California · Private foundation
Ellis Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $558k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $120,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Ellis Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $558k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $759k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $693k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $902k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $899k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $916k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $1.3M | 22% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $1.4M | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Influence Church | $264,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Capital City Church | $74,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Come to Him Ministries | $72,500 | 3 | 10% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $59,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hoag Charity Sports | $50,288 | 2 | 1% |
| Fire Over Africa | $30,800 | 2 | 20% |
| Evangel University | $11,310 | 1 | 0% |
| International House of Prayer | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Memorial Medical Center Foundation | $5,140 | 2 | 0% |
| Sharp Healthcare Foundation | $4,796 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Influence Church | $264,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Capital City Church | $74,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Come to Him Ministries | $72,500 | 3 | 10% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $59,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hoag Charity Sports | $50,288 | 2 | 1% |
| Fire Over Africa | $30,800 | 2 | 20% |
| Evangel University | $11,310 | 1 | 0% |
| International House of Prayer | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Memorial Medical Center Foundation | $5,140 | 2 | 0% |
| Sharp Healthcare Foundation | $4,796 | 1 | 0% |
| The Swinerton Foundation | $4,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Palomar College Foundation | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of America | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Moffatt Athletic Charity | $2,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation | $1,850 | 1 | 0% |
| Providence Speech and Hearing Center | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
| South Cardinal Football and Cheer | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| JB Arrowhead Club Inc | $100 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ellis Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ellis Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Ellis Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Ellis Family Charitable Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $557,833 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ellis Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (31%), Religion (26%), International (25%).
- Who are Ellis Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Influence Church ($264k), Capital City Church ($74k), Come to Him Ministries ($73k).
- Does Ellis Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ellis Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ellis Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Ellis Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Ellis Family Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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