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Cheryl & Ken Ellegard Foundation at a glance

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Cheryl & Ken Ellegard Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$142k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$113kArts & Culture$50kHealth$32kReligion$26kHuman Services$15kFood & Nutrition$5kPhilanthropy$5kCommunity Improvement$500
02FY2022 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$35k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FERTILE BELTRAMI EDUCATION FOUNDATION$50,000
FRIENDS OF THE CULTURAL CENTER DBA MCCALLUM THEATRE$50,000
MAYO CLINIC$25,000
PALM VALLEY SCHOOL$11,540
DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its 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.

1
The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce

The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce is a regional chamber formed in 2016 to support a diverse business community that spans nearly forty-five miles and serves the needs of nearly 500,000 visitors each year. As a business…

Community Improvement
2
Las Vegas Collegiate

To provide high quality academics to k-5 students

Education
3
Cal Bears in the Desert

Engage alumni to advance support of UC Berkeley.

Education
4
Assistance League of the Pomona Valley

Assistance League Pomona Valley is a nonprofit volunteer organization dedicated to improving the lives and well-being of children and families in our communities.

Human Services
5
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
6
Marcella Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Valley Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
8
The Valley Foundation
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9
Desert Scholarship Foundation

The mission of desert scholarship foundation is to administer and manage scholarship programs to facilitate more opportunities for neighbors to better themselves through education.

Education
10
Desert Montessori School

The mission of desert montessori school (dms) is to provide a personalized, engaging education that inspires a life-long love of learning, fosters meaningful, independent thinking, social responsibility and self- confidence. utilizing the…

Education
11
LaValle Family Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Northwest Valley Chamber of Commerce

To champion economic prosperity, foster pro-buiness climate, and improve the quality of life in our region.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent De Paul Diocese Phoenix; the most unlike its peers is Special Kids-Special Families Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 13 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FERTILE BELTRAMI EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $101,000 · EducationFERTILE BELTRAMI EDUCATION FOUNDATIONTHE PALM VALLEY SCHOOL: $11,540 · EducationTHE PALM VALLEY SCHOOLMAYO CLINIC: $25,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICCONCORDIA LUTHERAN CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherCONCORDIA LUTHERAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUC REGENTS: $5,000 · OtherUC REGENTS+1 more: $500 · OtherFriends of the Cultural Center Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of the Cultural…MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $5,000 · Human ServicesDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyWHITEFISH VETERANS SUPPORT TEAM: $1,000 · HealthSpecial Kids-Special Families Inc: $500 · HealthDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $1,000 · Religion
Education$112,540Other$70,500Arts & Culture$50,000Human Services$5,000Philanthropy$5,000Health$1,500Religion$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFERTILE BELTRAMI EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $101,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetFriends of the Cultural Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PALM VALLEY SCHOOL: $11,540 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITEFISH VETERANS SUPPORT TEAM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSpecial Kids-Special Families Inc: $500 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cheryl & Ken Ellegard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cheryl & Ken Ellegard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 13 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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