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Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$400k
Granted FY2025still arriving
74
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$7.0MEducation$584kHealth$523kArts & Culture$338kPublic Safety & Disaster$317kHuman Services$257kAnimals$150kFood & Nutrition$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k59 grants · $189k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $211k
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARGARET'S SCHOOL$25,000
MELVIN ROSSON VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 8356$20,000
ARTS ALIVE INC$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND$15,000
WEST POINT VOLUNTER FIRE DEPT & RESCUE SQUAD$15,000
THE NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$15,000
GREATER WEST POINT FAMILY YMCA$15,000
JAMESTOWN YORKTOWN FOUNDATION$11,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS FOR CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES$10,000
ST ANDREWS SCHOOL$10,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$10,000
SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION$10,000
NORTHERN NECK-MIDDLESEX FREE HEALTH CLINIC$10,000
DIRECT RELIEF FOR HURRICANE MELISSA$10,000
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 (FY20–25, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%PROCLAIMING GRACE OUTREACH: $5k → 5%PROCLAIMING GRACE OUTREACH: $5k → 5%PROCLAIMING GRACE OUTREACH: $5k → 5%PROCLAIMING GRACE OUTREACH: $5k → 5%PROCLAIMING GRACE OUTREACH: $5k → 5%PROCLAIMING GRACE OUTREACH: $5k → 5%BAY AGING: $15k → 12%BAY AGING: $15k → 12%BAY AGING: $15k → 12%BAY AGING: $15k → 12%BRIDGES OF CHANGE: $5k → 5%BRIDGES OF CHANGE: $5k → 5%BRIDGES OF CHANGE: $5k → 5%BRIDGES OF CHANGE: $5k → 5%BRIDGES OF CHANGE: $5k → 5%BAY AGING: $3k → 12%BRIDGES OF CHANGE: $5k → 5%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
MS
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 79 repeat orgs$7.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -37% for those funded once.

79 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
23

Total granted

$2.6M
$7.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
-37%

Still filing today

68%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
HealthArts & CultureEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • AA
    ARTS ALIVE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +17%
  • HS
    Historical Society of West Point Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $98k · revenue +2% · 25% of their budget
  • BA
    BAY AGING
    5× · 2020–2025 · $63k · revenue +297%

Funded once

  • DQ
    DAF - QUERCUS CHARITABLE FUND ( SCHWAB CHARITABLE)
    one grant, 2020 · $3.4M
  • DN
    DAF - NEW TRINITY CHARITABLE FUND ( SCHWAB CHARITABLE)
    one grant, 2020 · $3.4M
  • SC
    SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND ANNE O LOEBS DAF
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
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
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
2
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
3
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
4
Mcv Associated Physicians

The mission of the organization is to provide physicians and other healthcare professionals to support the needs of the community, as well as the academic mission of the vcu school of medicine.

Health
5
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
6
Medical College of Va Foundation

To support and foster vcu health and vcu health sciences through philanthropy, stewardship, innovation, communication, and collaboration.

Education
7
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
8
Dentistry Vcu

Delivery of oral healthcare. the corporation operates principally for the benefit of the school of dentistry of vcu by supporting the education, research, service and care mission of vcu.

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9
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
10
William & Mary Foundation

The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…

Education
11
Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc

The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.

