Texas · Private foundation
The Ellwood Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 2%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 65 to 67
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $44M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 2% of the organizations The Ellwood Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 67 | $2.9M | 3% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $2.7M | 2% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $2.8M | 2% |
| FY2022 | 66 | $2.7M | 2% |
| FY2021 | 67 | $2.5M | 1% |
| FY2020 | 66 | $2.4M | 21% |
| FY2018 | 66 | $2.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Brookwood Community Inc | $1,095,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Briarwood School | $620,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Pursuit Foundation | $545,000 | 6 | 16% |
| The Hub Houston Inc | $460,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Marbridge Foundation Inc | $425,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Child Advocates Inc | $415,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Goodwill Industries of Houston | $400,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Yellowstone Academy Inc Dba Yellowstone Schools | $390,000 | 7 | 1% |
| TIRR Foundation | $370,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Houston Area Parkinson Society | $345,000 | 7 | 4% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ellwood Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Brown Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Ellwood Foundation
- How much does The Ellwood Foundation give?
- The Ellwood Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $2,850,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 65 and 67 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Ellwood Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (38%), Education (26%), Human Services (18%).
- Who are The Ellwood Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Brookwood Community Inc ($1.1M), The Briarwood School ($620k), Pursuit Foundation ($545k).
- Does The Ellwood Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ellwood Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ellwood Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Strake Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Ellwood Foundation based?
- The Ellwood Foundation is based in TX.
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