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Ellsworth Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$491k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$231kPhilanthropy$215kRecreation & Sports$179kArts & Culture$173kHuman Services$75kYouth Development$60kReligion$25kAnimals$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL$100,000
PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION$50,000
BABY2BABY$50,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCATION$35,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCATION$30,000
ALASKA JEWISH CAMPUS$25,000
ALASKA RUSH SOCCER CLUB$25,000
CAMP FIRE ALASKA$25,000
COVENANT HOUSE$25,000
ALYESKA SKI CLUB$15,000
UNITED FOUNDATION$10,000
LOS ANGELES COUNTY ANIMAL CARE$10,000
ANCHORAGE OPERA COMPANY$10,000
ALASKA STATE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION$10,000
ALYESKA SKI CLUB$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 24% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PASADENA HUMANE FOR FIRE RELIEF: $10k → 14%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 17%ALASKA STATE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $2k → 10%SOUTH ANCHORAGE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $1k → 10%PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%ALASKA STATE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 22%UNITED FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%BABY2BABY: $50k → 14%BARTLETT BOYS: $10k → 10%ALASKA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $4k → 22%LOS ANGELES COUNTY ANIMAL CARE: $10k → 14%BARTLETT BOYS HOCKEY BOOSTER CLUB: $5k → 10%ROCKET FUEL: $2k → 22%ALASKA RUSH SOCCER CLUB: $25k → 10%BARTLETT BOYS HOCKEY BOOSTER CLUB: $4k → 10%LYNX PEAK FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%TRUGAME ACADEMY: $3k → 10%SOUTH WRESTLING: $1k → 10%ALYESKA SKI CLUB: $15k → 10%ALYESKA SKI CLUB: $10k → 10%PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION: $26k → 10%PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%ALASKA JEWISH CAMPUS: $25k → 10%CAMP FIRE ALASKA: $25k → 10%CAMP FIRE ALASKA: $25k → 10%PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION - OPERA: $5k → 10%CHALLENGE ALASKA: $3k → 10%ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $100k → 10%ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $25k → 10%SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALASKA: $20k → 10%CHALLENGE ALASKA: $15k → 10%CHALLENGE ALASKA: $15k → 10%SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALASKA: $10k → 10%ANCHORAGE OPERA COMPANY: $10k → 10%SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALASKA: $5k → 10%SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALASKA: $5k → 10%SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALASKA: $5k → 10%ANCHORAGE OPERA: $5k → 10%ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS - COMEDY UP NORTH: $3k → 10%SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALASKA: $3k → 10%DENALI MONTESSORI PTSA: $1k → 10%ANCHORAGE SPORTS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$427k · 6 repeat orgs$578k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$427k
$269k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+10%

Still filing today

83%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $308k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • PA
    PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $161k · revenue +66%
  • CF
    CAMP FIRE ALASKA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +1%
  • AS
    Alaska Special Olympics DBA Special Olympics Alaska Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $48k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • 1C
    10 Chefs Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $210k · revenue -19% · 45% of their budget
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +19%
  • AS
    ANCHORAGE SPORTS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Anchorage Ski Club Inc

To provide access, facilities, recreation, and educational opportunities within the alpine environment of Chugach State Park.

Recreation & Sports
2
Arctic Winter Games Team Alaska

As the official representative of the state of alaska, to promote and integrate athletic and cultural activities for the youth of alaska with the youth of the international circumpolar north.

Recreation & Sports
3
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
4
Ak Firecrackers

National amateur sports (softball) competition

Recreation & Sports
5
Alaska Avalanche School Inc

The mission of the Alaska Avalanche School is to provide exceptional experience-based avalanche safety education to all users of the mountain environment.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Alaska Allstar Hockey Association

To provide and to encourage the sport of amateur hockey.

Recreation & Sports
7
Alaska Youth Orchestras

To build musicianship, inspire youth to love music, offering enriching opportunities for musical performance and create a musical legacy that will sustain an appreciation of the arts throughout the lives of our members and community.

Arts & Culture
8
Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association

The Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association (AHHA) is a non-profit trade association representing more than 65 hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, and other healthcare partners.Our members are distributed across…

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9
Alaska Association of Nurse Anesthesiology

To promote professional interest of membership

Community Improvement
10
United Way of Anchorage

We unite caring people to give volunteer and take action to remove barriers to opportunities. Thats been our mission since we first started serving Alaska. It guides how we solve our communitys toughest challenges and is why weve been able…

Philanthropy
11
Alaska Childrens Alliance

Dedicated to strengthening the multi-disciplinary response to child abuse. We strive to ensure that professionals throughout Alaska are equipped to do the best job possible at holding offenders accountable and helping children and families…

Crime & Legal
12
Anchorage Museum Association

The anchorage museum association operates the anchorage museum at rasmuson center.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Center for the Performing Arts; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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 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. 19 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCATION: $65,000 · OtherAMERICAN HEART ASSOCATIONBABY2BABY: $50,000 · OtherBABY2BABYChallenge Alaska: $33,100 · OtherChallenge AlaskaALASKA RUSH SOCCER CLUB: $25,000 · OtherALASKA RUSH SOCCER CLUBCOVENANT HOUSE: $25,000 · OtherCOVENANT HOUSEALASKA JEWISH CAMPUS: $25,000 · OtherALASKA JEWISH CAMPUSAlaska State Hockey Association Inc: $12,000 · Other+13 more: $71,600 · Other+13 more10 Chefs Inc: $210,000 · Philanthropy10 Chefs IncPROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION: $160,900 · HealthPROVIDENCE ALASKA …+1 more: $5,000 · HealthANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $125,000 · Arts & CultureANCHORAGE INTERNAT…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25,450 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEU…ANCHORAGE OPERA COMPANY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureANCHORAGE OPERA CO…+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureAlaska Special Olympics DBA Special Olympics Alaska Inc: $47,900 · Recreation & SportsAlaska Sp…ALYESKA SKI CLUB INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsALYESKA S…ANCHORAGE SPORTS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsANCHORAGE…+1 more: $1,200 · Recreation & SportsCAMP FIRE ALASKA: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentSG UNITED FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBest Friends Animal Rescue: $10,000 · AnimalsUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education
Other$306,700Philanthropy$210,000Health$165,900Arts & Culture$162,950Recreation & Sports$84,100Youth Development$60,000Animals$10,000Education$5,000

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 budget10 Chefs Inc: $210,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetPROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION: $160,900 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $125,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCAMP FIRE ALASKA: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAlaska Special Olympics DBA Special Olympics Alaska Inc: $47,900 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetChallenge Alaska: $33,100 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALYESKA SKI CLUB INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetANCHORAGE OPERA COMPANY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetANCHORAGE SPORTS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSG UNITED FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH ANCHORAGE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Alaska Community …Rasmuson FoundationThe Carr Foundation I…Richard L and Diane M…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Alaska Community FoundationAK27.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Alaska Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · The Carr Foundation Inc · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 Ellsworth Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ellsworth 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.

    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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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