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Gene & Neddie Mae Elkus Family Foundation at a glance

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Gene & Neddie Mae Elkus Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$86k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$35k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$333kArts & Culture$52kEducation$19kReligion$18kHuman Services$18kCivil Rights$15kYouth Development$13kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
O'NEAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER$35,436
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$7,500
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$7,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC$4,000
ISAAC M WISE TEMPLE$4,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$2,500
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$2,500
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION$2,000
CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$2,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINCINNATI$1,500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$1,500
LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES$1,500
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA TRUSTEES$1,000
GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING$1,000
JSCREEN AT EMORY UNIVERSITY$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$459k · 33 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
20

Total granted

$459k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+3%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureInternationalCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    7× · 2019–2025 · $46k · revenue +21%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
    7× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +42%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $14k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • CC
    COLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • RA
    RICHARD A ELKUS MD EXCELLENCE IN GI
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • SV
    ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +12%
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
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
2
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
5
Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence

The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…

Civil Rights
6
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
9
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
10
Alliance for Childhood Diseases

To advance cures and treatment of childhood cancer and other rare diseases.

Health
11
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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12
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Children's Campaign; the most unlike its peers is Dyslexia Resource Center. 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

38 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. 38 of the 63 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
21/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

O'NEAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $218,636 · OtherO'NEAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTERMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $44,223 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC: $21,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INCISAAC M WISE TEMPLE: $16,869 · OtherCINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $14,500 · Other+36 more: $50,476 · Other+36 moreThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $46,000 · Arts & CultureThe United…+2 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $14,500 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $7,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION: $3,468 · HealthLiving with Change: $2,000 · HealthST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Health+3 more: $1,750 · HealthINDIAN HILL FOUNDATION: $3,400 · EducationHAVERN CENTER INC: $3,000 · EducationDENVER ACADEMY INC: $3,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000 · EducationYOUTHROOTS: $1,200 · EducationCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $750 · EducationCOLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION: $500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $500 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $13,500 · Civil RightsJewish Federation of Cincinnati: $10,000 · PhilanthropyLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $9,500 · Human Services
Other$365,704Arts & Culture$47,000Health$29,718Education$14,350Civil Rights$13,500Philanthropy$10,000Human Services$9,500

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

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 budgetJewish Federation of Cincinnati: $10,000 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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLiving with Change: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,342 over 3y, 0.0% 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
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.

  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Federation of Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN HILL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAVERN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Living with Change ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHROOTS ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds REACH THE CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds DYSLEXIA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗

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 FoundationColorado Gives Founda…The Colorado Health F…Rose Community Founda…The Anschutz Foundati…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Daniels FundXcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …The Anna and John J S…Schlessman Foundation…Libertygives Foundati…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gene & Neddie Mae Elkus Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gene & Neddie Mae Elkus Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 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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