· Private foundation
Ellis Charitable Fdn- Bal
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of ELLIS CHARITABLE FDN- BAL’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORIGINAL CONGREGATION CHURCH OF WRENTHAM | $33,162 |
| NEW ENGLAND WILDFLOWER SOCIETY | $2,551 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $2,551 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - MAYFLOWER CNCL | $2,551 |
| CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $2,551 |
| YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL | $2,551 |
| MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY | $2,551 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,551 |
| CARE | $2,551 |
| MORGAN MEMORIAL GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | $2,551 |
| US FUNDS FOR UNICEF | $2,551 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $2,551 |
| ODD FELLOWS HOME OF MASSACHUSETTS | $2,551 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 41% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- TCTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC8× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +71%
- PSPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND8× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +27%
PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- COCHURCH OF WRENTHAMone grant, 2024 · $28k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
To provide the residents of the health center with the highest level of comprehensive medical care services with a considerate and personal touch.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
To advance the health of individuals and communities by serving as the leading voice for all massachusetts hospitals and healthcare systems and to help them provide high quality, cost-effective and equitable patient care.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Plant Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 22 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 THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MAYFLOWER COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ODD FELLOWS HOME OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries 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: 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 Ellis Charitable Fdn- Bal 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Odd Fellows Home of Massachusetts Inc — 38% of income from government
- Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc — 17% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% 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.