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Elliott 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART CO | $5,000 |
| PREMIER ARTS | $4,200 |
| ST JOSEPH RIVER ASSOCIATION INC | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +462% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PAPremier Arts Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +474%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB4× · 2018–2021 · $6k
- SJST JOSEPH RIVER ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2021–2025 · $3k
Funded once
- PAPREMIER ARTS ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $3k
- EIETHOS INCone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -73%
- EEELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -73%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Early learning indiana (eli) is on a mission to ensure every child is empowered with essential skills to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. (see schedule o for continuation)
To create an economically vibrant community by recruiting, retaining, and strengthening our economic base; being a catalyst for diversification, innovation, and economic change. we accomplish our mission by working with companies looking…
To provide high quality comprehensive child care and educational services primarily to children of lower income families in elkhart county, which includes physical, social, emotional and intellectual development of the child, while…
The promotion of tourism, conventions, and other related events for elkhart county, indiana.
The elkhart civic theatre is a non-profit community theatre in existence to produce and present a diverse assortment of high quality dramatic and musical plays for the community on a regular basis, to promote community interest in theatre…
We bring people, communities, and cultures together through performance, the creation of new choral works, outreach, and education in indianapolis and beyond.
Serving the elkhart county community as a premier performance and event venue promoting the arts and community to people of all ages. our goal is to turn this community investment into a thriving community center for the arts for goshen,…
The montessori academy (tma) is true to the teachings of dr. maria montessori. we create an environment that cultivates the child's intellect, instills responsibility, fosters respect, and inspires care for the community.
Downtown elkhart, inc. is a local organization whose function is to inspire and facilitate the aesthetic, cultural, civic, social and economic vitality of the downtown core area, enhancing the quality of life of the entire community.
Volunteer Fire Department that responds to emergencies such as fire, natural disasters and man made accidents. Responds to medical emergencies, fire suppression, fire prevention and assists government agencies and the public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Historic Elkhart River Queen Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Premier Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Elkhart River Queen Inc ↗
- Who funds WELLFIELD BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds ETHOS INC ↗
- Who funds ELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Peaceable Primate Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds ELKHART COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Welter Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · Bill Deputy Foundation · Rex and Alice A Martin Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Lilly Endowment Inc · Irions Foundation Inc · Everwise Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Elliott Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.