· Private foundation
David W Ellis Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $10,000 |
| MEMORY MATTERS | $4,600 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,500 |
| DEEP WELL | $2,500 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,000 |
| HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ST MARY'S COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING | $1,000 |
| SEA PINES FOREST PRESERVE FOUNDATIO | $820 |
| ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA | $500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $400 |
| COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $250 |
| HARBOR VIEW FUN RUN | $213 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMMEMORY MATTERS9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +48%
- ACARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +31%
- HCHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- SOSIX OAKS CEMETERY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $2k
- CDCOMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT CORPone grant, 2024 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Tandem health sc is a comprehensive primary healthcare practice dedicated to building a healthy community and improving the health, well-being, and quality of life of each person served.
Hampton regional medical center's mission statement is to provide: compassion, commitment, and excellence. every person, every time.
Mirasol health is a nonprofit, community-focused healthcare organization dedicated to honoring life through compassionate care and support for individuals facing chronic conditions, end-of-life, or grief. proudly serving beaufort, jasper,…
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
To operate a health care system providing medical excellence to the eastern region of south carolina and the extreme southeastern region of north carolina.
Since its founding, our mission has always stayed the same: the prevention of cruelty to animals. in 1874, charleston animal society became the first animal organization in south carolina and one of the first in the nation and has never…
It is the mission of continuecare hospital at hendrick medical center to deliver high quality healthcare emphasizing excellence and compassion consistent with the healing ministry of jesus christ.
Mcleod physician associates ii operates as a part of the mcleod health system. the mission of mcleod health is to improve the overall health and well being of people living within south carolina and eastern north carolina by providing…
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
Informed advocacy relating to the cure, treatment and prevention for herpes simplex virus types 1 + 2 infections.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 58 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds MEMORY MATTERS ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SEA PINES FOREST PRESERVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds The Charleston Parks Conservancy ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds VICKSBURG-WARREN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Heritage Classic Foundation · The Bargain Box · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Breedlove Foundation Im 020120186528 · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Ekedahl Foundation · The Marshall Miller Foundation · The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation · The Gleason Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Michael & Louise Lynch Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David W Ellis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David W Ellis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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