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G Ellis Charitable Foundation at a glance

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G Ellis Charitable Foundation

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.

$152k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$660kReligion$60kHuman Services$53kHealth$22kHousing & Shelter$10kAnimals$3kPhilanthropy$3kInternational$2k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $72k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLORIDA COLLEGE$75,000
EDGEHILL RECOVERY CENTER$32,000
FREDERICK CHURCH OF CHRIST$20,000
LIVING WATER SHOWER MINISTRY$20,000
SOL CENTER INC$4,800
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Mountain States Children's Home: $10k → 9%LIVING WATER SHOWER MINISTRY: $20k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$758k · 3 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$758k
$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
0%

Still filing today

33%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsReligionPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FC
    FLORIDA COLLEGE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $715k · revenue +75%
  • TT
    The Tears of a Mothers Cry Inc
    3× · 2019–2021 · $23k
  • FC
    FREDERICK COUNTY FOSTER ANDADOPTIVE PARENTS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $20k

Funded once

  • FS
    FLORIDA SCHOOL OF PREACHINGgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +90%
  • FC
    Freerick County Public Schools-Classmates4Life
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • AF
    ALL FOR RECOVERY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Almost Home Canine Rescue

Resuce, care and adopting canines

Animals
2
Marys Homes Inc

Recovery home

Housing & Shelter
3
Against All Odds Animal ResQ Inc
Animals
4
Crossroads Recovery House
—
5
New Life Recovery Services
Health
6
Forty Corners Animal Rescue Inc
—
7
All About Animals Rescue Inc

Rescue and rehome homeless cats and dogs

Animals
8
Choices for Recovery Inc
Health
9
Remnant Ministries Inc

Restore inmates and those addicted back in to society

Religion
10
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
11
Safe At Last Animal Rescue Inc
Animals
12
Risen From the Ashes

Animal rescue, rehabilitation, and rehom

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is So What Else Inc; the most unlike its peers is Middle Ridge Animal Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLORIDA COLLEGE INC: $715,000 · EducationFLORIDA COLLEGE INCFLORIDA SCHOOL OF PREACHING: $50,000 · EducationFLORIDA SCHOOL OF PREACHINGEDGEHILL RECOVERY CENTER: $32,000 · OtherEDGEHILL RECOVE…The Tears of a Mothers Cry Inc: $22,500 · OtherThe Tears of a …FREDERICK CHURCH OF CHRIST: $20,000 · OtherFREDERICK CHURC…Freerick County Public Schools-Classmates4Life: $20,000 · OtherFreerick County…FREDERICK COUNTY FOSTER ANDADOPTIVE PARENTS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · OtherFREDERICK COUNT…Rockville Church of Christ: $10,000 · OtherRockville Churc…SOL CENTER INC: $4,800 · Other+1 more: $2,000 · OtherLIVING WATER SHOWER MINISTRY INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesMountain States Children's Home: $10,000 · Human ServicesALL FOR RECOVERY INC: $11,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthAndrea's House Inc: $10,000 · ReligionMiddle Ridge Animal Rescue Inc: $3,000 · AnimalsSO WHAT ELSE INC: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Education$765,000Other$131,300Human Services$30,000Health$21,500Religion$10,000Animals$3,000Philanthropy$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFLORIDA COLLEGE INC: $715,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetFLORIDA SCHOOL OF PREACHING: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLIVING WATER SHOWER MINISTRY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetMountain States Children's Home: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAndrea's House Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMiddle Ridge Animal Rescue Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSO WHAT ELSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Amazonsmile Foundation
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Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization G Ellis Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from G Ellis Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Florida College Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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