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Elanco Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$372k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.5MPhilanthropy$290kPublic Safety & Disaster$150kEnvironment$150kAnimals$105k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $112k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$19,023
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FUNDACION SOLIDARIDAD LATINOAMERICANA$150,000
THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION$100,000
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION$43,608
UNITED KINGDOM ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION$34,208
HAUS DES STIFTENS GGMBH$19,023
PET PARTNERS$15,000
CHARITABLE GIVING$5,913
CANADIAN GIVING FOUNDATION$2,670
AUSTRALIAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION$2,011
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.

US giving: 52% of grant dollars ($1.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 48% that went abroad ($1.0M) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION: $51k → 10%AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION: $42k → 12%FOOD BANK OF IOWA: $30k → 12%HARVESTERS COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $30k → 15%E4E RELIEF: $150k → 10%HANCOCK COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $30k → 5%HUMANE SOCIETY OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $50k → 8%GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA: $400k → 16%TERRE HAUTE CATHOLIC CHARITIES FOOD BANK: $30k → 19%PET PARTNERS: $15k → 9%BANFIELD FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%GREATER WATERVILLE AREA FOOD BANK: $30k → 12%AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION: $44k → 10%AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION: $31k → 12%INDY HUNGER NETWORK: $20k → 16%PET PARTNERS: $15k → 9%AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION: $24k → 12%THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $100k → 16%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

ME
WA
IA
IN
MO
DE
NC
FL

Beyond the US: 48% of all-years giving ($1.0M)

6 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Brazil$450k · 3 grants
United Kingdom$283k · 10 grants
Belgium$250k · 2 grants
Germany$44k · 4 grants
Canada$7k · 5 grants
Australia$7k · 5 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 17% of Elanco Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Elanco Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 48% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 8 repeat orgs$795k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$1.1M
$795k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-52%
+23%

Still filing today

13%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • FS
    FUNDACION SOLIDARIDAD LATINOAMERICANA
    3× · 2021–2024 · $450k
  • UK
    UNITED KINGDOM ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $268k
  • EF
    EUROPEAN FOOD BANKS FEDERATION
    2× · 2020–2022 · $250k

Funded once

  • GF
    GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +11%
  • ER
    E4E RELIEF LLCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +74%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF JOHNSON COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +59%
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
Feeding Indiana's Hungry Inc

By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.

Human Services
2
Hoosier Hills Food Bank Inc

Hoosier hills food bank collects, stores, and distributes nutritious food products to non-profit organizations, which provide free feeding programs that serve both ill and needy families and individuals in monroe, martin, owen, orange,…

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Bank of Northwest Indiana Inc

To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.

Food & Nutrition
4
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
5
Tri-State Food Bank

Tri-state food bank, inc solicits, warehouses, and disburses donated and purchased food products to other not-for-profit entities in indiana, illinois, and kentucky.

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6
Feeding Illinois

Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

Food & Nutrition
7
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
8
Interchurch Food Pantry of Johnson County

The interchurch food pantry works to alleviate hunger in johnson county. there are two primary program services, food distribution and food rescue.

Human Services
9
Food Bank for the Heartland

To eliminate hunger in the heartland by ensuring consistent access to healthy foods through community partnerships.

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10
Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank

Our mission is to feed the hungry in baton rouge and the surrounding parishes by providing food and educational outreach through faith-based and other community partners.

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11
Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc

Golden harvest food bank, inc.'s mission is "feeding lives together."

Food & Nutrition
12
Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank

To enable other community organizations to end hunger. we strive to maximize community resources by effectively obtaining and distributing food through a food collection and distribution system.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harvesters - the Community Food Network; the most unlike its peers is Hancock County Food Pantry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FUNDACION SOLIDARIDAD LATINOAMERICANA: $450,000 · OtherFUNDACION SOLIDARIDAD LATINOAMERICANAGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $400,000 · OtherGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INCUNITED KINGDOM ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION: $268,084 · OtherUNITED KINGDOM ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATIONEUROPEAN FOOD BANKS FEDERATION: $250,000 · OtherEUROPEAN FOOD BANKS FEDERATIONHUMANE SOCIETY OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $50,000 · Other+4 more: $73,844 · OtherAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $190,405 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN O…HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $30,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $30,000 · Food & NutritionHANCOCK COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionTerre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank Inc: $30,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER WATERVILLE AREA FOOD BANK D/B/A WATERVILLE FOOD BANK: $30,000 · Food & NutritionINDY HUNGER NETWORK INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionE4E RELIEF LLC: $150,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementPET PARTNERS: $30,000 · AnimalsBANFIELD FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Animals
Other$1,491,928Philanthropy$190,405Food & Nutrition$170,000Public Safety & Disaster$150,000Community Improvement$100,000Animals$55,000

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 budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $400,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $190,405 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetE4E RELIEF LLC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHANCOCK COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPET PARTNERS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTerre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGREATER WATERVILLE AREA FOOD BANK D/B/A WATERVILLE FOOD BANK: $30,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetBANFIELD FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINDY HUNGER NETWORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

Lilly Endowment IncIN13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%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
    1get no government money at all
    7report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Elanco Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Elanco 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.

    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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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