How much did THE JIM AND BILLIE ELLIS FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of THE JIM AND BILLIE ELLIS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

evangelistic

2020

evangelistic

2021

youthoutreachevangelistic

2022

christianevangelistic

2023

—

2024

christian

2025

christiangeneralgeneral

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $32k
$10k–50k7 grants · $150k
$50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
$250k+1 grant · $300k

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

WELLSPRING LIVING$300,000
MY BROTHER'S KEEPER$225,000
ATLANTA MISSION$150,000
GA FIRE FIGHTERS$127,000
EAGLE RANCH$125,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE MINISTRIES$100,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$100,000
NORTH GWINNETT CO-OP$100,000
SALVATION ARMY$100,000
HOME REPAIRS MINISTRIES$75,000
PANTRY AT HAMILTON MILL$58,500
FAMILIES 4 FAMILIES$50,000
RAINBOW VILLAGE$50,000
GMC FOUNDATION$50,000
COMMUNITY FRIENDSHIP INC$50,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 52% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.0M · 32 repeat orgs$666k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.0M

$251k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%

-10%

Still filing today

38%

27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $416k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

WL
WELLSPRING LIVING
7× · 2018–2025 · $900k · revenue +78%
EAGLE RANCH
7× · 2018–2025 · $655k · revenue +37%
RV
RAINBOW VILLAGE
2× · 2018–2025 · $100k · revenue +249%

Funded once

LE
LETTUM EAT
one grant, 2024 · $65k · revenue -48% · 27% of their budget
MH
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN INDIAN RIVER COUNTRY
one grant, 2021 · $50k
GH
GWINNETT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Intown Collaborative Ministries Inc

To prevent and reverse homelessness and hunger in Intown Atlanta.

Human Services

Trinity Community Ministries Inc

Help homeless men regain control of their lives and return to their communities as mentors and leaders.

Housing & Shelter

Come to Him Ministries

To help the hungry, homeless, and the destitute receive a second chance in life by providing food, clothing, and shelter and transition them into a christ centered lifestyle.

Health

Cumming Home Ministries Inc

Support and sponsor those experiencing hopelessness and homelessness, through residential rehabilitation, recovery and treatment programs, Christian-based spiritual mentopring and counseling, life skills training and resources infused with…

Housing & Shelter

Marketplace Leaders Ministries Inc

Provide spiritual encouragement to men and women in the workplace.

Religion

Chosen 300 Ministries Inc

Outreach program to the homeless

Religion

Sonshine Ministries

Providing food clothing and shelter to individuals in life crisis situations

—

Common Grace Ministries Inc

Christ centered ministry that provides food, rent, utility and medicine support for local individuals who are in need.

Religion

United Community Ministries Inc

Providing food & shelter to the homeless and transitioning the homeless toward permanent independence in housing.

Human Services

A Christian Food Pantry Inc

Serve food to families and individuals in need.

—

Hope Alive Inc

Christ-based ministry with the mission of bringing hope and encouragement with christ-like love to emotionally hurting people through mental health counseling and transitional housing for homeless women with a mental illness.

—

Flourish Ministries Inc

To help individuals and couples live better lives by understanding, repairing, rebuilding, improving, and strengthening their relationship with God and others.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crossroads Community Ministries in and the most unlike its peers is Wellspring Living Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/24

the rest of the field

18%

4,752/27,105

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/20

Grantees still filing

14/20

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$7,185,900Religion$1,115,000Health$876,000Human Services$134,000Food & Nutrition$123,500Housing & Shelter$100,000Education$83,341

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation for GreaterGA21.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation THE JIM AND BILLIE ELLIS FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LETTUM EAT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 843190385 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LETTUM EAT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 27% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to The Jim and Billie Ellis Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE JIM AND BILLIE ELLIS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Jim and Billie Ellis Foundation?

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THE JIM AND BILLIE ELLIS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Jim and Billie Ellis Foundation?

More from the funding graph