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Elliott Foundation at a glance

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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.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$25kPhilanthropy$11kYouth Development$6kEnvironment$6kHuman Services$4kHealth$3kEducation$1kScience & Tech$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$96k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART CO$5,000
PREMIER ARTS$4,200
ST JOSEPH RIVER ASSOCIATION INC$2,500
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 19%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART CO: $5k → 13%YWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA: $500 → 13%PEACABLE PRIMATES SANCTUARY: $500 → 14%ST JOSEPH RIVER ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $100 → 13%SAMARITAN CENTER: $2k → 13%HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%HISTORIC ELKHART RIVER QUEEN INC: $1k → 13%HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%SAMARITAN CENTER: $1k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COU: $1k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COU: $1k → 13%HISTORIC ELKHART RIVER QUEEN INC: $500 → 13%ST JOSEPH RIVER ASSOCIATION INC: $500 → 13%ELKHART COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $500 → 13%HISTORIC ELKHART RIVER QUEEN INC: $500 → 13%HISTORIC ELKHART RIVER QUEEN INC: $500 → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COU: $250 → 13%PREMIER ARTS: $4k → 13%PREMIER ARTS: $4k → 13%PREMIER ARTS: $2k → 13%PREMIER ARTS: $2k → 13%PREMIER ARTS: $2k → 13%PREMIER ARTS: $2k → 13%PREMIER ARTS: $1k → 13%ETHOS INC: $1k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COU: $1k → 13%ELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COU: $1k → 13%WELLFIELD BOTANICAL GARDENS: $1k → 13%WELLFIELD BOTANICAL GARDENS: $1k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COU: $1k → 13%PREMIER ARTS: $1k → 13%WELLFIELD BOTANICAL GARDENS: $500 → 13%RUTHMERE MUSEUM: $250 → 13%PREMIER ARTS ACADEMY: $3k → 13%PREMIER ARTS: $250 → 13%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $3k → 13%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $2k → 13%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $1k → 13%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $1k → 13%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$39k · 7 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +462% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$39k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+462%
+10%

Still filing today

43%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationScience & TechEnvironmentPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • PA
    Premier Arts Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +474%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB
    4× · 2018–2021 · $6k
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH RIVER ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $3k

Funded once

  • PA
    PREMIER ARTS ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • VF
    VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +345%
  • EE
    ELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -73%
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
Early Learning Indiana Inc

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)

Human Services
2
Economic Development Corporation of Elkhart County Inc

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…

Unclassified
3
Elkhart Child Development Center Inc

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…

Education
4
Elkhart County Convention & Visitor Bureau Inc

The promotion of tourism, conventions, and other related events for elkhart county, indiana.

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5
Elkhart Civic Theatre Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Indianapolis Symphonic Choir Inc

We bring people, communities, and cultures together through performance, the creation of new choral works, outreach, and education in indianapolis and beyond.

—
7
Goshen Theater Inc

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,…

Arts & Culture
8
The Elkhart Municipal Band Fndn Inc
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9
The Elysabeth Kleinhans Theatrical Foundation
Philanthropy
10
The Montessori Academy At Edison Lakes Inc

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.

—
11
Downtown Elkhart Inc

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.

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12
Elkhart Volunteer Fire Department

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc; 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.
04the 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 17 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Premier Arts Inc: $18,600 · Arts & CulturePremier Arts IncHistoric Elkhart River Queen Inc: $2,500 · Arts & CultureHistoric Elkhart River Queen IncBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $6,300 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBST JOSEPH RIVER ASSOCIATION INC: $3,250 · OtherST JOSEPH RIVER ASSOCIATION INCSAMARITAN CENTER: $3,000 · OtherSAMARITAN CENTERPREMIER ARTS ACADEMY: $3,000 · OtherPREMIER ARTS ACADEMYHOSPICE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherHOSPICE FOUNDATION+4 more: $1,350 · Other+4 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $10,250 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION O…VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUN…WELLFIELD BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationETHOS INC: $1,000 · Science & TechPeaceable Primate Sanctuary: $500 · Animals
Arts & Culture$21,100Other$19,400Philanthropy$11,250Environment$2,500Education$1,000Science & Tech$1,000Animals$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPremier Arts Inc: $18,600 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $10,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWELLFIELD BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHistoric Elkhart River Queen Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetETHOS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeaceable Primate Sanctuary: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetELKHART COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOC INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Welter Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Bill Deputy FoundationRex and Alice A Marti…1st Source Bank Found…Lilly Endowment IncIrions Foundation IncEverwise Foundation I…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Welter Foundation IncIN24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Elliott Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elliott Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 17 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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