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The Elliot Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.7M
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Education$3.6MArts & Culture$405kHealth$91kHuman Services$89kYouth Development$15kPhilanthropy$10kReligion$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$100Other$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $58k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $323k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.7M
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,747,813
UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON$202,500
WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$70,000
THE CLAY CENTER$50,000
CAMC FOUNDATION$47,667
YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
YWCA CHARLESTON$3,000
SAINT CHRISTOPHER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$3,000
WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY$2,000
DEEP CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$100
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY: $10k → 18%YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY: $10k → 18%YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY: $10k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 8 repeat orgs$270k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$4.0M
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
-8%

Still filing today

50%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • KS
    KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +5%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $728k · revenue +10%
  • CF
    CAMC FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $91k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • LF
    LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -74%
  • BC
    BUCKSKIN COUNCIL BSA
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • ST
    SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -5%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
West Virginia Wesleyan College

West virginia wesleyan college challenges its students to a life-long commitment to develop their intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and leadership potential and to set and uphold standards of excellence. firmly rooted in the liberal arts…

Education
2
West Virginia Symphony Orchestra Foundation Inc

The west virginia symphony orchestra foundation, inc (the foundation) is a supporting organization, incorporated solely to provide financial support to the west virginia symphony orchestra, inc. the foundation was established to manage…

Arts & Culture
3
West Virginia University Foundation Inc

The mission of the WVU Foundation is to enrich the lives of those touched by West Virginia University by maximizing charitable support and providing services to the University, its students and affiliated organizations.

Education
4
West Virginia Independent Colleges and Universities Inc

The mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.

Education
5
Kenyon College

Kenyon college is a private liberal arts educational institution with approximately 1,800 students and 200 professors. the college has 18 departments and 13 interdisciplinary programs.

Education
6
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education
7
Kansas Wesleyan University Foundation

The foundation is organized to secure gifts of money or property in efforts of advancing education and/or research; therefore, providing assistance in furthering the mission of kansas wesleyan university.

Education
8
The Richmond Symphony

The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.

Arts & Culture
9
Kentucky College of Art Design

The kentucky college of art and design opens the door to a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.

Education
10
West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine Foundation Incorporated

See schedule o for a complete description of the foundation's mission

11
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
12
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Ymca of Kanawha Valley Inc. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,750,313 · EducationKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC — $728,293 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC+1 more — $2,000 · EducationWVSO FOUNDATION — $320,000 · OtherWVSO FOUNDAT…THE CLAY CENTER — $50,000 · OtherTHE CLAY CEN…Individual grant recipient — $26,000 · OtherIndividual g…+10 more — $71,850 · Other+10 moreLIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyCAMC FOUNDATION INC — $91,000 · HealthWEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $70,000 · Arts & CultureYMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC — $30,000 · Human Services
Education$3,480,606Other$467,850Philanthropy$100,000Health$91,000Arts & Culture$70,000Human Services$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,750,313 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC — $728,293 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCAMC FOUNDATION INC — $91,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $70,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetYMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR THE ARTS — $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC
  • Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY INC
  • Who funds CAMC FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC
  • Who funds SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS
  • Who funds WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Greater Kanawha Valley FoundationWV19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · The Strong-Treister Family Foundation · Tgkvf Inc · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Herscher Foundation Inc · Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation · The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Elliot Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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