Massachusetts · Private foundation
Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $981k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $97,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 55
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $299k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 60 | $981k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $923k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $819k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $1.0M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $946k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $752k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $904k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 55 | $951k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of Clark University | $689,400 | 8 | 0% |
| Worcester Art Museum | $353,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Worcester Natural History Society Inc | $326,250 | 8 | 4% |
| United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc | $308,500 | 8 | 1% |
| American Antiquarian Society | $227,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Assumption University | $207,750 | 7 | 0% |
| The Bottom Line Inc | $195,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Centro Las Americas Inc | $180,000 | 6 | 0% |
| McPhs University | $160,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bancroft School | $143,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Webster Five Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · The George I Alden Trust · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Wyman Gordon · Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation
- How much does Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation give?
- Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $980,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Arts & Culture (13%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Trustees of Clark University ($689k), Worcester Art Museum ($354k), Worcester Natural History Society Inc ($326k).
- Does Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc, The Fletcher Foundation, Stoddard Charitable Trust.
- Where is Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation based?
- Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation is based in MA.
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