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Marian & John a Elliott Foundation Inc

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.

$390k
Granted FY2021
24
Grants FY2021
12
Organizations funded FY2021
58%
First-time grantees FY2021
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100% of Marian & John a Elliott Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Marian & John a Elliott Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $390k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’19
5
’21
0
’23
0
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2021
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 14
FY2019 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
5
Total assets, FY2021
$2.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 58% of the organizations Marian & John a Elliott Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202112$360k58%
FY201914$145kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$225kEducation$180kHuman Services$45kRecreation & Sports$30kPhilanthropy$29kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kYouth Development$15kHealth$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Diocese of la Crosse$120,0002n/a
Schools of the Sacred Heart-San Francisco$55,0002n/a
Viterbo University$20,00020%
The Guardsmen$15,00011%
Kino Border Initiative Inc$10,00010%
St Clare Health Mission Inc$10,00022%
Catholic Charities Inc Diocese of Madison$5,00010%

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($270k), not named here.

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.

Sue Anne Gelatt FoundationWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sue Anne Gelatt Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About Marian & John a Elliott Foundation Inc

How much does Marian & John a Elliott Foundation Inc give?
Marian & John a Elliott Foundation Inc reported 24 grants totaling $390,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
What does Marian & John a Elliott Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2021, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Education (32%), Human Services (8%).
Who are Marian & John a Elliott Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2021: Diocese of la Crosse ($120k), Schools of the Sacred Heart-San Francisco ($55k), Viterbo University ($20k).
Does Marian & John a Elliott Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marian & John a Elliott Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marian & John a Elliott Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sue Anne Gelatt Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Marian & John a Elliott Foundation Inc based?
Marian & John a Elliott Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 23 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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