How much does Elf Foundation give?

Elf Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $187,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Elf Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (83%), Education (10%), Animals (2%).

Who are Elf Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sisters of Charity Hospital Foundation ($170k), Roswell Park Alliance Foundation ($155k), University of Rochester ($121k).

Does Elf Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Elf Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Elf Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc, Summers Foundation Inc.

Foundation Dossiers

New York · Private foundation

Elf Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$187k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 6
Grants FY2025: 8
Organizations funded FY2024: 63%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $70,000
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 12; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $2.6M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Elf Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	6	$187k	17%
FY2024	8	$157k	63%
FY2023	4	$153k	75%
FY2022	11	$150k	55%
FY2021	11	$167k	55%
FY2020	12	$112k	50%
FY2019	6	$124k	17%
FY2018	11	$95k	45%

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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 2025.

Health$1.0MEducation$125kAnimals$31kHuman Services$12kFood & Nutrition$11kPhilanthropy$11kReligion$6kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sisters of Charity Hospital Foundation	$170,000	2	10%
Roswell Park Alliance Foundation	$155,000	2	0%
University of Rochester	$121,000	4	0%
Mercy Flight Central Inc	$44,000	4	0%
Erie County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals	$30,500	2	0%
The Summit Center Inc	$25,000	2	0%
Hugs Foundation Inc	$15,000	3	1%
F F Thompson Hospital Foundation Inc	$12,000	2	0%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$12,000	3	0%
Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc	$7,000	2	0%

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All grantees of Elf Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sisters of Charity Hospital Foundation	$170,000	2	10%
Roswell Park Alliance Foundation	$155,000	2	0%
University of Rochester	$121,000	4	0%
Mercy Flight Central Inc	$44,000	4	0%
Erie County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals	$30,500	2	0%
The Summit Center Inc	$25,000	2	0%
Hugs Foundation Inc	$15,000	3	1%
F F Thompson Hospital Foundation Inc	$12,000	2	0%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$12,000	3	0%
Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc	$7,000	2	0%
Wny Women's Foundation Inc	$6,000	2	1%
Daystar for Medically Fragile Children D/B/A Daystar Kids	$3,000	1	0%
City Mission Society Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Feedmore Wny Foundation Inc	$2,000	2	0%
Project Motherpath Inc	$1,500	1	2%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc	$1,000	1	0%
American Heart Association Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Ontario County Historical Society	$1,000	2	0%
Americares Foundation Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Rochester School of the Holy Childhood I	$1,000	1	0%
Willow Domestic Violence Center of Greater Rochester Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
Lifespan of Greater Rochester Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Aldersgate United Methodist Church	$1,000	1	n/a
Forest Lawn Heritage Foundation Inc	$1,000	1	1%
The Salvation Army	$1,000	1	n/a
County of Monroe	$1,000	1	n/a
Girls on the Run of Buffalo Inc	$500	1	0%
Williamsville Music Boosters Inc	$500	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($625k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Elf Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Rochester Area Community FoundationNY24.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Summers Foundation Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · The Riedman Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Esl Charitable Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Wegman Family Charitable 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.

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About Elf Foundation

How much does Elf Foundation give?: Elf Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $187,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Elf Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (83%), Education (10%), Animals (2%).
Who are Elf Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sisters of Charity Hospital Foundation ($170k), Roswell Park Alliance Foundation ($155k), University of Rochester ($121k).
Does Elf Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Elf Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Elf Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc, Summers Foundation Inc.
Where is Elf Foundation based?: Elf Foundation is based in NY.