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Elm 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.

$45k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,189
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,189
Organizations funded a year
1 to 20
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$787k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Elm Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$45k0%
FY20233$39k33%
FY20221$37k0%
FY20211$45k0%
FY202020$44k45%
FY201911$46k55%
FY20186$16kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$143kEducation$96kRecreation & Sports$27kHuman Services$5kAnimals$3kHealth$2kEnvironment$1kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
RI
DC
LA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Elm Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Miami City Ballet Inc$139,87260%
Kenyon College$30,00030%
The Willow School Inc$25,20920%
United States Equestrian Team Foundation Inc$23,75020%
University of Miami$20,00020%
Life Camp Inc$4,88520%
The Hotchkiss School$3,00030%
Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc$3,00030%
Countryside Alliance of Somerset Hills a Nj Nonprofit Corporation$2,50015%
New York City Ballet Inc$2,00020%
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc$1,50020%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$1,0001n/a
Smile Train Inc$1,00010%
Feeding America$1,00010%
Junior Achievement of New Jersey$1,00010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Elm Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMiami City Ballet Inc: $139,872 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetKenyon College: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Willow School Inc: $25,209 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUnited States Equestrian Team Foundation Inc: $23,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLife Camp Inc: $4,885 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Hotchkiss School: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCountryside Alliance of Somerset Hills a Nj Nonprofit Corporation: $2,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetNew York City Ballet Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBallet Theatre Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of New Jersey: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Swiftwater Foundation IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Swiftwater Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

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About Elm Foundation Inc

How much does Elm Foundation Inc give?
Elm Foundation Inc reported 2 grants totaling $45,398 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Elm Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Education (34%), Recreation & Sports (9%).
Who are Elm Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Miami City Ballet Inc ($140k), Kenyon College ($30k), The Willow School Inc ($25k).
Does Elm Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Elm 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 Elm Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Swiftwater Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Elm Foundation Inc based?
Elm Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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