· Private foundation
Elkay Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA | $12,000 |
| American Heart Association | $10,000 |
| Ronald McD House | $7,500 |
| Gathering of Southeast Wisconsin Inc | $3,068 |
| South Mecklenburg Presbyterian Church | $2,639 |
| Rock Church Academy | $1,055 |
| Capital Area food bank | $1,000 |
| The Guest House of Milwaukee Inc | $1,000 |
| Wreaths Across America | $1,000 |
| St John's Evangelist School | $569 |
| Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc | $569 |
| First United Methodist Church | $569 |
| Colts Rehab Rescue | $569 |
| St Peter's Lutheran Church & School | $568 |
| Fuquay-Varina United Methodist Church | $568 |
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 (FY21–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SASCHOLARSHIP AMERICA3× · 2021–2024 · $117k
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $17k · revenue +16%
- LCLENA COMMUNITY TRUST FUND INC2× · 2022–2023 · $1k · revenue -21%
Funded once
- EEmployeesone grant, 2019 · $118k
- VOVarious organizationsone grant, 2020 · $44k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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.
Children's services
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.
The organization seeks to provide residential services for disabled adults and children, as well as behavioral health, regular work and supported employment services for these disabled individuals. additionally, developmental training and…
Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater cincinnati offers a community of compassion, support and the comforts of home to families with critically ill children, steps away from the medical care they need.
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive program of critical human services.
Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 172 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.
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 Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GATHERING OF SOUTHEAST WI INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC ↗
- Who funds PEMBROKE RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK CHURCH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds LENA COMMUNITY TRUST FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OAK MONTESSORI SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds The Guest House of Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
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: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Gardner Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Texas Instruments Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elkay Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elkay Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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