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Donna L Elliott Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$107kEducation$72kHuman Services$41kArts & Culture$21kHousing & Shelter$16kPublic Benefit$12kYouth Development$9kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$158k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TURNING POINT USA$5,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$5,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$3,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$2,500
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE US$1,000
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION$1,000
KAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION$1,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$1,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$1,000
CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRIN$1,000
NAPLES ART ASSOCIATION$1,000
BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION$1,000
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS$500
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND$500
AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $200 → 12%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $1k → 14%KIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $1k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $200 → 12%BOYS TOWN: $200 → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$243k · 40 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
33

Total granted

$243k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+31%

Still filing today

68%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $36k · revenue +125%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +112%
  • SM
    ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $16k · revenue +262%

Funded once

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES SOU
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • NM
    NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • TB
    TEAM BLUELINE
    one grant, 2022 · $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.

04Its 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
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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2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
4
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
5
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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11
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heritage Action for America; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 77 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
30/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $36,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA…THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $30,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $10,200 · HealthBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATIONSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN+5 more: $5,700 · Health+5 moreTHE SALVATION ARMY: $15,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYST MATTHEWS HOUSE NAPLES FLORIDA: $15,000 · OtherST MATTHEWS HOUSE NAPLES FLORIDAAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · OtherAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATIONDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: $5,500 · OtherDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANSTURNING POINT USA INC: $5,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCSOUTHWEST FLORIDA PASTEL SOCIETY: $3,200 · OtherCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $5,000 · OtherCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER+43 more: $29,750 · Other+43 moreHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $30,500 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGESTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $18,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TO…BELOIT COLLEGE: $10,500 · EducationBELOIT COLLEGEKAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · EducationKAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATIO…PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $4,500 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIN…+2 more: $1,600 · EducationCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC: $8,100 · Arts & CultureNAPLES ART ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $700 · Arts & CultureST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $16,100 · Housing & ShelterFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,300 · Human ServicesKIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $600 · Human Services
Health$91,900Other$85,950Education$72,100Arts & Culture$16,800Housing & Shelter$16,100Youth Development$7,500Human Services$5,900

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $36,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $30,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $16,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBELOIT COLLEGE: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $10,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC: $8,100 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNAPLES ART ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $2,025 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE US: $2,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited American Patriots Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS UNION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $100 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.

  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds BELOIT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds NAPLES ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
  • Who funds KAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE US ↗
  • Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds TAX FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Farrell Family FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Farrell Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Donna L Elliott Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donna L Elliott Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Donna L Elliott Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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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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