· Private foundation
The Ellis Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Appalachian Service Project | $10,000 |
| Al's Angels | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| SHADOW WOOD CHARITABLE | $1,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Petaluma Educational Foundatn | $300 |
| ST MATTHEWS HOUSE | $300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ASAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +88%
- AAALS ANGELS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +10%
- SMST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +205%
Funded once
- TCTRINITY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $2k
- MFMETPGA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k
- TAThe Angel Charitable Corporationone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +14%
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.
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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How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALS ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PETALUMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
- Who funds The Angel Charitable Corporation ↗
- Who funds KAITLYN'S COTTAGE INC ↗
- Who funds PEO Foundation ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds CLASP HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds KERRY'S KIDS ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ellis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ellis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Clasp Homes Inc: 91% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
How this is measured
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