Minnesota · Private foundation
The Ellis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $151k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $61,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Ellis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $151k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $90k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $381k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $133k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $149k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $221k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Community Action Network | $310,000 | 3 | 9% |
| 350 Seattle | $113,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Urban Sparks | $105,000 | 5 | 40% |
| Firelands Workers United | $75,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Got Green | $55,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Puget Sound Sage | $50,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project | $30,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Homestead Community Land Trust | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Solid Ground Washington | $19,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bainbridge Performing Arts | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($170k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ellis Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Lucky Seven Foundation · Artsfund · Medina Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · United Way of King County
How this is measured
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About The Ellis Foundation
- How much does The Ellis Foundation give?
- The Ellis Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $151,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Ellis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (33%), Environment (15%), Community Improvement (9%).
- Who are The Ellis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Washington Community Action Network ($310k), 350 Seattle ($113k), Urban Sparks ($105k).
- Does The Ellis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ellis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ellis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Inatai Foundation.
- Where is The Ellis Foundation based?
- The Ellis Foundation is based in MN.
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