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Ellard Family Foundation at a glance

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Ellard Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PINGREE SCHOOL INC$50,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$15,000
ST JOHNS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC$15,000
CREATIVE ACTION INSTITUTE INC$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROSEBUD$10,000
PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS$5,000
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER USA$5,000
GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL INC$5,000
SILVER LINING MENTORING INC$5,000
AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY USA INC$5,000
02The need
02

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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY WATER: $5k → 4%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.
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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$43k · 3 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$43k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
InternationalEducationReligionYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • CA
    CREATIVE ACTION INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $18k · revenue 0%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROSEBUD
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • PW
    PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k

Funded once

  • Appalachian Mountain Club
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • MS
    MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • CHARITY GLOBAL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -13%
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
Akashinga Inc

Deliver ecological stability and long-term protection of large-scale wilderness by supporting and empowering local communities.

Animals
2
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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6
Amazon Conservation Team

The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.

Science & Tech
7
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
8
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
9
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
10
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International
11
The Global Hunger Project

The hunger project is working to create a world without hunger through women-centered, holistic development strategies that address the root causes of hunger and poverty. in 2025, it reached nearly 12.7 million people in over 10,000…

International
12
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
1/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $20,000 · OtherMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUN…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROSEBUD: $15,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROSEBUDST JOHNS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · OtherST JOHNS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCPARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $10,000 · OtherPARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICAN…THE PINGREE SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · EducationTHE PINGREE SCHOOL INCAppalachian Mountain Club: $25,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain ClubNEW VENTURE FUND: $25,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDCREATIVE ACTION INSTITUTE INC: $17,500 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE …ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $5,000 · InternationalGroundswell International Inc: $5,000 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · InternationalAUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY USA INC: $5,000 · ReligionCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$60,000Education$50,000Environment$50,000Arts & Culture$17,500International$15,000Religion$5,000Human Services$5,000Youth Development$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PINGREE SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE ACTION INSTITUTE INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROSEBUD: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGroundswell International Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ellard Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ellard Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ellard Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ellard Family 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.

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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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