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The Elliott Family Private Foundation at a glance

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The Elliott Family Private 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.

$64k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

International$155kYouth Development$55kReligion$54kAnimals$8k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$759k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEALING WATERS INTERNATIONAL INC$50,000
MAX MCGRAW WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$7,500
TRAIN INTERNATIONAL$5,000
COLLEGE AND CAREER MINISTRIES$1,500
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%DESERT SPRINGS BIBLE CHURCH: $10k → 11%DALLAS WILLARD MINISTRIES: $5k → 14%SOUL PRINT INCORPORATED: $7k → 5%YOUNG LIFE: $5k → 16%LAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%HEALING WATERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $75k → 7%HEALING WATERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $50k → 12%MAX MCGRAW WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ECCLESIAL THEOLOGY: $15k → 14%YOUNG LIFE: $25k → 16%HEALING WATERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $15k → 7%SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ECCLESIAL THEOLOGY: $5k → 14%YOUNG LIFE: $10k → 16%YOUNG LIFE: $5k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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WI
CA
CO
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AZ
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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of The Elliott Family Private Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Elliott Family Private Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$230k · 4 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$230k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • HW
    HEALING WATERS INTERNATIONAL INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $140k · revenue +12%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    4× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +38%
  • TS
    THE SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ECCLESIAL THEOLOGY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue -8%

Funded once

  • DS
    DESERT SPRINGS BIBLE CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • LG
    LAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +5%
  • SP
    SOUL PRINT INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
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.

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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
2
Raise Up Global Ministries

Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…

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3
Board of Camp and Retreat Ministries Or/Id Conference United Methodist Church

See schedule o. we serve individuals, families, educational institutions, religiously affiliated groups, social service agencies, community service organizations, and other nonprofit organizations that enrich life in the world. we are a…

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4
Partners in Development Worldwide

Train ministers, lay people and students who are involved at any level of ministry in small or large churches at local, national, and international levels. We train to go into the world and spread the gospel by helping people meet their…

International
5
Gull Lake Ministries

Gull lake ministries provides bible based, christian retreats year-round for families, churches and organizations where we exalt jesus and share his truth.

Religion
6
Missions Development International

MDI provides ministry leaders with high-caliber mentoring and innovative content to unleash their God-given potential.

International
7
Crossing Cultures International Inc

Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.

Religion
8
Leadership Revolution Inc

Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.

Religion
9
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
10
Cedar Lake Ministries

Cedar lake ministries exist to provide a life changing environment for evangelism and spiritual growth.

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11
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
12
Developing Workers Global Inc

Developing workers exists to care for and equip ministry leaders to inspire disciple-making movements with lasting impact. we are empowering leaders, impacting generations.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 10 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEALING WATERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $140,000 · InternationalHEALING WATERS INTERNATIONAL INCYOUNG LIFE: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFETHE SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ECCLESIAL THEOLOGY: $20,000 · ReligionTHE SOCIETY FOR THE A…TRAIN INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 · ReligionTRAIN INTERNATIONALLAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · ReligionLAKE GENEVA FOUNDATIO…Dallas Willard Ministries: $5,000 · ReligionDallas Willard Minist…+1 more: $1,500 · ReligionDESERT SPRINGS BIBLE CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherDESERT SPR…Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation: $7,500 · OtherMax McGraw…SOUL PRINT INCORPORATED: $7,000 · OtherSOUL PRINT…
International$140,000Youth Development$55,000Religion$51,500Other$24,500

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 budgetHEALING WATERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $140,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ECCLESIAL THEOLOGY: $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTRAIN INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetLAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMax McGraw Wildlife Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Willard Ministries: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOLLEGE & CAREER MINISTRIES INC DBA THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA12.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Elliott Family Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Elliott Family Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 10 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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