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Gene & Neddie Mae Elkus Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$86k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
23%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,436
Organizations funded a year
15 to 34
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$1.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Gene & Neddie Mae Elkus Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationCrime & LegalInternationalCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving27$83k26%
FY202422$69k23%
FY202324$72k17%
FY202234$81k38%
FY202123$66k30%
FY202021$58k43%
FY201915$47kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$333kArts & Culture$52kEducation$19kReligion$18kHuman Services$18kCivil Rights$15kYouth Development$13kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
OR
IN
OH
PA
CO
VA
TN
SC
DC
AL
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($346k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gene & Neddie Mae Elkus Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $46,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $14,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $13,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLighthouse Youth Services: $9,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNational Jewish Health: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEverytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio Region: $3,468 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIndian Hill Foundation: $3,400 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHavern Center Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt Vincent's Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Children's Campaign: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Academy Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLiving with Change: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYouthroots: $1,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSt Vincent Hospital Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReach the Children Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDyslexia Resource Center: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNational Network of Abortion Funds Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Blue Bench: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Rocky Mountain School Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Sports Center for the Disabled Inc: $618 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Restaurant Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Children's Law Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Denver: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Helpings Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Broadcasting of Colorado Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Childrens Museum of Denver Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Gospel Mission and Affiliates: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBirmingham AIDS Outreach Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWoman's Exchange of Memphis Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMile High Montessori Early Learning Cent: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 34.

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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.

The Denver FoundationCO22× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Daniels Fund · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Anna and John J Sie Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Libertygives 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.

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About Gene & Neddie Mae Elkus Family Foundation

How much does Gene & Neddie Mae Elkus Family Foundation give?
Gene & Neddie Mae Elkus Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $85,872 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 34 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Gene & Neddie Mae Elkus Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (68%), Arts & Culture (11%), Education (4%).
Who are Gene & Neddie Mae Elkus Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ($46k), Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ($15k), American Jewish Committee ($14k).
Does Gene & Neddie Mae Elkus Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gene & Neddie Mae Elkus Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gene & Neddie Mae Elkus Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.
Where is Gene & Neddie Mae Elkus Family Foundation based?
Gene & Neddie Mae Elkus Family Foundation is based in OH.

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 63 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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