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Ellucian Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $480k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $100,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSF | $25,000 |
| TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | $25,000 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CO | $25,000 |
| BOARD OF REGENTS - NEVADA STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ALFRED STATE COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FU | $25,000 |
| EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| GALVESTON COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS AT DALLAS | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON | $15,000 |
| GRAYSON COLLEGE | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +136% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $435k 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
- HCHUDSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE2× · 2022–2023 · $100k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA2× · 2021–2024 · $35k
- TUTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education2× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSone grant, 2021 · $25k
- WCWhittier Collegeone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -34%
- HPHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +19%
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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…
To expand on the mission statement made on page 1, trinity's core mission values and characteristics emphasize: 1)commitment to the education of women in a particular way through the design and pedagogy of the historic undergraduate…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Chartered in 1826, lafayette college is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. students are engaged in a transformative educational experience that bridges the liberal arts, engineering, and interdisciplinary study. the…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Schreiner University and the most unlike its peers is World Mission University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
46 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. 46 of the 124 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 CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds Whittier College ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UMA EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BERGEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEVADA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
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: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Texas Higher Education Foundation · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · Verizon Foundation · Ernst & Young Foundation · California Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Kpmg US Foundation Inc
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 Ellucian Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Pacific University — 2% of income from government
- Salisbury University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Uma Education 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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