Missouri · Private foundation
The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $338k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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 | 22 | $338k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $345k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $356k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $383k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $291k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $355k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $350k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $365k | 46% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Ballet Association | $720,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs | $240,000 | 4 | 2% |
| National Wwi Museum and Memorial | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Kansas City Young Audiences Inc | $122,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Kansas School of Classical Ballet Inc | $100,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Kansas City Actors Theatre Inc | $90,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Park University | $67,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Unicorn Theatre | $60,000 | 4 | 2% |
| National Museum of Toys and Miniatures | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Lyric Opera of Kansas City Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis 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: The Francis Family Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas City · The H & R Block Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The Sunderland Foundation · Copaken Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis Foundation
- How much does The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis Foundation give?
- The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $337,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (79%), Education (12%), Community Improvement (2%).
- Who are The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kansas City Ballet Association ($720k), The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs ($240k), National Wwi Museum and Memorial ($200k).
- Does The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Francis Family Foundation, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation.
- Where is The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis Foundation based?
- The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis Foundation is based in MO.
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