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Elisha-Bolton Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$296k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
24
Organizations funded FY2023
4%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$65,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 35
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$4.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 4% of the organizations Elisha-Bolton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterPublic BenefitOther
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
FY2024still arriving22$296k0%
FY202324$292k4%
FY202225$260k0%
FY202130$284k30%
FY202022$227k14%
FY201925$222k28%
FY201834$269k18%
FY201735$240kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$587kArts & Culture$434kEnvironment$375kHealth$118kHousing & Shelter$95kPublic Safety & Disaster$76kReligion$65kPhilanthropy$63kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 42 grantees
All grantees of Elisha-Bolton Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Millbrook School$302,50080%
Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc$236,25080%
North Bennet Street School$130,00080%
Amargosa Land Trust$67,500813%
Death Valley Conservancy$60,00081%
Bryn Mawr College$52,50080%
Friends of Red Rock Canyon$45,00067%
Las Vegas Rescue Mission$45,00050%
Death Valley Natural History Association$45,00051%
The Garden Conservancy Inc$45,00060%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$40,50040%
The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art Inc$40,00040%
Lakeview Cemetery Foundation$35,00071%
American Friends of Attingham Inc$32,00081%
The Cupcake Girls$30,00041%
Global Empowerment Mission Inc$30,00020%
Southern Nevada Bicycle Coalition$30,0003n/a
Thomasville-Thomas County Humane Society Inc$25,00022%
Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc$22,50080%
Thomas County Historical Society Inc$15,25081%
Pebble Hill Foundation Inc$15,00030%
Garrison Forest School Inc$15,00020%
New England Conservatory of Music$13,00020%
Ravi Zacharias International Ministries$10,0002n/a
Street Teens$10,00024%
The Just One Project$10,00020%
Dogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives$8,00020%
Sky's the Limit Fund$8,00020%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$7,50020%
Insight for Living$6,50020%
In Touch Ministries Inc$5,50020%
Jack Van Impe Ministries$5,50020%
Challenged Athletes Inc$5,00010%
Three Square$5,00010%
Special Operations Warrior Foundation$5,00010%
Yosemite Foundation$5,00010%
East Coast Assistance Dogs Inc$5,00010%
National Center for Victims of Crime Inc$5,00010%
The Urban Alternative$4,00020%
The Musical Arts Association$4,00010%
Harvest Ministries Inc$3,0001n/a
Songtimeinc$2,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($603k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Elisha-Bolton Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMillbrook School: $302,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThomas Jefferson Foundation Inc: $236,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Bennet Street School: $130,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAmargosa Land Trust: $67,500 over 8y, 13% of budgetDeath Valley Conservancy: $60,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetBryn Mawr College: $52,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Red Rock Canyon: $45,000 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetLas Vegas Rescue Mission: $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDeath Valley Natural History Association: $45,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetThe Garden Conservancy Inc: $45,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $40,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Institute of Classical Architecture and Art Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLakeview Cemetery Foundation: $35,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Friends of Attingham Inc: $32,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetThe Cupcake Girls: $30,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGlobal Empowerment Mission Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThomasville-Thomas County Humane Society Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDutchess Land Conservancy Inc: $22,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThomas County Historical Society Inc: $15,250 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetPebble Hill Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGarrison Forest School Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew England Conservatory of Music: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStreet Teens: $10,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetThe Just One Project: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSky's the Limit Fund: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInsight for Living: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIn Touch Ministries Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJack Van Impe Ministries: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChallenged Athletes Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThree Square: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Operations Warrior Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYosemite Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast Coast Assistance Dogs Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Center for Victims of Crime Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Urban Alternative: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSongtimeinc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 39.

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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.

Parker Poe Charitable TrustGA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Parker Poe Charitable Trust · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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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Find your warmest path to Elisha-Bolton 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 Elisha-Bolton Foundation

How much does Elisha-Bolton Foundation give?
Elisha-Bolton Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $296,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Elisha-Bolton Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Arts & Culture (20%), Environment (18%).
Who are Elisha-Bolton Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Millbrook School ($303k), Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc ($236k), North Bennet Street School ($130k).
Does Elisha-Bolton Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Elisha-Bolton Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Elisha-Bolton Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Parker Poe Charitable Trust, Mgm Resorts Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Elisha-Bolton Foundation based?
Elisha-Bolton Foundation is based in OH.

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 62 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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