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The Elliot and Eleanor Foundation at a glance

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The Elliot and Eleanor 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.

$441k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$145k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$700kHealth$608kEducation$556kArts & Culture$413kYouth Development$238kEnvironment$172kPublic Benefit$10kAnimals$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $420k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$145,000
TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATOR COMPANY$125,000
CHARLESTON JAZZ$100,000
OUTREACH FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS$50,000
PURE THEATRE$15,000
ARTS - ETC$2,500
CHARLESTON LIBRARY SOCIETY$2,500
THE JED FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OUTREACH FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS: $50k → 6%THE JED FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%CHARLESTON JAZZ: $54k → 9%CHARLESTON LIBRARY SOCIETY: $5k → 12%SC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT (SCELP): $40k → 15%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%THE JED FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%CHARLESTON JAZZ: $22k → 9%CHARLESTON LIBRARY SOCIETY: $3k → 12%SC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT (SCELP): $6k → 15%THE JED FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%CHARLESTON JAZZ: $10k → 9%MUSC FOUNDATION: $500k → 12%SC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT (SCELP): $5k → 15%THE JED FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%CHARLESTON JAZZ: $9k → 9%SOUTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM: $2k → 12%SC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT (SCELP): $5k → 15%THE JED FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%CHARLESTON JAZZ: $4k → 9%THE TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATOR COMPANY (TAC): $325k → 12%SC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT (SCELP): $50k → 15%THE JED FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%CHARLESTON JAZZ: $3k → 9%SOUTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM: $1k → 12%SC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT (SCELP): $50k → 15%TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATOR COMPANY: $250k → 12%SC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT (SCELP): $5k → 15%TAC: $238k → 12%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (MUSC): $200k → 12%TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATOR COMPANY: $125k → 12%PRESERVE KIAWAH INC: $10k → 12%KIAWAH WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%ARTS - ETC: $3k → 12%PALMETTO PROJECT: $3k → 12%PALMETTO PROJECT (BEGIN WITH BOOKS): $3k → 12%PALMETTO PROJECT: $3k → 12%PALMETTO PROJECT: $3k → 12%PALMETTO PROJECT: $2k → 12%LOW COUNTRY FOOD BANK: $3k → 12%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION (HALSEY INSTITUTE): $3k → 12%LOWCOUNTRY CENTER FOR VETERANS RESEARCH: $50k → 12%PURE THEATRE: $15k → 12%PURE THEATRE: $15k → 12%PURE THEATRE: $15k → 12%CHARLESTON JAZZ: $100k → 12%CHARLESTON JAZZ: $79k → 12%CHARLESTON JAZZ: $75k → 12%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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 10 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
16

Total granted

$1.3M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+43%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CJ
    Charleston Jazz
    9× · 2017–2025 · $357k · revenue +64%
  • TJ
    THE JED FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +429%
  • PT
    Pure Theatre
    3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • MF
    MUSC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • TT
    THE TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATOR COMPANY
    one grant, 2021 · $325k
  • T
    TAC
    one grant, 2019 · $238k
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
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
2
Scbio

Scbio is a member organization that exists to support and advance the south carolina life sciences industry through collaboration, economic development initiaties, advocacy, workforce development, enhanced purchasing power and education.…

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3
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
4
The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture
5
Charleston Wine & Food Festival

Charleston Wine + Food is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports Charleston and the Lowcountry's diverse culinary + hospitality community. The organization champions the region's unique foodways 365 days a year through…

Food & Nutrition
6
Community Foundation of the Lowcountry

The Community Foundation's mission is strengthening community by connecting people, resources, and needs.

Philanthropy
7
South Carolina Research Foundation

the south carolina research foundation operates for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of, the university of south carolina. These activities include but are not limited to promoting, encouraging, and aiding scientific research…

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8
Charleston Literary Festival Inc

Charleston Literary Festival, Inc. produces a curated, annual program of events with a distinctly international flavor in the historic setting of Charleston, South Carolina. It brings together world class authors and speakers on a variety…

Arts & Culture
9
Cfa Society South Carolina

CFA Society South Carolina promotes the highest ethical standards and professional excellence within the local investment community. CFA Society South Carolina is an association of local investment professionals, consisting of portfolio…

Employment
10
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
11
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
12
J Walter Juckett Cancer Research Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College of Charleston Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Pure Theatre. 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

18 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. 18 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSC FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherMUSC FOUNDATIONTHE TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATOR COMPANY (TAC): $325,000 · OtherTHE TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATOR COMPANY (TAC)TAC: $238,000 · OtherTACMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (MUSC): $200,000 · OtherMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (MUSC)SC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT (SCELP): $161,000 · OtherSC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT (SCELP)+8 more: $36,760 · OtherTHE TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATOR COMPANY: $375,000 · HealthTHE TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATOR COMPA…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $295,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCTHE JED FOUNDATION: $59,500 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDATIONLOWCOUNTRY CENTER FOR VETERANS RESEARCH: $50,000 · HealthLOWCOUNTRY CENTER FOR VETERANS R…+2 more: $3,000 · HealthCharleston Jazz: $356,600 · Arts & CultureCharleston JazzPure Theatre: $45,000 · Arts & CulturePure Theatre+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureOUTREACH FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS: $50,000 · EducationKIAWAH WOMENS FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationSouth Carolina Aquarium: $7,000 · AnimalsThe Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc: $1,000 · EnvironmentST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$1,460,760Health$782,500Arts & Culture$404,100Education$54,500Animals$7,000Environment$1,000Philanthropy$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATOR COMPANY: $375,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetCharleston Jazz: $356,600 over 9y, 5.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $295,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $59,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY CENTER FOR VETERANS RESEARCH: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOUTREACH FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS: $50,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetPure Theatre: $45,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPALMETTO PROJECT INC: $10,160 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCharleston Library Society: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS ETC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoper St Francis Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 THE TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATOR COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds Charleston Jazz ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY CENTER FOR VETERANS RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds OUTREACH FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS ↗
  • Who funds Pure Theatre ↗
  • Who funds PALMETTO PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Charleston Library Society ↗
  • Who funds South Carolina Aquarium ↗
  • Who funds KIAWAH WOMENS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS ETC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Roper St Francis Foundation ↗

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.

Coastal Community Fou…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…Gaylord and Dorothy D…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Elliot and Eleanor Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Elliot and Eleanor Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Elliot and Eleanor Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Elliot and Eleanor Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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