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Elea Institute

Elea Institute leads national efforts to expand access to high-quality hospice and palliative care.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$628k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$2.2M
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $73k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $203k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$146,250
Median grant
2
States reached
$134M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Joliet Area Community Hospice dba$627,500
The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care$418,000
National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice In$289,750
Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI)$146,250
Illinois Hospice & Palliative Care Organization$57,000
Loyola University Medical Center$47,500
Serenity Hospice and Home Foundation$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Joliet Area Community Hospice dba: $628k → 7%National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice In: $290k → 14%Joliet Area Community Hospice dba: $190k → 7%Illinois Hospice & Palliative Care Organization: $57k → 7%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 4 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$1.2M
$241k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
-4%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $765k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • JA
    Joliet Area Community Hospice Corp
    2× · 2023–2024 · $818k · revenue +10%
  • HC
    HOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUTE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $218k · revenue +110%
  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $143k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • MH
    MIDWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $95k · revenue -18%
  • TH
    The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation)graduated
    one grant, 2023 · $74k · revenue +67%
  • NI
    NORTHERN ILLINOIS HOSPICE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $57k · revenue -13%
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
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
2
Center for Hospice Care Southeast Connecticut Inc

Provide Health and Supportive Services to terminally ill individuals at their home or in a medical facility in Southeastern Connecticut.

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3
Hospice of Southern Illinois Inc

Care to terminal patients/families

Human Services
4
The Hospice and Palliative Care Network of Maryland Inc

To promote hospice and palliative care in all settings and advocate for quality end of life care.

—
5
HospiceCare in the Berkshires Inc

Organized to provide hospice and palliative care services to residents of the local Berkshire County community.

Human Services
6
Lifecare Hospice

The mission of hospice is to provide medical care, nursing care, pain relief, and emotional and spiritual support services to terminally ill patients and their families.

—
7
Iowa City Hospice Inc

To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.

Human Services
8
Hospice of Northwest Ohio

Hospice of northwest ohio provides specialized medical emotional and spiritual care to people of all ages - and their families - living with any end-stage illness in northwest ohio and southeast michigan

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9
Hope Hospice & Palliative Care Inc

To provide hospice care for persons at the end of life so that they may live as fully and comfortably as possible and to offer continuing support to the bereaved.

Human Services
10
Hospicare & Palliative Care Services of Tompkins County Inc

To bring medical expertise and compassionate, respectful, care to people and their loved ones at any stage of a life - threatening illness, and to provide information and education about advanced illness, dying, and bereavement to the…

—
11
Hospice and Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley Inc

To provide excellence in serious illness and end-of-life care and bereavement services; as well as support and education for patients, families, and caregivers.

Human Services
12
Hospice of Holland Inc

The mission of hospice of holland is to provide the most compassionate and highest quality end-of-life care through physical, emotional, and spiritual support.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rest Haven Illiana Christian Convalescent Home; the most unlike its peers is Coalition to Transform Advanced Car. 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

11 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Joliet Area Community Hospice Corp: $817,500 · Human ServicesJoliet Area Community Hospice CorpNATIONAL HOSPICE WORK GROUP INC: $289,750 · Human ServicesNATIONAL HOSPICE WORK GROUP INCIllinois Hospice & Palliative Care: $57,000 · Human ServicesCoalition To Transform Advanced Car: $418,000 · HealthCoalition To Transform Advanced CarHOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUTE: $217,500 · HealthHOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUTELOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $142,500 · HealthLOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERNORTHERN ILLINOIS HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $57,000 · HealthNORTHERN ILLINOIS HOSPICE FOUNDATIONSERENITY HOSPICE AND HOME FOUND: $50,000 · HealthSERENITY HOSPICE AND HOME FOUND+1 more: $15,000 · HealthMIDWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $95,000 · PhilanthropyThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $74,480 · Religion
Human Services$1,164,250Health$900,000Philanthropy$95,000Religion$74,480

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 budgetJoliet Area Community Hospice Corp: $817,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCoalition To Transform Advanced Car: $418,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetNATIONAL HOSPICE WORK GROUP INC: $289,750 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetHOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUTE: $217,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $142,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $74,480 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetIllinois Hospice & Palliative Care: $57,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $57,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSERENITY HOSPICE AND HOME FOUND: $50,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetREST HAVEN ILLIANA CHRISTIAN CONVALESCENT HOME: $15,000 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Elea Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elea Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Elea Institute?

    Find your warmest path to Elea Institute 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 11 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 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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