Connecticut · Private foundation
The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $202k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 21 | $194k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $173k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $173k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $203k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $177k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $177k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $183k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $171k | 73% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partners for Sustainable Healthy Communities Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 17% |
| Northville Volunteer Fire Department | $50,200 | 3 | 7% |
| University of the Cumberlands Inc | $46,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 2% |
| After School Arts Program Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Mvp Sos Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 49% |
| Regional Young Men's Christian Association of Western Connecticut Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| New Milford Historical Society Inc | $24,400 | 3 | 10% |
| Ripley Inc | $24,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Susan B Anthony Project Inc | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($827k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Connecticut Community Foundation · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · The Kestrel Foundation · Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Diebold Foundation Inc · Albert and Helen Meserve Mem Fund · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation with peer funders
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About The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation
- How much does The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation give?
- The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $202,110 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Human Services (20%), Environment (9%).
- Who are The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Partners for Sustainable Healthy Communities Inc ($70k), Northville Volunteer Fire Department ($50k), University of the Cumberlands Inc ($46k).
- Does The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Connecticut Community Foundation, Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc, Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation based?
- The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation is based in CT.
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