Illinois · Private foundation
James E Elliot Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $144k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,420
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 20
- Total assets, FY2025
- $102k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations James E Elliot Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 | 41 | $143k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $130k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $49k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $205k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $373k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $56k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $111k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $120k | 49% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheaton Academy | $128,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Cedarville University | $101,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Yellowstone Alliance Adventures | $63,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Pioneers | $62,600 | 9 | n/a |
| Operation Mobilization | $52,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Outreach Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Dickson Valley Ministries | $48,400 | 9 | 5% |
| Without Reservation | $46,803 | 7 | 31% |
| Awana Clubs International and Affiliates | $37,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Sim USA Incorporated | $35,500 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($395k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
James E Elliot Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 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: Tyndale House Ministries · Clayton Brown Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Dupage Community Foundation · The Cornerstone Center Foundation · Nkc Family Foundation · Believers Stewardship Services Inc · The Bolick Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Servant Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation
How this is measured
About James E Elliot Charitable Trust
- How much does James E Elliot Charitable Trust give?
- James E Elliot Charitable Trust reported 42 grants totaling $143,570 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does James E Elliot Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (50%), Education (26%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
- Who are James E Elliot Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wheaton Academy ($128k), Cedarville University ($101k), Yellowstone Alliance Adventures ($63k).
- Does James E Elliot Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James E Elliot Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as James E Elliot Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tyndale House Ministries, Clayton Brown Family Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
- Where is James E Elliot Charitable Trust based?
- James E Elliot Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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