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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.

$64k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,551
Largest grant, FY2025
$33,162
Organizations funded a year
13 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Ellis Charitable Fdn- Bal funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$64k38%
FY202414$58k14%
FY202313$61k15%
FY202213$69k0%
FY202113$58k0%
FY202013$57k0%
FY201913$56k0%
FY201813$54kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$259kInternational$57kEducation$26kHealth$22kEnvironment$19kEmployment$19kFood & Nutrition$19kYouth Development$19kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Ellis Charitable Fdn- Bal by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Church of Norwood$186,4147n/a
The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc$19,03980%
Perkins School for the Blind$19,03980%
The Salvation Army$19,0398n/a
Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc$19,03980%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$19,03980%
Native Plant Trust Inc$19,03980%
Mayflower Council Inc Boy Scouts of America$4,77020%
Massachusetts Horticultural Society$2,55110%
Odd Fellows Home of Massachusetts Inc$2,5511n/a
Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc$2,55110%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($163k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ellis Charitable Fdn- Bal supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: $19,039 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPerkins School for the Blind: $19,039 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetProject Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc: $19,039 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $19,039 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNative Plant Trust Inc: $19,039 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMayflower Council Inc Boy Scouts of America: $4,770 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Horticultural Society: $2,551 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMorgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc: $2,551 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

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About Ellis Charitable Fdn- Bal

How much does Ellis Charitable Fdn- Bal give?
Ellis Charitable Fdn- Bal reported 13 grants totaling $63,774 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ellis Charitable Fdn- Bal fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (54%), International (12%), Education (6%).
Who are Ellis Charitable Fdn- Bal's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: United Church of Norwood ($186k), The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc ($19k), Perkins School for the Blind ($19k).
Does Ellis Charitable Fdn- Bal fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ellis Charitable Fdn- Bal 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 Ellis Charitable Fdn- Bal?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Ellis Charitable Fdn- Bal based?
Ellis Charitable Fdn- Bal is based in NJ.

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 22 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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