Tech$51kRecreation & Sports$24kArts & Culture$23kInternational$9kOther$0
02FY2021 · 104 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 104 grants below total $1,187,469, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,882,281 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $694,812 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k76 grants · $192k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $407k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $589k
$3,650
Median grant
4
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCY CAREER AND TECHNICAL SCH$85,850
MERCY CAREER AND TECHNICAL HIGH$84,315
TEACH LLC$74,524
MERION MERCY ACADEMY$72,450
MERION MERCY ACADEMY$72,450
TEACH, LLC$67,125
TEACH, LLC$67,050
TEACH, LLC$64,800
SUCCESSFUL WOMEN ACHIEVING GO$37,000
NAZARETH ACADEMY$35,500
NAZARETH ACADEMY$35,500
ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES$34,650
TEACH, LLC$33,525
SUCCESSFUL WOMEN ACHIEVING GO$28,140
THE CITY SCHOOL$21,500
02Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
The Public School of Germantown

Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…

Education
3
Episcopal Academy

Challenging and nurturing mind, body, and spirit, we inspire boys and girls to lead lives of purpose, faith, and integrity.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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6
Goucher College

Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The College's vision is to become a top-100…

Education
7
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Perkiomen School

A coeducational, college preparatory school serving students in grades 6-12 with a mission of "inspiring students to risk being their best".

Education
10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science Inc

The purpose of the school is to promote, advance and sponsor charitable and educational activities.

Education
12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Curtis Institute of Music; the most unlike its peers is The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEACH LLC: $365,814 · OtherTEACH LLCMERION MERCY ACADEMY: $144,900 · OtherMERION MERCY ACADEMYMERCY CAREER AND TECHNICAL SCH: $85,850 · OtherMERCY CAREER AND TECHNICAL SCHSUCCESSFUL WOMEN ACHIEVING GO: $85,109 · OtherSUCCESSFUL WOMEN ACHIEVING GOMERCY CAREER AND TECHNICAL HIGH: $84,315 · OtherMERCY CAREER AND TECHNICAL HIGHNAZARETH ACADEMY: $71,000 · OtherNAZARETH ACADEMYThe City School: $40,950 · OtherSACRED HEART ACADEMY BRYN MAW: $35,500 · Other+18 more: $107,805 · Other+18 moreWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · EducationWILLIAM P…ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationABINGTON …WYNCOTE ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationWYNCOTE A…THE BALDWIN SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationTHE BALDW…SHIPLEY SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationSHIPLEY S…FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationFRIENDS S…Philadelphia-Montgomery Christian Academy: $7,300 · EducationPhiladelp…Spelman College: $5,500 · EducationSpelman C…+3 more: $2,505 · EducationTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA: $51,050 · Science & TechCIEE Inc: $8,550 · InternationalCONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS INC: $5,981 · HealthSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $2,735 · Arts & CultureCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $1,246 · Arts & CultureWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION: $350 · Arts & CultureBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,009 · Community Improvement
Other$1,021,243Education$95,305Science & Tech$51,050International$8,550Health$5,981Arts & Culture$4,331Community Improvement$1,009

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA: $51,050 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe City School: $40,950 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWYNCOTE ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BALDWIN SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHIPLEY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia-Montgomery Christian Academy: $7,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS INC: $5,981 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $2,735 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $1,260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $1,246 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,009 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $945 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Business Leadership O…Central Pennsylvania …United Way of Greater…The William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Maguire FoundationThe Neubauer Family F…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Ge Aerospace Foundati…National Philanthropi…
Business Leadership Organized for Catholic SchoolsPA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Maguire Foundation · The Neubauer Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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Find your warmest path to Charles Ellis Grant&Scholarship 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.

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 44 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.0M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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