· Private foundation
Mathilde U and Albert Elser Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE | $10,000 |
| MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $1,750 |
| Goodman Theatre | $1,250 |
| SCHROEDER AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY CROSS RIVER HERI | $1,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PBS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HAMILTON COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $750 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH NO KID HUNGRY CAMPAIGN | $250 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS | $250 |
| MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY | $250 |
| WESTOVER SCHOOL | $200 |
| LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MPMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +94%
- WMWALKING MOUNTAINS3× · 2017–2020 · $22k · revenue +45%
Northwestern University9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +41%
Funded once
DePauw Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +43%- IPIMMANUEL PRESPYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $3k
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
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.
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Education and Research
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 41 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WALKING MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Betty Ford Alpine Gardens ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTOVER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE TAIMEN FUND ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS 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.
Open a dossier: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mathilde U and Albert Elser Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mathilde U and Albert Elser Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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