Idaho · Private foundation
Elton Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $500k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Median grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $649k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 54% of the organizations Elton Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $500k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $3.2M | 54% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $189k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $149k | 64% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $109k | 61% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $104k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Virginia University | $540,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Ame Family Foundation | $366,737 | 1 | 14% |
| Adb Family Foundation | $366,737 | 1 | n/a |
| Yal Foundation | $366,737 | 1 | 14% |
| 1212 Gives Inc | $366,737 | 1 | 14% |
| Barlow A Elton Foundation | $366,737 | 1 | 17% |
| Shawshank Foundation | $366,737 | 1 | 17% |
| The Chaime Foundation | $366,737 | 1 | 17% |
| Mdekfse Family Foundation | $153,260 | 2 | 6% |
| University of Washington | $99,500 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 36 grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($515k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Elton Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Mdekfse Family Foundation · Shawshank Foundation · 1212 Gives Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
About Elton Family Foundation
- How much does Elton Family Foundation give?
- Elton Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $500,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Elton Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (38%), Arts & Culture (19%), Education (17%).
- Who are Elton Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Southern Virginia University ($540k), Ame Family Foundation ($367k), Adb Family Foundation ($367k).
- Does Elton Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Elton Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Elton Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mdekfse Family Foundation, Shawshank Foundation, 1212 Gives Inc.
- Where is Elton Family Foundation based?
- Elton Family Foundation is based in ID.
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