· Private foundation
Elias Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $679k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $293k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESPAC FOUNDATION | $105,000 |
| WESTCHESTER CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION | $80,000 |
| CHILDREN'S VILLAGE | $58,085 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| JUST LEADERSHIP USA | $43,660 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| NEIGHBORS LINK | $34,000 |
| SEED COMMONS (COOP HUDSON VALLEY) | $30,000 |
| SOUTHERN MAINE WORKERS' CENTER | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $826k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
83 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $326k · revenue +55%
- WCWESTCHESTER CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $318k · revenue +65%
- WFWESPAC FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $277k · revenue +854%
Funded once
- RURUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $106k
- RRREVITALIZING REAL ESTATE PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $100k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEEone grant, 2023 · $79k
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.
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.
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Takeroot justice provides legal, participatory research and policy support to strengthen the work of grassroots and community-based groups in new york city to dismantle racial, economic and social oppression.
Nylpi's mission is to advance equality and civil rights, with a focus on health justice, disability rights and environmental justice, through the power of community lawyering and partnerships with the private bar.
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
The NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives is dedicated to sharing and cultivating the educational, financial, and technical resources of its members and supporting the growth of worker cooperatives for social and economic justice. We offer…
To defend and promote civil rights and civil liberties.
We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…
A grassroots membership-based organization building power for low and moderate-income communities in new york state.
Ccr is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the united states constitution the universal declaration of human rights. ccr stands with social justice movements…
We join our clients in the struggle to organize, assert their rights and protect their homes. we work to ensure that community voices are centered in the decisions that impact their lives and neighborhoods.
Equity advocates builds the capacity of nonprofit organizations to address the underlying causes of food inequity through policy and systems change. we partner with new york-based organizations working to alleviate hunger and poverty,…
How this is measured
65 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. 65 of the 177 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESPAC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS LINK CORP ↗
- Who funds JUSTLEADERSHIPUSA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MAINE WORKERS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Community Voices Heard Inc ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Policy Perspective ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Novo Foundation · Surdna Foundation Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · The New York Community Trust · North Star Fund Inc · Solidaire Network Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · NEO Philanthropy Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elias Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elias Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- The Education & Training Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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