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The Ellenwood Foundation at a glance

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The Ellenwood Foundation

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.

$175k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0176% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$186kCrime & Legal$125kHousing & Shelter$110kReligion$50kYouth Development$50kHealth$30kFood & Nutrition$25kInternational$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MODESTO GOSPEL MISSION$100,000
YOUTH FOR CHRIST$50,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ACRES OF LOVE: $64k → 10%ACRES OF LOVE INC: $20k → 10%ACRES OF LOVE: $17k → 10%CAMBRIDGE ACADEMIES: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$511k · 6 repeat orgs$260k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

$511k
$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+121%

Still filing today

33%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SF
    STANISLAUS FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER
    4× · 2018–2023 · $125k
  • MG
    MODESTO GOSPEL MISSION
    2× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +79%
  • AO
    ACRES OF LOVE
    3× · 2018–2021 · $101k · revenue -18%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY MODESTO RED SHIELD CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • BG
    BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
2
St Lukes Family Medical Group a Special Purpose Corp

A general practice medical clinical providing medical services to individuals and families in modesto who do not qualify for any other free government health care programs and have no health insurance and cannot afford to pay for their…

Health
3
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
4
Kingdom Advisors Inc

Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…

Religion
5
Inland Valley Drug & Alcohol Recovery Services Inc

Inspiring hope, reuniting families, healing lives impacted by addiction.

Health
6
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
7
Crossroads Christian Counseling

Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.

Human Services
8
Chinese Gospel Broadcasting Center Inc

Religious broadcasting services to involve christians in professional and media fields to join force in the production of gospel programs for radio and

Arts & Culture
9
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
10
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
11
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
12
Goodwill Industries of the Valley Works

Goodwill's mission is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and inspire communities through job skills training and work placement opportunities with a multi-generational approach focused on removing barriers.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Modesto Gospel Mission; the most unlike its peers is St Lukes Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STANISLAUS FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $125,000 · OtherSTANISLAUS FAMILY JUSTICE CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SALVATION ARMY: $35,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTHE SALVATION ARMY MODESTO RED SHIELD CENTER: $25,000 · OtherBILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherTHE REDWOOD FAMILY CENTER: $25,000 · Other+4 more: $45,000 · Other+4 moreMODESTO GOSPEL MISSION: $110,000 · Housing & ShelterMODESTO GOSPEL MIS…VALLEY RECOVERY RESOURCES: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterVALLEY RECOVERY RE…ACRES OF LOVE: $100,724 · Human ServicesACRES OF LOVECAMBRIDGE ACADEMIES: $10,000 · Human ServicesCAMBRIDGE ACADE…FresnoMadera Youth For Christ Inc: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONVOY OF HOPE: $25,000 · InternationalST LUKES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$470,000Housing & Shelter$130,000Human Services$110,724Youth Development$50,000International$25,000Health$10,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMODESTO GOSPEL MISSION: $110,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetACRES OF LOVE: $100,724 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetFresnoMadera Youth For Christ Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY RECOVERY RESOURCES: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetST LUKES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE ACADEMIES: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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 MODESTO GOSPEL MISSION ↗
  • Who funds ACRES OF LOVE ↗
  • Who funds FresnoMadera Youth For Christ Inc ↗
  • Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY RECOVERY RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKES FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE ACADEMIES ↗

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.

Stanislaus Community …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Stanislaus Community FoundationCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stanislaus Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Ellenwood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ellenwood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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