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Elkes Foundation III

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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
80
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$964kEducation$889kYouth Development$714kEnvironment$522kHuman Services$427kRecreation & Sports$335kFood & Nutrition$263kHealth$257kOther$0
02FY2024 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k43 grants · $139k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $697k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
$7,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIVERFEST FPS INC$80,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
GRASSROOTS SOCCER$55,000
TEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION$43,150
JAMESON HUMANE$40,500
HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC$35,100
JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER$35,000
READ TO GROW$30,000
UKRAINIAN RESCUE HOME$30,000
BRONX LACROSSE$30,000
WRITING DOWNTOWN$30,000
PAJAMA PROGRAM$30,000
BERNIE'S BOOK BANK$30,000
NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE$25,000
FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES$25,000
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 (FY19–24, $734k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%WHEELING FORWARD: $3k → 20%SPARE FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%WRITING DOWNTOWN: $35k → 10%WRITING DOWNTOWN: $40k → 13%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $5k → 8%WRITING DOWNTOWN: $30k → 13%GIVE US THE FLOOR: $7k → 10%CENTER FOR SAFETY AND CHANGE: $10k → 14%BOOK FAIRIES: $10k → 6%BOOK FAIRIES: $10k → 6%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $30k → 17%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $30k → 17%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $20k → 17%NEIGHBORS LINK: $3k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $2k → 9%WESTCHESTER BLUE FOUNDATION: $150 → 9%OSSINING CHILDRENS CENTER: $3k → 9%OSSINING CHILDRENS CENTER: $3k → 9%OSSINING CHILDRENS CENTER: $1k → 9%YAMBA MALAWI: $1k → 17%FOR ALL SEASONS: $3k → 9%FOR ALL SEASONS: $3k → 9%FOR ALL SEASONS: $3k → 9%FOR ALL SEASONS: $3k → 9%FOR ALL SEASONS: $3k → 9%FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES: $100k → 17%FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES: $100k → 17%FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES: $100k → 17%FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES: $100k → 17%FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES: $50k → 17%FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES: $25k → 17%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

VT
NH
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
WY
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 89 repeat orgs$886k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

89 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
93

Total granted

$4.7M
$650k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+11%

Still filing today

65%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FY
    FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $475k · revenue +49%
  • TJ
    THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $198k · revenue +53%
  • PI
    PARENTCHILD INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • KB
    KING BAUDOUN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • MH
    MARIN HEALTH FOUNDATIOBN
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • RT
    READER TO READER
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
5
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
9
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parentchild Inc; the most unlike its peers is Charlies Acres. 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

124 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. 124 of the 215 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
119/124
Grantees still filing
83/124
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $197,500 · OtherTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INCREACH OUT READ OF GREATER NEW YORK: $190,000 · OtherREACH OUT READ OF GREATER NEW YORKGRINNELL COLLEGE: $175,000 · OtherGRINNELL COLLEGEPARENTCHILD INC: $160,000 · OtherPARENTCHILD INCMASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION: $156,000 · OtherTEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION INC: $144,400 · Other+132 more: $1,932,439 · Other+132 moreFRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC: $475,000 · Human ServicesFRESH YOUTH INI…Writing Downtown Inc: $105,000 · Human ServicesWriting Downtow…BEYOND BEDTIME INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesBEYOND BEDTIME …+12 more: $84,500 · Human Services+12 moreNEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureNEW LONDON …JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC: $102,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB BURNS…LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CEN…Sundance Institute: $70,210 · Arts & CultureSundance In…HISTORIC HUDSON VALLEY: $55,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC HU…ALL STARS PROJECT INC: $23,000 · Arts & CultureAndover House Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $65,000 · Arts & Culture+10 moreREAD TO GROW INC: $100,000 · EducationREAD TO GRO…President and Fellows of Middlebury College: $70,000 · EducationPresident a…THE LONG NOW FOUNDATION: $52,180 · EducationTHE LONG NO…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $50,000 · EducationThe New Yor…HACKS HACKERS: $45,000 · EducationHACKS HACKE…BookSpring: $40,000 · EducationBookSpringVanderbilt University: $30,000 · EducationVanderbilt …KIDS NEED TO READ: $30,000 · EducationKIDS NEED T…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVER…LINK TO LIBRARIES INC: $20,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC: $20,000 · EducationLITERACY INC: $20,000 · EducationCREATIVE COMMONS CORPORATION: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $20,000 · EducationGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $272,500 · Recreation & SportsBRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA: $57,500 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $11,000 · Recreation & SportsHUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC: $155,305 · EnvironmentRIVERFEST FPS INC: $80,000 · EnvironmentMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 · Environment2041 FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Environment+4 more: $7,000 · EnvironmentBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentBridge the Gap College Prep: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,955,339Human Services$744,500Arts & Culture$575,210Education$547,180Recreation & Sports$341,000Environment$262,305Youth Development$160,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetFRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC: $475,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $272,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $197,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPARENTCHILD INC: $160,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION: $156,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetHUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC: $155,305 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $150,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION INC: $144,400 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetNEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC: $120,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetWriting Downtown Inc: $105,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC: $102,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREAD TO GROW INC: $100,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetJameson Animal Rescue Ranch: $83,600 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetBEYOND BEDTIME INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ROCHESTER INC: $80,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetRIVERFEST FPS INC: $80,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSundance Institute: $70,210 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAIRBNBORG INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA: $57,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHISTORIC HUDSON VALLEY: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LONG NOW FOUNDATION: $52,180 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHACKS HACKERS: $45,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Littlest Lamb: $45,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $42,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBookSpring: $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $36,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS NEED TO READ: $30,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetONE PURPOSE SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSonoma County Grape Growers Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetALL STARS PROJECT INC: $23,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLINK TO LIBRARIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetREADER TO READER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetBOOK FAIRIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASHMERE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetCREATIVE COMMONS CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUBI Charitable Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds GRASSROOT SOCCER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PARENTCHILD INC ↗
  • Who funds MASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC ↗
  • Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
  • Who funds TEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Writing Downtown Inc ↗
  • Who funds JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
  • Who funds Jameson Animal Rescue Ranch ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND BEDTIME INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVERFEST FPS INC ↗
  • Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds AIRBNBORG INC ↗
  • Who funds BRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC HUDSON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds THE LONG NOW FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
  • Who funds HACKS HACKERS ↗
  • Who funds The Littlest Lamb ↗
  • Who funds MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BookSpring ↗

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.

The New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundMarin Community Found…The Stanley S Langend…Jewish Community Fede…Webster Bank Charitab…Silicon Valley Commun…St Faith's House Foun…The Ayco Charitable F…Mbia FoundationPcsb Community Founda…
The New York Community TrustNY24.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Marin Community Foundation · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · St Faith's House Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Mbia Foundation · Pcsb Community 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 Elkes Foundation III funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elkes Foundation III. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reader to Reader Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
36report 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.
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How do I get to Elkes Foundation III?

Find your warmest path to Elkes Foundation III 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.

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 215 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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