· Private foundation
Robert and Elizabeth Ellis Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIDGEFIELD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC | $10,000 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD5× · 2018–2022 · $240k · revenue +86%
- TRTHE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC4× · 2018–2022 · $160k · revenue +17%
- RLRidgefield Library Association Inc3× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- RPRIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES & PERFORMING ARTSone grant, 2019 · $55k
- RVRIDGEFIELD VETERANS' MEMORIAL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +92%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
To provide preschool education for children ages 2-5.
To receive and administer grants, gifts, donations and bequests in a manner designed to promote the activities of richfield living and ridgecrest at richfield.
Museum
The mission of ridgefield chamber of commerce is to promote the economic vitality of the town of ridgefield ct through member engagement, hospitality.
Support civic activities in the town of ridgefield, ct
The foundation will develop a basis of perpetual financial support to ensure that the library will always provide outstanding information, education, and culture in a user-friendly, state of the art facility.
Rivermead is a progressive not-for-profit continuing care retirement community that advocates for an enriched lifestyle with cultural and educational opportunities. continued on schedule "o".we continuously strive to provide high-quality,…
Ridgefield Main Street is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of downtown Ridgefield, while advocating advocating for its future through economic development, community events, public and private…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ridgefield Library Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD ↗
- Who funds THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Ridgefield Library Association Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds KEELER TAVERN ↗
- Who funds RVNAHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Founders Hall Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIDGEFIELD VETERANS' MEMORIAL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc · Patrick Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Barker Welfare Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Elizabeth Murray Ellis Family Foundation · Taylor-Zemo Foundation Inc · Anne S Richardson Fund Xxxxx3004 · The Goldstone Family Foundation · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc
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 organization Robert and Elizabeth Ellis Family 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.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Rvnahealth Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.