Delaware · Private foundation
Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust
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.
- $390k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,850
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $36,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 54
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 49 | $384k | 2% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $382k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $411k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $365k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $345k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Church Farm School | $78,187 | 5 | 0% |
| Germantown Friends School | $53,187 | 5 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc | $50,691 | 5 | 0% |
| Brandywine Red Clay Alliance | $44,841 | 5 | 1% |
| Diocesan Council Inc | $41,050 | 2 | n/a |
| Whyy Inc | $34,317 | 5 | 0% |
| Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc | $34,037 | 5 | 0% |
| Delaware Wild Lands Inc | $33,673 | 5 | 0% |
| Delaware Symphony Association Inc | $33,226 | 5 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $29,277 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($635k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · United Way of Delaware · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Ederic Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Marmot Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust
- How much does Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust give?
- Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust reported 50 grants totaling $390,108 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 54 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Religion (18%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Church Farm School ($78k), Germantown Friends School ($53k), Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc ($51k).
- Does Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Crestlea Foundation Inc, Longwood Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust based?
- Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust is based in DE.
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