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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 FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$33k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$259kInternational$57kEducation$26kHealth$22kEnvironment$19kEmployment$19kFood & Nutrition$19kYouth Development$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
$2,551
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ORIGINAL CONGREGATION CHURCH OF WRENTHAM$33,162
PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$2,551
SALVATION ARMY$2,551
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - MAYFLOWER CNCL$2,551
CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND$2,551
MORGAN MEMORIAL GOODWILL INDUSTRIES$2,551
US FUNDS FOR UNICEF$2,551
MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY$2,551
ODD FELLOWS HOME OF MASSACHUSETTS$2,551
NEW ENGLAND WILDFLOWER SOCIETY$2,551
YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL$2,551
CARE$2,551
PROJECT HOPE$2,551
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 41% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%UNITED CHURCH OF NORWOOD: $36k → 7%PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 8%ODD FELLOWS HOME: $3k → 11%MORGAN MEMORIAL GOODWILL IND: $3k → 16%THE SALVATION ARMY: $3k → 14%US FUNDS FOR UNICEF: $3k → 17%PROJECT HOPE: $3k → 14%CARE: $3k → 13%UNITED CHURCH OF NORWOOD: $32k → 7%PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 8%ODD FELLOWS HOME OF MASSACHUSETTS: $3k → 11%MORGAN MEMORIAL GOODWILL INDUSTRIES: $3k → 16%SALVATION ARMY: $3k → 14%US FUNDS FOR UNICEF: $3k → 17%PROJECT HOPE: $3k → 14%CARE: $3k → 13%UNITED CHURCH OF NORWOOD: $30k → 7%PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%ODD FELLOWS HOME: $2k → 11%MORGAN MEMORIAL GOODWILL IND: $2k → 16%THE SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 14%US FUNDS FOR UNICEF: $2k → 17%PROJECT HOPE: $2k → 14%CARE: $2k → 13%UNITED CHURCH OF NORWOOD: $30k → 7%PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%ODD FELLOWS HOME: $2k → 11%MORGAN MEMORIAL GOODWILL IND: $2k → 16%THE SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 14%US FUNDS FOR UNICEF: $2k → 17%PROJECT HOPE: $2k → 14%UNITED CHURCH OF NORWOOD: $29k → 7%UNITED CHURCH OF NORWOOD: $28k → 7%MA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $3k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $3k → 7%NEW ENGLAND WILDFLOWER SOCIETY: $3k → 8%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - MAYFLOWER CNCL: $3k → 11%MA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $2k → 7%NEW ENGLAND WILDFLOWER SOCIETY: $2k → 8%BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $2k → 11%CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 8%ORIGINAL CONGREGATION CHURCH OF WRENTHAM: $33k → 7%CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 8%CHURCH OF WRENTHAM: $28k → 7%CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $3k → 8%ANDOVER NEWTON THEOLOGICAL SCH: $3k → 8%NEW ENGLAND WILDFLOWER SOCIETY: $3k → 8%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$402k · 15 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
2

Total granted

$402k
$30k

Still filing today

40%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEnvironmentHealthEducationEmploymentOther
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

  • TC
    THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +71%
  • PS
    PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
    8× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +27%
  • PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • CO
    CHURCH OF WRENTHAM
    one grant, 2024 · $28k
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

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.

Health
2
People Inc

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,…

Human Services
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

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.

Health
6
MaineGeneral Health

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.

Health
7
Overlook Masonic Health Center Inc

To provide the residents of the health center with the highest level of comprehensive medical care services with a considerate and personal touch.

Health
8
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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9
Massachusetts Health & Hospital Assoc Inc

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.

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10
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
11
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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12
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Plant Trust Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 22 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED CHURCH OF NORWOOD: $186,414 · OtherUNITED CHURCH OF NORWOODORIGINAL CONGREGATION CHURCH OF WRENTHAM: $33,162 · OtherORIGINAL CONGREGATION CHURCH OF WRENTHAMCHURCH OF WRENTHAM: $27,946 · OtherCHURCH OF WRENTHAMUS FUNDS FOR UNICEF: $19,039 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $19,039 · OtherMA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $16,488 · OtherMORGAN MEMORIAL GOODWILL IND: $16,488 · OtherODD FELLOWS HOME: $16,488 · Other+7 more: $40,629 · Other+7 morePROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $19,039 · InternationalPROJECT H…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $19,039 · InternationalCOOPERATI…NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC: $19,039 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $2,551 · EnvironmentTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $19,039 · HealthPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $19,039 · EducationMorgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc: $2,551 · Employment
Other$375,693International$38,078Environment$21,590Health$19,039Education$19,039Employment$2,551

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

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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ellis Charitable Fdn- Bal funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ellis Charitable Fdn- Bal. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 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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