Connecticut · Private foundation
The Alec and Tamar Ellison Family 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.
- $55k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 4
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $411k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Alec and Tamar Ellison Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 4 | $55k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $25k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $49k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $16k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $35k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $51k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $87k | 0% |
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robin Hood Foundation | $93,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Yale University | $72,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Uja Federation of Greenwich Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| National Jewish Outreach Program In | $50,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Addlestone Hebrew Academy | $12,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chabad Lubavitch of Greenwich Inc | $8,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Greenwich Academy Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($99k), not named here.
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Alec and Tamar Ellison Family Foundation
- How much does The Alec and Tamar Ellison Family Foundation give?
- The Alec and Tamar Ellison Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $55,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Alec and Tamar Ellison Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (36%), Education (24%), Arts & Culture (20%).
- Who are The Alec and Tamar Ellison Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Robin Hood Foundation ($93k), Yale University ($73k), Uja Federation of Greenwich Inc ($60k).
- Does The Alec and Tamar Ellison Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Alec and Tamar Ellison Family Foundation 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 The Alec and Tamar Ellison Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Alec and Tamar Ellison Family Foundation based?
- The Alec and Tamar Ellison Family Foundation is based in CT.
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