Virginia · Private foundation
Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $400k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 74
- Grants FY2025
- 61
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 61 to 73
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 73 | $398k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 61 | $399k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 71 | $395k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 69 | $400k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $397k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 73 | $7.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts Alive Inc | $120,000 | 6 | 16% |
| Historical Society of West Point Inc | $97,740 | 6 | 25% |
| Central King & Queen Vol Fire Dept | $74,000 | 4 | 55% |
| Bay Aging | $63,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Northern Neck-Middlesex Free Health Clinic Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Andrew's School | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| International Women's Fishing Assoc Scholarship Fund C/O Joan Vernon | $45,500 | 3 | 17% |
| Walkerton Community Fire Association Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Virginia Institute of Marine Science Fdn | $43,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · J Edwin Treakle Foundation Inc · Townebank Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Pga Tour Charities Inc · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Rouse-Bottom Foundation · The Roller-Bottimore Foundation
How this is measured
About Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation
- How much does Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation give?
- Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation reported 74 grants totaling $400,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 61 and 73 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (72%), Education (6%), Health (5%).
- Who are Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Arts Alive Inc ($120k), Historical Society of West Point Inc ($98k), Central King & Queen Vol Fire Dept ($74k).
- Does Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, The Community Foundation Inc, The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation.
- Where is Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation based?
- Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation is based in VA.
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