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Ellmar Foundation Inc at a glance

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Ellmar Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2021
23
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

15
’21
4
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Animals$929kPhilanthropy$704kHealth$640kEducation$562kReligion$105kHousing & Shelter$75kHuman Services$66kPublic Benefit$25kOther$0
02FY2021 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k5 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $201k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $435k
  • $250k+2 grants · $550k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR GOLF FOUNDATION$20,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SUNCOAST$20,000
FLORIDA VETERANS HALL OF FAME SOCIETY INC$15,000
USF OFFICE OF VETERANS SUCCESS$15,000
WILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHAB$11,457
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $25k → 13%VETERANS ALTERNATIVE: $30k → 11%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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 4 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
23

Total granted

$1.0M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+15%

Still filing today

50%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
EducationAnimalsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • IA
    INSPIRED ACRES INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $480k · revenue -29%
  • CC
    COPPERHEAD CHARITIES INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $404k · revenue +48%
  • CC
    CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $135k

Funded once

  • CM
    Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $600k · revenue -8%
  • HG
    HAPPY GOAT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +15%
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
Pinellas Realtor Foundation Inc

to improve lives and strengthen our community by contributing to community programs.

Philanthropy
2
College Fund of Pinellas County Inc

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…

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3
10 Can Inc

To save hometown heroes, raise warriors, and restore families through the great outdoors.

Health
4
Pinellas County Sheriffs Office Foundation Inc

Aid Pinellas County Sheriff's Office in an effort to serve the community and promote excellence in law enforcement services.

Youth Development
5
Academy Prep Center of St Petersburg

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.

Education
6
Abilities Inc of Florida

To facilitate services, resources, and partnerships that support people with disabilities, along with their families, caregivers, and community members.

Employment
7
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

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…

Animals
8
Tampa Bay Charities Inc

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…

Philanthropy
9
Tampa Women Stars Inc
Community Improvement
10
Suncoast WaterWorks

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.

Recreation & Sports
11
St Petersburg Sailing Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
12
Suncoast Workforce Board Inc

The organization's mission is to identify and invest in workforce development solutions to meet the needs of manatee and sarasota counties.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pinellas Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 28 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAPPY GOAT INC: $300,000 · OtherHAPPY GOAT INCINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ORTHOTICS & PROSTHETICS: $150,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ORTH…CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $135,000 · OtherCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLFELLOWSHIP OF BELIEVERS CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF BELIEVERS CHURCHHabitat for Humanity of Pinellas County Inc & Subsidiaries: $50,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity of Pinella…THE SHEPHERD CENTER: $35,000 · Other+9 more: $106,276 · Other+9 moreCOPPERHEAD CHARITIES INC: $404,000 · PhilanthropyCOPPERHEAD CHARITIES INCPINELLAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300,000 · PhilanthropyPINELLAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO…REAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyREAL WORLD SCHOLARS INCClearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: $600,000 · AnimalsClearwater Marine Aqu…+1 more: $10,000 · AnimalsINSPIRED ACRES INC: $480,000 · Youth DevelopmentINSPIRED ACRES IN…PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · EducationPINELLAS CO…+2 more: $12,000 · EducationWARRIOR WELLNESS PROGRAM INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · HealthBLACK DAGGER MHC INC: $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$876,276Philanthropy$804,000Animals$610,000Youth Development$480,000Education$312,000Human Services$55,000Health$10,000Recreation & Sports$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: $600,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetINSPIRED ACRES INC: $480,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetCOPPERHEAD CHARITIES INC: $404,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPINELLAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetREAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Pinellas County Inc & Subsidiaries: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWARRIOR WELLNESS PROGRAM INC: $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SUNCOAST INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSuncoast Primate Sanctuary Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetOne Mile Leadership Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetRYAN WELLS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBLACK DAGGER MHC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTARPON SPRINGS BAND BOOSTERS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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.

Copperhead Charities …Rays Baseball Foundat…Pinellas Community Fo…Duke Energy FoundationVinik Family Foundati…Raymond James Charita…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Copperhead Charities IncFL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ellmar Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ellmar Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Ministries Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ellmar Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ellmar Foundation Inc 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.

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 28 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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