· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FOUNDERS HALL FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| RIDGEFIELD VETERANS MEMORIAL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION | $750 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
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…
How this is measured
8 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.
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 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 ↗
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: Robert and Elizabeth Ellis Family Foundation · The Barker Welfare Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elizabeth Murray Ellis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth Murray Ellis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
- Rvnahealth Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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