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Niel C & Karen M Ellerbrook Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$132k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
21%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 21
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Niel C & Karen M Ellerbrook Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2024still arriving8$132k25%
FY202314$217k21%
FY20229$152k44%
FY202118$176k61%
FY202021$184k67%
FY201910$48k60%
FY201812$190k67%
FY201716$95kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$574kPhilanthropy$190kHealth$64kArts & Culture$47kReligion$43kPublic Safety & Disaster$42kFood & Nutrition$31kPublic Benefit$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
IN
CT
CA
KY
AR
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 36 grantees
All grantees of Niel C & Karen M Ellerbrook Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ball State University Foundation Inc$220,00040%
University of Evansville$193,00070%
Franklin College of Indiana$75,00040%
Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc$31,00020%
United Way of Southwestern Indiana Inc$30,00030%
Christian Theological Seminary$27,5004n/a
Indiana Citizen Education Foundation Inc$20,00053%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$15,00020%
The Great American Songbook Foundation Inc$15,00031%
Easter Seals Rehabilitation Center Inc$15,00010%
Allisonville Christian Church$11,0003n/a
Spastic Paraplegia Foundation Inc$10,00011%
Indianapolis Opera Company$10,00030%
Ivy Tech Foundation Inc$10,0001n/a
Indiana State University Foundation Inc$7,50020%
United States Association for UNHCR$7,50010%
The George and Barbara Bush Foundation$5,0001n/a
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc$5,00010%
Evansville Rescue Mission Inc$5,00010%
Lampion Center Inc$3,00010%
Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc$2,50010%
University of Southern Indiana Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Indianapolis Symphonic Choir Inc$2,50010%
South Elkhorn Christian Church$2,5001n/a
Indiana Parkinson Foundation$1,00011%
Evansville Zoological Society Inc$1,00010%
Buffalo Trace Council Inc Boy Scouts of America #156$1,00010%
Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc$1,00010%
Marian University$1,00010%
International Rescue Committee INC$1,00010%
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawaii Alaska Indiana and Kentucky$1,00010%
WFYI Foundation Inc$50010%
Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana Inc$50010%
7 Sisters$5001n/a
American Cancer Society Inc$50010%
Good News Ministries Inc$3001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($457k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Niel C & Karen M Ellerbrook Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBall State University Foundation Inc: $220,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Evansville: $193,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFranklin College of Indiana: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc: $31,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Southwestern Indiana Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIndiana Citizen Education Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Great American Songbook Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEaster Seals Rehabilitation Center Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpastic Paraplegia Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetIndianapolis Opera Company: $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetIndiana State University Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEvansville Rescue Mission Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLampion Center Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAlzheimer's Foundation of America Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Southern Indiana Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndianapolis Symphonic Choir Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIndiana Parkinson Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEvansville Zoological Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBuffalo Trace Council Inc Boy Scouts of America #156: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarian University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawaii Alaska Indiana and Kentucky: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWFYI Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArts Council of Southwestern Indiana Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Lilly Endowment IncIN25.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · Community Foundation Alliance Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Koch Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third · Evansville Endowment Fund Inc · Baird Foundation Inc

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 Niel C & Karen M Ellerbrook Family Foundation Inc

How much does Niel C & Karen M Ellerbrook Family Foundation Inc give?
Niel C & Karen M Ellerbrook Family Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $131,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Niel C & Karen M Ellerbrook Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (48%), Philanthropy (16%), Health (5%).
Who are Niel C & Karen M Ellerbrook Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ball State University Foundation Inc ($220k), University of Evansville ($193k), Franklin College of Indiana ($75k).
Does Niel C & Karen M Ellerbrook Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Niel C & Karen M Ellerbrook Family 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 Niel C & Karen M Ellerbrook Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, Community Foundation Alliance Inc, The Indianapolis Foundation Inc.
Where is Niel C & Karen M Ellerbrook Family Foundation Inc based?
Niel C & Karen M Ellerbrook Family Foundation Inc is based in IN.

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 65 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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