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Elias 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.

$208k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$125,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$125,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 10
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$3.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Elias Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentHealthCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$208k50%
FY20242$113k50%
FY20233$113k0%
FY202210$153k90%
FY20217$133k100%
FY20204$111kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$546kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kPhilanthropy$58kHuman Services$54kRecreation & Sports$50kCrime & Legal$50kEducation$12kReligion$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Elias Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Brain Tumor Society Inc$333,33351%
Friends of the Public Garden Inc$50,00011%
Child's Play$50,00021%
Girls Who Code Inc$50,00020%
Association for the Recovery of Children$50,00017%
M D Anderson Services Corporation$20,00010%
Trustees of Tufts College$10,00010%
Ecdc Nursery School of Walpole Inc$5,00013%
St Mary Parish$4,0001n/a
There With Care$4,00010%
Attention Inc$4,00010%
West Roxbury Main Streets Inc$2,50013%
John D Langley Foundation$2,00013%
Boulder Climbing Community$2,00010%
Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc$1,00010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($242k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Brain Tumor Society Inc: $333,333 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of the Public Garden Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChild's Play: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGirls Who Code Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAssociation for the Recovery of Children: $50,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetM D Anderson Services Corporation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEcdc Nursery School of Walpole Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetThere With Care: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAttention Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWest Roxbury Main Streets Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetJohn D Langley Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBoulder Climbing Community: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetProject Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 14.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

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How do I get to Elias Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Elias Family Foundation 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.

About Elias Family Foundation

How much does Elias Family Foundation give?
Elias Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $208,333 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Elias Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (62%), Public Safety & Disaster (11%), Philanthropy (7%).
Who are Elias Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: National Brain Tumor Society Inc ($333k), Friends of the Public Garden Inc ($50k), Child's Play ($50k).
Does Elias Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Elias Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Elias Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Elias Family Foundation based?
Elias Family Foundation is based in NH.

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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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