New York · Private foundation
Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $4.5M
- Granted FY2023
- 36
- Grants FY2023
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 74%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2023
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $2,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 21
- Total assets, FY2023
- $41M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 74% of the organizations Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 34 | $4.4M | 74% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $5.2M | 62% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $2.3M | 64% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $2.0M | 73% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $1.8M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $1.7M | 100% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
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, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Louis Art Museum Foundation | $3,161,025 | 2 | 18% |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | $2,825,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Shaker Museum and Library | $2,100,000 | 2 | 45% |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $1,925,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Columbia Land Conservancy Inc | $900,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Walker Art Center | $250,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Art Omi Inc | $237,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Crandell Theatre Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 31% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Inc
- How much does Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Inc give?
- Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Inc reported 36 grants totaling $4,460,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (87%), Environment (5%), Public Benefit (1%).
- Who are Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: St Louis Art Museum Foundation ($3.2M), Philadelphia Museum of Art ($2.8M), Shaker Museum and Library ($2.1M).
- Does Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 74% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include T Backer Fund Inc, Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation, The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc.
- Where is Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Inc based?
- Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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