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The Elm Foundation Inc Co Earl L Mielke Jr

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.

$561k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
21%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$250
Largest grant, FY2025
$489,322
Organizations funded a year
13 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Elm Foundation Inc Co Earl L Mielke Jr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$561k25%
FY202414$28k21%
FY202315$35k20%
FY202216$46k19%
FY202117$36k29%
FY202013$27k23%
FY201913$25k15%
FY201815$23k33%
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$490kFood & Nutrition$117kHuman Services$71kReligion$45kEducation$24kHealth$17kArts & Culture$14kYouth Development$12kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
CO
VA
MD
NM
NC
SC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Louisa County Resource Council of Louisa Virginia$116,70095%
The Hpv and Anal Cancer Foundation$10,77211%
Louisa Downtown Development Corpora$7,50071%
Lake Anna Civic Association Inc$7,22558%
Wesley Theological Seminary of the Methodist Church$7,0007n/a
St Andrews University$7,00080%
Bryannas Love Inc$5,9252n/a
Louisa County Historical Society$5,40081%
Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou$3,14071%
Pga Tour Charities Inc$1,00010%
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All grantees of The Elm Foundation Inc Co Earl L Mielke Jr by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Louisa County Resource Council of Louisa Virginia$116,70095%
The Hpv and Anal Cancer Foundation$10,77211%
Louisa Downtown Development Corpora$7,50071%
Lake Anna Civic Association Inc$7,22558%
Wesley Theological Seminary of the Methodist Church$7,0007n/a
St Andrews University$7,00080%
Bryannas Love Inc$5,9252n/a
Louisa County Historical Society$5,40081%
Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou$3,14071%
Pga Tour Charities Inc$1,00010%
East District United Methodist Women Corp$9003n/a
Fit 2 B Kids Corp$40020%
Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre$40020%
Park Valley Church Inc$2001n/a
Belmont Ruritan Club$20020%
Commonwealth Catholic Charities$20010%
Boykins Baptist Church$2001n/a
Rapidan Orchestra$2001n/a
York College of Pennsylvania$20010%
Belmont Foundation$251n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($633k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Elm Foundation Inc Co Earl L Mielke Jr supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLouisa County Resource Council of Louisa Virginia: $116,700 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetThe Hpv and Anal Cancer Foundation: $10,772 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLouisa Downtown Development Corpora: $7,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetLake Anna Civic Association Inc: $7,225 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetSt Andrews University: $7,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLouisa County Historical Society: $5,400 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetAdult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou: $3,140 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetPga Tour Charities Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFit 2 B Kids Corp: $400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRocky Mountain Repertory Theatre: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont Ruritan Club: $200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCommonwealth Catholic Charities: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYork College of Pennsylvania: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Dominion Energy Charitable FoundationVA14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About The Elm Foundation Inc Co Earl L Mielke Jr

How much does The Elm Foundation Inc Co Earl L Mielke Jr give?
The Elm Foundation Inc Co Earl L Mielke Jr reported 8 grants totaling $561,326 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Elm Foundation Inc Co Earl L Mielke Jr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (61%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Human Services (9%).
Who are The Elm Foundation Inc Co Earl L Mielke Jr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Louisa County Resource Council of Louisa Virginia ($117k), The Hpv and Anal Cancer Foundation ($11k), Louisa Downtown Development Corpora ($8k).
Does The Elm Foundation Inc Co Earl L Mielke Jr fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Elm Foundation Inc Co Earl L Mielke Jr accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Elm Foundation Inc Co Earl L Mielke Jr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, The Community Foundation Inc.
Where is The Elm Foundation Inc Co Earl L Mielke Jr based?
The Elm Foundation Inc Co Earl L Mielke Jr is based in VA.

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 40 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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