Idaho · Private foundation
The Emelco 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.
- $333k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $23,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Emelco Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 20 | $313k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $269k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $294k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $304k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $258k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $252k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $249k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $242k | 18% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samaritan's Purse | $197,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us | $176,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Westmont College | $133,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Zoe International | $132,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Lutherhaven Ministries Inc | $130,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Mission Aviation Fellowship | $115,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Inland Northwest Land Trust | $113,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Love Inc Kootenai County | $108,000 | 7 | 19% |
| International Justice Mission | $108,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Union Gospel Mission Association of Spokane | $96,000 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($374k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Emelco Foundation supplied at peak.
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: Innovia Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Avista Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · United Way of Spokane County · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About The Emelco Foundation
- How much does The Emelco Foundation give?
- The Emelco Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $333,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Emelco Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (38%), Religion (23%), Education (9%).
- Who are The Emelco Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Samaritan's Purse ($198k), Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us ($177k), Westmont College ($133k).
- Does The Emelco Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Emelco 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 Emelco Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Innovia Foundation, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, The Avista Foundation.
- Where is The Emelco Foundation based?
- The Emelco Foundation is based in ID.
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