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Elsen Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$23k
Granted FY2021
13
Grants FY2021
11
Organizations funded FY2021
64%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$5,603
Organizations funded a year
4 to 11
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 64% of the organizations Elsen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202111$23k64%
FY20204$1kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Health$7kReligion$7kHuman Services$7kFood & Nutrition$3kHousing & Shelter$500

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Episcopal Diocese of Spokane Inc$5001n/a
Jewels Helping Hands$50010%
Bay Cliff Health Camp$50010%
Domanko Inc$1001n/a

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.

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About Elsen Family Foundation

How much does Elsen Family Foundation give?
Elsen Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $23,375 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Elsen Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Health (30%), Religion (29%), Human Services (27%).
Who are Elsen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: Episcopal Diocese of Spokane Inc ($500), Jewels Helping Hands ($500), Bay Cliff Health Camp ($500).
Does Elsen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Elsen Family Foundation 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.
Where is Elsen Family Foundation based?
Elsen Family Foundation is based in WA.

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 11 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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