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Ellis Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$558k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Youth Development$2.7MReligion$2.2MInternational$2.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.2MEducation$305kRecreation & Sports$53kHealth$25kHuman Services$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $69k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $489k
$90,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIDE BY SIDE CHURCH$120,000
TEEN CHALLENGE-SO CALIFORNIA$106,200
Individual grant recipient$99,000
SAVE THE WORLD FOUNDATION$90,000
Individual grant recipient$73,800
Individual grant recipient$45,000
NEWHOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH$12,833
CAPITAL CITY CHURCH$11,000
02The need
03

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.

Your US giving — 81% of grant dollars ($7.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 19% that went abroad ($1.7M) is mapped below.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Beyond the US — 19% of all-years giving ($1.7M)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
South Africa$1.2M · 9 grants
New Zealand$452k · 10 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.4M · 29 repeat orgs$373k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
30

Total granted

$8.4M
$373k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
0%

Still filing today

24%
33%

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
HealthReligionEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • CT
    COME TO HIM MINISTRIES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $73k · revenue +35%
  • MM
    MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +30%
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • EE
    ENLACE - EL SALVATOR
    one grant, 2017 · $132k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $59k · revenue 0%
  • NC
    NEWHOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH - STUDENT
    one grant, 2017 · $56k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Usc Care Medical Group Inc

To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…

Health
2
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

3
Usc Verdugo Hills Hospital Foundation

To raise funds in order to support the operation of the usc verdugo hills hospital, an organization exempt under irc 501(c)(3).

Health
4
Usc Health System

The Corporation is a nonprofit public benefit corporation and is not organized for the private gain of any person. It is organized under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for public and charitable purposes. The Corporation is…

Health
5
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
6
Tmc Health Foundation

The tmc health foundation supports the charitable mission of tucson medical center and is dedicated to improving the health and quality of life in our community.

Health
7
City of Hope National Medical Center

City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
8
Pacific Central Coast Health Centers

Pacific central coast health centers', sponsored by dignity community care, mission is to provide access to cost effective, quality medical services in the northern santa barbara county, san luis obispo county, kern county and ventura…

Health
9
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

10
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
11
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

12
Holy Cross Hospital Inc

We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Jb Arrowhead Club 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

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEEN CHALLENGE - SO CALIFORNIA — $1,304,300 · OtherTEEN CHALLENGE - SO CALIFORNIASAVE THE WORLD FOUNDATION — $1,198,000 · OtherSAVE THE WORLD FOUNDATIONSIDE BY SIDE CHURCH — $1,182,000 · OtherSIDE BY SIDE CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $981,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $813,230 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $778,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $519,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $412,000 · OtherNEWHOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH — $395,979 · Other+37 more — $664,486 · Other+37 moreInfluence Church — $264,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $59,000 · ReligionCOME TO HIM MINISTRIES — $72,500 · HealthHOAG CHARITY SPORTS — $50,288 · HealthMEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $5,140 · HealthSharp Healthcare Foundation — $4,796 · Health+2 more — $4,800 · HealthFIRE OVER AFRICA — $30,800 · InternationalEvangel University — $11,310 · EducationPalomar College Foundation — $4,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $1,000 · EducationThe Swinerton Foundation — $4,600 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $2,500 · Youth Development
Other$8,249,495Religion$323,000Health$137,524International$30,800Education$16,310Philanthropy$4,600Youth Development$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOME TO HIM MINISTRIES — $72,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $59,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOAG CHARITY SPORTS — $50,288 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFIRE OVER AFRICA — $30,800 over 2y, 20% of budgetEvangel University — $11,310 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $5,140 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation — $4,796 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Swinerton Foundation — $4,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPalomar College Foundation — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOFFATT ATHLETIC CHARITY — $2,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation — $1,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Cardinal Football and Cheer — $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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 Influence Church
  • Who funds COME TO HIM MINISTRIES
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds HOAG CHARITY SPORTS
  • Who funds FIRE OVER AFRICA
  • Who funds Evangel University
  • Who funds MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Sharp Healthcare Foundation
  • Who funds The Swinerton Foundation
  • Who funds Palomar College Foundation

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation 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 Family Charitable 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s 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 · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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