Washington · Private foundation
Ellison Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 103
- Grants FY2024
- 90
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $252,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 82 to 90
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $46M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Ellison Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $883k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 103 | $2.6M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 90 | $2.6M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 85 | $2.6M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 82 | $2.6M | 52% |
| FY2020 | 84 | $2.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overlake Hospital Foundation | $1,000,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Seattle Art Museum | $800,000 | 4 | 1% |
| University of Washington Foundation | $650,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way of King County | $500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Maris Place | $480,800 | 5 | 41% |
| Camp Korey | $350,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Seattle Children's Foundation | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Northwest Education Access | $300,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Brothers for Life | $280,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Kidvantage | $255,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 149 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 105 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ellison Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 131 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · United Way of King County · Medina Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Aven Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Harnish Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Grousemont Foundation
How this is measured
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How do I get to Ellison Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Ellison Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Ellison Foundation
- How much does Ellison Foundation give?
- Ellison Foundation reported 103 grants totaling $2,593,481 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 82 and 90 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Ellison Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (31%), Education (20%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Ellison Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Overlake Hospital Foundation ($1.0M), Seattle Art Museum ($800k), University of Washington Foundation ($650k).
- Does Ellison Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ellison Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ellison Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Norcliffe Foundation, Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation.
- Where is Ellison Foundation based?
- Ellison Foundation is based in WA.
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