How much did JOSEPH AND BARBARA ELLIS FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of JOSEPH AND BARBARA ELLIS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

conservancysharonside

2020

musicconservation

2021

musicconservationinternationalside

2022

philanthropiesstatesconservationinternational

2023

statescongregationside

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k41 grants · $53k
$10k–50k15 grants · $223k
$50k–250k4 grants · $250k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC$100,000
EARTHJUSTICE$50,000
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC$50,000
THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC$50,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL - FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC$33,000
DOROT INC$30,000
BARNARD COLLEGE$25,000
RARE$20,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC$15,000
CHARLOTTE HUNGERFORD HOSPITAL$10,000
CARE INC$10,000
SHARON AUDUBON CENTER$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$10,000
UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION FOR UNHCR$10,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$10,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $296k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.7M · 84 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

84 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2023, 38 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.7M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+11%

Still filing today

57%

21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

R
RARE
5× · 2018–2023 · $310k · revenue +53%
DI
DOROT INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $256k · revenue +42%
BARNARD COLLEGE
4× · 2018–2023 · $230k · revenue +2%

Funded once

CS
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue +3%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRD LIF
one grant, 2019 · $125k
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRDS
one grant, 2018 · $125k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education

New York League of Conservation

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Eastern National

To serve america's national parks and other public trusts and their visitors

Recreation & Sports

New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc

New york landmarks conservancy, inc. preserves and revitalizes new york's architecture.

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Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

The organization is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural, and environmental resources of (continued) dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area.

Environment

New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule othe purpose of the corporation shall be to provide and support education of the citizens of the state of new york with respect to relevant environmental issues, to provide and support education of the citizens of the state of…

Environment

Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

We are ct's only locally owned media organization producing tv, radio, print and internet content with a mix of educational, new, public affairs, children's and entertainment programming.

Arts & Culture

Connecticut Aeronautical Historical

To present the story of aviation and the human genius that made it possible

Arts & Culture

International Center of Photography

The international center of photography is a center where photographs are collected, protected, researched, and exhibited; a place where students of all ages and accomplishments learn to make images and are challenged by technical and…

Arts & Culture

National Council of Jewish Women

Inspired by jewish values, the national council of jewish women is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children, and families, and by safeguarding…

Community Improvement

Wnet

Wnet is a multi-media public service non-profit that delivers lifelong learning and meaningful experiences to our communities. our content inspires curiosity, encourages action and nurtures dreams.

Arts & Culture

Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

Champions urban natural areas in nyc and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life and the most unlike its peers is The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/84

the rest of the field

10,118/120,676

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

78 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

78/78

Grantees still filing

61/78

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,123,755Environment$761,800Education$721,000Human Services$296,350International$228,800Animals$120,000Arts & Culture$98,160

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Northwest Connecticut CommunityCT28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northwest Connecticut Community · Berkshire Taconic Community · Mutual of America Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Grace R and Alan D Marcus Foundation · Foundation for Community Health Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Fjc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation JOSEPH AND BARBARA ELLIS FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

12get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~15 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 300265343 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 15 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Joseph and Barbara Ellis Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joseph and Barbara Ellis Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JOSEPH AND BARBARA ELLIS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

78 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Joseph and Barbara Ellis Foundation?

More from the funding graph

JOSEPH AND BARBARA ELLIS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

78 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Joseph and Barbara Ellis Foundation?

More from the funding graph