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Elias Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$546kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kPhilanthropy$58kHuman Services$54kRecreation & Sports$50kCrime & Legal$50kEducation$12kReligion$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$125,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center$125,000
NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY$83,333
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 (FY21–23, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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%GIRLS WHO CODE: $25k → 17%TGTHR: $4k → 12%GIRLS WHO CODE: $25k → 17%THERE WITH CARE: $4k → 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.
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.
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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 45% of Elias Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 58% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 42%.

Elias Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$433k · 3 repeat orgs$396k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
18

Total granted

$433k
$271k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+4%

Still filing today

100%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • NB
    NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $333k · revenue +12%
  • CP
    CHILD'S PLAY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue -5%
  • GIRLS WHO CODE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • BR
    BOSTON RESILIENCY FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -33%
  • MC
    MA COVID-19 RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
5
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
6
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
7
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
8
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
9
Children's Medical Center Corporation

To operate exclusively for the benefit of The Children's Hospital Corporation and its affiliated organizations in the conduct of their charitable, educational and scientific functions.

Health
10
Westminster Canterbury Child Care

As a faith-based charitable organization, we will provide services, specific to need, in a compassionate, professional, holistic manner, through an inspiring environment and dynamic leadership for our employees and others we serve.

Human Services
11
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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12
Pediatric Physician Services Inc

The corporation is organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and to provide healthcare services of pediatric specialty physicians and other personnel to the patients of johns hopkins all children's hospital and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc; the most unlike its peers is Association for the Recovery of Children. 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

15 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. 15 of the 23 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $333,333 · OtherNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INCThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: $125,000 · OtherThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterBOSTON RESILIENCY FUND: $50,000 · OtherBOSTON RESILIENCY FUNDMA COVID-19 RELIEF FUND: $50,000 · OtherMA COVID-19 RELIEF FUND+6 more: $25,500 · OtherCHILD'S PLAY: $50,000 · HealthM D ANDERSON SERVICES CORPORATION: $20,000 · HealthFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $57,665 · Community ImprovementWEST ROXBURY MAIN STREETS INC: $2,500 · Community ImprovementGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHERE WITH CARE: $4,000 · Human ServicesATTENTION INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentBOULDER CLIMBING COMMUNITY: $2,000 · EnvironmentASSOCIATION FOR THE RECOVERY OF CHILDREN: $50,000 · Crime & LegalTrustees of Tufts College: $10,000 · EducationJOHN D LANGLEY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$583,833Health$70,000Community Improvement$60,165Human Services$58,000Environment$52,000Crime & Legal$50,000Education$12,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

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 budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $333,333 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $57,665 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover 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 Elias Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elias Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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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.

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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