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Mark F and Lee Ann K Elvig Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$20k
Granted FY2020
4
Grants FY2020
3
Organizations funded FY2020
67%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$11,707
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 67% of the organizations Mark F and Lee Ann K Elvig Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
AnimalsOther
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
FY20203$20k67%
FY20191$15k0%
FY20182$18k50%
FY20171$27kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Arts & Culture$70kAnimals$7kFood & Nutrition$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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About Mark F and Lee Ann K Elvig Foundation

How much does Mark F and Lee Ann K Elvig Foundation give?
Mark F and Lee Ann K Elvig Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $19,852 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Mark F and Lee Ann K Elvig Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (88%), Animals (9%), Food & Nutrition (3%).
Who are Mark F and Lee Ann K Elvig Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts ($70k), Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($5k), The Houston Food Bank ($3k).
Does Mark F and Lee Ann K Elvig Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mark F and Lee Ann K Elvig Foundation 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.
Where is Mark F and Lee Ann K Elvig Foundation based?
Mark F and Lee Ann K Elvig Foundation is based in TX.

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 4 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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