Health
12
Virginia Association of Museums

The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 119 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/67
Grantees still filing
39/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DAF - QUERCUS CHARITABLE FUND ( SCHWAB CHARITABLE): $3,429,795 · OtherDAF - QUERCUS CHARITABLE FUND ( SCHWAB CHARITABLE)DAF - NEW TRINITY CHARITABLE FUND ( SCHWAB CHARITABLE): $3,429,795 · OtherDAF - NEW TRINITY CHARITABLE FUND ( SCHWAB CHARITABLE)+72 more: $1,734,117 · Other+72 moreARTS ALIVE INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureHistorical Society of West Point Inc: $97,740 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $30,048 · Arts & CultureTHE NORTHERN NECK-MIDDLESEX FREE HEALTH CLINIC INC: $60,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $60,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $30,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $30,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF DARE: $30,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $30,000 · HealthMercy Medical Angels: $27,000 · HealthGLOUCESTER MATHEWS CARE CLINIC: $25,500 · Health+3 more: $16,595 · HealthSt Andrew's School: $60,000 · EducationVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN: $43,000 · EducationST MARGARET'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationVIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationPARENT-CHILD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $13,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $7,000 · EducationBAY AGING: $63,000 · Human ServicesPROCLAIMING GRACE OUTREACH: $30,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGES OF CHANGE: $28,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION SHOESTRING INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesCIRCLES RVA INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesCENTRAL KING & QUEEN VOL FIRE DEPT: $74,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWALKERTON COMMUNITY FIRE ASSOCIATION INC: $45,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFAIRFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBOYKIN SPANIEL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · AnimalsOUTER BANKS SPCA INC: $26,000 · AnimalsSPAY TODAY INC: $25,000 · AnimalsTHE BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · AnimalsINDIAN RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,000 · AnimalsBOYKIN SPANIEL RESCUE INC: $6,000 · AnimalsCASTING FOR CATS INC: $4,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · Animals
Other$8,593,707Arts & Culture$316,788Health$309,095Education$198,000Human Services$149,500Public Safety & Disaster$124,000Animals$113,000

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 budgetARTS ALIVE INC: $120,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetHistorical Society of West Point Inc: $97,740 over 6y, 25% of budgetCENTRAL KING & QUEEN VOL FIRE DEPT: $74,000 over 4y, 55% of budgetBAY AGING: $63,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORTHERN NECK-MIDDLESEX FREE HEALTH CLINIC INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSt Andrew's School: $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FISHING ASSOC SCHOLARSHIP FUND C/O JOAN VERNON: $45,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetWALKERTON COMMUNITY FIRE ASSOCIATION INC: $45,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN: $43,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST MARGARET'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetTHE CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $35,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FISHING ASSOC: $35,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROCLAIMING GRACE OUTREACH: $30,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYKIN SPANIEL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF DARE: $30,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBEACH FOOD PANTRY INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MENOKIN FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGES OF CHANGE: $28,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetMercy Medical Angels: $27,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOUTER BANKS SPCA INC: $26,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGLOUCESTER MATHEWS CARE CLINIC: $25,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSPAY TODAY INC: $25,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetFeeding America: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJacob's Ladder Inc: $24,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVERSABILITY RESOURCES INC: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SHOESTRING INC: $16,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWINGS OF HOPE: $15,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPARENT-CHILD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $13,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCIRCLES RVA INC: $12,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVirginia Commonwealth Universi: $10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Historic Christ Church Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 1.9% 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.

  • Who funds ARTS ALIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Historical Society of West Point Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL KING & QUEEN VOL FIRE DEPT ↗
  • Who funds BAY AGING ↗
  • Who funds THE NORTHERN NECK-MIDDLESEX FREE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FISHING ASSOC SCHOLARSHIP FUND C/O JOAN VERNON ↗
  • Who funds WALKERTON COMMUNITY FIRE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARGARET'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FISHING ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROCLAIMING GRACE OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds REMOTE AREA MEDICAL ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BOYKIN SPANIEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF DARE ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BEACH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗

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.

Dominion Energy Chari…The Community Foundat…The Mary Morton Parso…Robert G Cabell III a…J Edwin Treakle Found…Townebank FoundationHerndon FoundationRichard S Reynolds Fo…Pga Tour Charities IncHampton Roads Communi…Rouse-Bottom Foundati…The Roller-Bottimore …
Dominion Energy Charitable FoundationVA34.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • International Game Fish Association Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
21report 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.

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 119 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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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home