Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Elder 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.
- $27k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 25
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $618k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Elder Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $16k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $15k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $17k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $15k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $13k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $13k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| River City Brass Band Inc | $7,030 | 7 | 0% |
| Wqed Multimedia | $4,860 | 7 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Pittsburgh | $2,860 | 7 | 0% |
| The Next Step Center Inc | $2,700 | 7 | 0% |
| Laurel Arts Inc | $2,700 | 7 | 0% |
| The Learning Lamp Inc | $2,700 | 7 | 0% |
| The Mountain Playhouse | $1,570 | 4 | 0% |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $1,360 | 2 | 0% |
| Visability | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Camp Soles Inc | $1,130 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| River City Brass Band Inc | $7,030 | 7 | 0% |
| Wqed Multimedia | $4,860 | 7 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Pittsburgh | $2,860 | 7 | 0% |
| The Next Step Center Inc | $2,700 | 7 | 0% |
| Laurel Arts Inc | $2,700 | 7 | 0% |
| The Learning Lamp Inc | $2,700 | 7 | 0% |
| The Mountain Playhouse | $1,570 | 4 | 0% |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $1,360 | 2 | 0% |
| Visability | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Camp Soles Inc | $1,130 | 3 | 0% |
| Zip With US Inc | $1,130 | 3 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($74k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Elder 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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Elder Foundation
- How much does The Elder Foundation give?
- The Elder Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $27,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Elder Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (43%), Health (19%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are The Elder Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: River City Brass Band Inc ($7k), Wqed Multimedia ($5k), Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Pittsburgh ($3k).
- Does The Elder Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Elder 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 Elder Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Elder Foundation based?
- The Elder Foundation is based in PA.
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