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Charles Ellis Grant&Scholarship

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2021
86
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$86k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
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01What you fund
01FY2021 · 86 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 86 grants below total $1,022,116 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,882,281 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $860,165 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k61 grants · $145k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $361k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $516k
$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
TEACH, LLC$67,125
TEACH, LLC$67,050
TEACH, LLC$64,800
SUCCESSFUL WOMEN ACHIEVING GO$37,000
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
DYNASTY SPIRIT ELITE ALL STARS$21,080
THE CITY SCHOOL$19,450
02Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Curtis Institute of Music and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr17%10%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr17%65%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr17%7%20–35yr15%35%35–55yr17%47%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,141

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

02the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEACH LLC — $365,814 · OtherTEACH LLCMERCY CAREER AND TECHNICAL SCH — $85,850 · OtherMERCY CAREER AND TECHNICAL SCHMERCY CAREER AND TECHNICAL HIGH — $84,315 · OtherMERCY CAREER AND TECHNICAL HIGHSUCCESSFUL WOMEN ACHIEVING GO — $78,621 · OtherSUCCESSFUL WOMEN ACHIEVING GOMERION MERCY ACADEMY — $72,450 · OtherMERION MERCY ACADEMYThe City School — $40,950 · OtherNAZARETH ACADEMY — $35,500 · OtherSACRED HEART ACADEMY BRYN MAW — $35,500 · Other+18 more — $79,955 · Other+18 moreABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL — $20,000 · EducationWYNCOTE ACADEMY — $10,000 · EducationFRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $10,000 · EducationPhiladelphia-Montgomery Christian Academy — $7,300 · EducationTHE BALDWIN SCHOOL — $5,000 · EducationSHIPLEY SCHOOL — $5,000 · EducationSpelman College — $2,750 · Education+3 more — $2,190 · 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$878,955Education$72,240Science & Tech$51,050International$8,550Health$5,981Arts & Culture$4,331Community Improvement$1,009

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWYNCOTE ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $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 budgetTHE BALDWIN SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHIPLEY SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College — $2,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA — $2,735 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 budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS — $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
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Charles Ellis Grant&Scholarship?

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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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