Virginia · Private foundation
The Elmo 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.
- $664k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 58
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 21
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations The Elmo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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 | 50 | $649k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $607k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $617k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $551k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 58 | $740k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $665k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $599k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $553k | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlottesville Free Clinic | $250,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Virginia Organizing Inc | $212,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Piedmont Casa Inc | $170,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Strongminds Inc | $160,000 | 8 | 1% |
| School Justice Project Inc | $130,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Nyaya Health | $120,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Build Change | $100,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Last Mile Health | $90,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ecoaddendum Inc | $87,000 | 5 | 15% |
| Open City Advocates | $85,000 | 9 | 3% |
Show all 88 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Elmo Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 80 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Oak Hill Fund · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Paul Bechtner Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Westwind Foundation · The Energy Foundation · The Partnership Project Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
How this is measured
About The Elmo Foundation
- How much does The Elmo Foundation give?
- The Elmo Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $663,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Elmo Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (24%), Health (19%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
- Who are The Elmo Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Charlottesville Free Clinic ($250k), Virginia Organizing Inc ($213k), Piedmont Casa Inc ($170k).
- Does The Elmo Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Elmo Foundation 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 Elmo Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oak Hill Fund, Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, United States Energy Foundation.
- Where is The Elmo Foundation based?
- The Elmo Foundation is based in VA.
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