· Private foundation
The Ellen and Ian Graham Charitable Foundation U/A 12-18-2004
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $100
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION INC | $19,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ARTISTS LEGACIES | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 25% of The Ellen and Ian Graham Charitable Foundation U/A 12-18-2004’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC3× · 2021–2023 · $4.2M · revenue +37%- PBPalm Beach Civic Association Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +115%
- LSLeopold Schepp Foundation2× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $127k
- SSOARone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -58%
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +30%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The florence acadamy of art was founed in 1991 by daniel graves (see schedule o for details).
The American Academy of Sciences and Letters (AASL) promotes scholarship and honors outstanding achievement in the arts, sciences, and learned professions. It encourages the fruitful exchange of ideas within academia and society at large…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 68 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THE HSS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOAR ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLADES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION ↗
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: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ellen and Ian Graham Charitable Foundation U/A 12-18-2004 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ellen and Ian Graham Charitable Foundation U/A 12-18-2004. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 6% of income from government
- Center for Creative Education: 2% of income from government
- Hearts for Moms Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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