How much does Santa's Elves give?

Santa's Elves reported 9 itemized grants totaling $100,500, out of $169,300 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Santa's Elves fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (33%), Human Services (29%), Religion (8%).

Who are Santa's Elves's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: American Cancer Society Inc ($74k), Soteria Innovative Solutions ($35k), River Community Church Questa ($26k).

Does Santa's Elves fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 77% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Santa's Elves?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc.

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Texas · Public charity

Santa's Elves

To provide assistance to individuals who have fallen on hard times in the magnolia area. The organization utilizes the constables office in magnolia to identify potential recipiants. The organization was formed in november 2011 in response to the wildfires that caused hardship for many of the local residents.

$169k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 9
Itemized grants FY2024: 13
Organizations funded FY2023: 77%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $101k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $17,500
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 13; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 6
Total assets, FY2024: $69k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 77% of the organizations Santa's Elves funded were first-time grantees, receiving 79% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthAnimalsCommunity ImprovementReligionPhilanthropyOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	9	$101k	56%
FY2023	13	$133k	77%
FY2022	3	$37k	0%
FY2021	4	$49k	75%
FY2020	2	$30k	50%
FY2019	8	$73k	88%
FY2018	4	$27k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$147kHuman Services$129kReligion$37kRecreation & Sports$21kYouth Development$21kEducation$20kFood & Nutrition$20kCrime & Legal$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
American Cancer Society Inc	$74,046	5	0%
Soteria Innovative Solutions	$35,000	3	1%
River Community Church Questa	$25,900	2	n/a
BEVP Birds Eye View Project	$25,000	2	17%
Caring for Children Foundation of Texas Inc	$20,000	2	2%
Animum Irae Militum	$19,500	2	37%
Md Anderson Cancer Center	$17,500	1	n/a
Beyond The Burn Foundation	$17,100	2	4%
Joyride Center Inc	$15,500	2	1%
Jordans Guardian Angels	$15,000	2	1%

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All grantees of Santa's Elves by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
American Cancer Society Inc	$74,046	5	0%
Soteria Innovative Solutions	$35,000	3	1%
River Community Church Questa	$25,900	2	n/a
BEVP Birds Eye View Project	$25,000	2	17%
Caring for Children Foundation of Texas Inc	$20,000	2	2%
Animum Irae Militum	$19,500	2	37%
Md Anderson Cancer Center	$17,500	1	n/a
Beyond The Burn Foundation	$17,100	2	4%
Joyride Center Inc	$15,500	2	1%
Jordans Guardian Angels	$15,000	2	1%
Clutch City Foundation	$15,000	1	1%
East-West Ministries International	$11,400	1	n/a
Cypress Fairbanks Lacrosse Association	$10,000	1	n/a
The Special Forces Charitable Trust	$10,000	1	0%
Adult and Teen Challenge of Texas	$10,000	1	0%
Montgomery County Food Bank Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Running 4 Heroes Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Breakthrough T1d	$10,000	1	0%
Magnolia Education Foundation	$10,000	1	4%
Society of Samaritans Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Abandoned Animal Rescue	$10,000	1	2%
Magnolia Isd	$10,000	1	n/a
Shattered Lives	$10,000	1	n/a
Kids' Meals Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Sheep Dog Impact Assistance	$9,000	1	0%
DTCare	$7,000	1	0%
Ican Improving Chandler Area Neighborhoods	$6,000	1	0%
76 Lacrosse Inc	$6,000	1	2%
Magnolia Lacrosse Association	$5,000	1	n/a
Operation Military Embrace Inc	$5,000	1	n/a

Santa's Elves supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 22.

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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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX12.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Santa's Elves

How much does Santa's Elves give?: Santa's Elves reported 9 itemized grants totaling $100,500, out of $169,300 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Santa's Elves fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (33%), Human Services (29%), Religion (8%).
Who are Santa's Elves's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: American Cancer Society Inc ($74k), Soteria Innovative Solutions ($35k), River Community Church Questa ($26k).
Does Santa's Elves fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 77% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Santa's Elves?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc.
Where is Santa's Elves based?: Santa's Elves is based in TX.