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Michigan · Private foundation

Elsa U Pardee Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Itemized grants FY2024
26
Organizations funded FY2023
69%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$4.2M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$166,809
Largest grant, FY2024
$485,488
Organizations funded a year
23 to 30
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$69M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 69% of the organizations Elsa U Pardee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationHealthOther
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 arriving21$4.2M33%
FY202326$4.5M69%
FY202223$4.1M48%
FY202127$4.9M70%
FY202030$4.1Mn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$12MEducation$8.1MHuman Services$750kScience & Tech$428kPhilanthropy$289kRecreation & Sports$154kYouth Development$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mymichigan Health$1,070,00030%
University of Michigan$992,475468%
Pardee Cancer Treatment Fund of Isabella County$750,000399%
Pardee Cancer Treatment Fund of Gratiot County$600,000385%
Regents of the University of Michigan$518,5133n/a
Pardee Cancer Treatment Fund of Clare County$500,000389%
Washington University$427,63230%
Children's Hospital Medical Center$328,05310%
University of Pittsburgh$326,79120%
University of Miami$310,75210%
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All grantees of Elsa U Pardee Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mymichigan Health$1,070,00030%
University of Michigan$992,475468%
Pardee Cancer Treatment Fund of Isabella County$750,000399%
Pardee Cancer Treatment Fund of Gratiot County$600,000385%
Regents of the University of Michigan$518,5133n/a
Pardee Cancer Treatment Fund of Clare County$500,000389%
Washington University$427,63230%
Children's Hospital Medical Center$328,05310%
University of Pittsburgh$326,79120%
University of Miami$310,75210%
University of Chicago$266,69320%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$257,77820%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$226,22830%
Duke University$191,47210%
West Virginia University Research Corporation$189,00010%
University of Utah$188,4571n/a
The George Washington University$186,91110%
Case Western Reserve University$165,01410%
Trustees of Purdue University$159,9861n/a
Northwestern University$154,01810%
Central Michigan University$154,0081n/a
Carnegie Mellon University$149,61310%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory$148,03410%
Baylor College of Medicine$147,13720%
St Louis University$147,06610%
Western University of Health Sciences$139,03710%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center$126,35710%
University of South Alabama$126,0001n/a
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center$125,42910%
University of Washington$107,9771n/a
The University of Texas Foundation Inc$105,00010%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$94,50010%
Loyola University of Chicago$90,61610%
University of Kentucky Research Foundation$90,54310%
Council of Michigan Foundations$52,30050%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Elsa U Pardee Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMymichigan Health: $1,070,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $992,475 over 4y, 68% of budgetPardee Cancer Treatment Fund of Isabella County: $750,000 over 3y, 99% of budgetPardee Cancer Treatment Fund of Gratiot County: $600,000 over 3y, 85% of budgetPardee Cancer Treatment Fund of Clare County: $500,000 over 3y, 89% of budgetWashington University: $427,632 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Medical Center: $328,053 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $326,791 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $310,752 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $266,693 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $257,778 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $226,228 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDuke University: $191,472 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Virginia University Research Corporation: $189,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe George Washington University: $186,911 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $165,014 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $154,018 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $149,613 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCold Spring Harbor Laboratory: $148,034 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $147,137 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis University: $147,066 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestern University of Health Sciences: $139,037 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: $126,357 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $125,429 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Texas Foundation Inc: $105,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $94,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoyola University of Chicago: $90,616 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $90,543 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil of Michigan Foundations: $52,300 over 5y, 0.2% 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 29.

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Find your warmest path to Elsa U Pardee 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.

About Elsa U Pardee Foundation

How much does Elsa U Pardee Foundation give?
Elsa U Pardee Foundation reported 21 itemized grants totaling $4,194,511, out of $4,516,613 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 30 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Elsa U Pardee Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (44%), Education (29%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Elsa U Pardee Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Mymichigan Health ($1.1M), University of Michigan ($992k), Pardee Cancer Treatment Fund of Isabella County ($750k).
Does Elsa U Pardee Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Elsa U Pardee Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Elsa U Pardee Foundation based?
Elsa U Pardee Foundation is based in MI.

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 86 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5.1M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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