Georgia · Private foundation
Elster Foundation Agt
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $374k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 61
- Grants FY2025
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 46
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Elster Foundation Agt funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 59 | $363k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 46 | $319k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $299k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $320k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $250k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $154k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $158k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $260k | 36% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc | $597,820 | 9 | 2% |
| Atlanta Ballet Inc | $197,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Florida Studio Theatre Inc | $185,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc | $110,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Piedmont Arts Association | $97,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc | $88,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Ron Clark Academy Inc | $87,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Charlotte Preparatory School Inc | $60,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Carlisle School | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Berry College Inc | $37,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($424k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Elster Foundation Agt supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: The Bessemer Giving Fund · Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Betty and Leon Goldstein Foundation
How this is measured
About Elster Foundation Agt
- How much does Elster Foundation Agt give?
- Elster Foundation Agt reported 61 grants totaling $373,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Elster Foundation Agt fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (59%), Education (18%), Health (12%).
- Who are Elster Foundation Agt's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ($598k), Atlanta Ballet Inc ($198k), Florida Studio Theatre Inc ($185k).
- Does Elster Foundation Agt fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Elster Foundation Agt 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 Elster Foundation Agt?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bessemer Giving Fund, Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia, Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc.
- Where is Elster Foundation Agt based?
- Elster Foundation Agt is based in GA.
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