· Private foundation
Elizabeth Murray Ellis Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Elizabeth Murray Ellis Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Elizabeth Murray Ellis Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $61k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD | $30,000 |
| VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF RIDGEFIELD INC | $10,000 |
| KIDS IN CRISIS INC | $10,000 |
| RIDGEFIELD VETERANS MEMORIAL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| FOUNDERS HALL FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION | $750 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To receive and administer grants, gifts, donations and bequests in a manner designed to promote the activities of richfield living and ridgecrest at richfield.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
Rivermead is a progressive not-for-profit continuing care retirement community that advocates for an enriched lifestyle with cultural and educational opportunities. continued on schedule "o".we continuously strive to provide high-quality,…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Tiaa charitable is formed to encourage philanthropy and charitable giving by receiving gifts of money or property, investing and reinvesting the same, providing support and assistance to encourage the making of charitable contributions,…
The rhode island foundation mobilizes generosity and motivates change that makes a difference
Establish a sustainable dynamic community of seniors that honors both mutual support and independence and addresses the health and wellness of each resident.
Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
Charitable trust organized to facilitate charitable giving by 1) accepting marketable securities, liquidating the asset and dispensing the proceeds to various designated charities, and 2) sponsoring and administering donor advised funds.
Ridgefield library is a public library, incorporated in 1901 as a private 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and governed by a sixteen member board of directors. the library serves as a cultural and intellectual center and a community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rvnahealth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boys & Girls Club of Ridgefield. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD ↗
- Who funds RVNAHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds RIDGEFIELD VETERANS' MEMORIAL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Founders Hall Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Robert and Elizabeth Ellis Family Foundation · The Barker Welfare Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Elizabeth Murray Ellis Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Rvnahealth Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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