· Private foundation
Ellmar Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Ellmar Foundation Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Pinellas Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Ellmar Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k5 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $201k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $435k
- $250k+2 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PINELLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| COPPERHEAD CHARITIES INC | $250,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ORTHOTICS & PROSTHETICS | $150,000 |
| REAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC | $100,000 |
| CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| INSPIRE EQUINE THERAPY PROGRAM | $60,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF PINELLAS COUNTY | $50,000 |
| THE SHEPHERD CENTER | $35,000 |
| VETERANS ALTERNATIVE | $30,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SUNCOAST | $20,000 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR GOLF FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FLORIDA VETERANS HALL OF FAME SOCIETY INC | $15,000 |
| USF OFFICE OF VETERANS SUCCESS | $15,000 |
| WILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHAB | $11,457 |
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 human-services grants (FY21–21, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- IAINSPIRED ACRES INC2× · 2021–2022 · $480k · revenue -29%
- CCCOPPERHEAD CHARITIES INC2× · 2021–2022 · $404k · revenue +48%
- CCCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL2× · 2021–2022 · $135k
Funded once
- CMClearwater Marine Aquarium Incone grant, 2022 · $600k · revenue -8%
- HGHAPPY GOAT INCone grant, 2022 · $300k
PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
to improve lives and strengthen our community by contributing to community programs.
The College Fund of Pinellas County provides scholarships to cover a portion of the cost of college to financially-needy, qualified college students in Pinellas County, Florida. We provided $600 scholarships to a total of 147 students…
To save hometown heroes, raise warriors, and restore families through the great outdoors.
Aid Pinellas County Sheriff's Office in an effort to serve the community and promote excellence in law enforcement services.
To inspire and empower students qualifying for need-based scholarships to become future community leaders through a rigorous middle school program coupled with ongoing graduate support.
To facilitate services, resources, and partnerships that support people with disabilities, along with their families, caregivers, and community members.
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
The corporation is a volunteer group organized by community leaders of tampa bay. the mission is to raise money for local charities and support the tampa bay community by organizing and producing the clearwater super boat national…
Suncoast Waterworks has a devoted and knowledgeable team of experienced coaches. We have FUN and work hard to be one of the best artistic swim teams in the nation.
The organization's mission is to identify and invest in workforce development solutions to meet the needs of manatee and sarasota counties.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pinellas Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Real World Scholars Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 28 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds INSPIRED ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds COPPERHEAD CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PINELLAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas County Inc & Subsidiaries ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR WELLNESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds One Mile Leadership Project Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RYAN WELLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Suncoast Primate Sanctuary Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACK DAGGER MHC INC ↗
- Who funds TARPON SPRINGS BAND BOOSTERS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Copperhead Charities Inc · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Vinik Family Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Ellmar Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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