· Private foundation
Ellsworth Henry E & Abigail E Fund
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST ECC | $3,605 |
| SIMSBURY FREE LIBRARY | $2,408 |
| SIMSBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,408 |
| VNA VALLEY CARE | $2,393 |
| TUFTS UNIVERSITY | $2,334 |
| COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS | $2,333 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $2,333 |
| SIMSBURY CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC | $1,211 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSimsbury Historical Society Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $42k · revenue +438%
- SFSIMSBURY FREE LIBRARY6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +22%
- SCSIMSBURY CEMETERY ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- HAHENRY & ABIGAIL ELLSWORTH SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2024 · $11k
Cornell Universityone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +23%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
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.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Simmons university is a community of higher learning that unites passion with purpose.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of hampshire college is to foster a lifelong passion for learning, inquiry, and ethical citizenship that inspires students to contribute to knowledge, justice, and positive change in the world and, by doing so, to transform…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Saybrook University relentlessly pursues a socially just, sustainable world by educating humanistic leaders to transform their fields and communities.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ellsworth Henry E & Abigail E Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ellsworth Henry E & Abigail E Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Simsbury Cemetery Association: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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