· Private foundation
The Jim and Billie Ellis Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WELLSPRING LIVING | $300,000 |
| MY BROTHER'S KEEPER | $225,000 |
| ATLANTA MISSION | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $127,000 |
| EAGLE RANCH | $125,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| NORTH GWINNETT CO-OP | $100,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $100,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $100,000 |
| HOME REPAIRS MINISTRIES | $75,000 |
| PANTRY AT HAMILTON MILL | $58,500 |
| FAMILIES 4 FAMILIES | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FRIENDSHIP INC | $50,000 |
| RAINBOW VILLAGE | $50,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $416k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WLWellspring Living Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +78%
- AUATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $900k · revenue +21%
EAGLE RANCH INC8× · 2017–2025 · $705k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- LELETTUM EAT INCone grant, 2024 · $65k · revenue 0% · 27% of their budget
- GHGWINNETT HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k
- IWI WILL SURVIVE INCone grant, 2018 · $26k · revenue -28%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of Intown Cares is to prevent and reverse homelessness and hunger in Intown Atlanta. We envision a thriving community equipped to provide prompt and effective support for those experiencing homelessness and hunger. Our work is…
Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.
Rebuilding lives in christ - we are a faith-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that shelters homeless men and provides them with food, clothing and life-skills training. the mission provides the assistance to them at no cost and we…
Provide spiritual encouragement to men and women in the workplace.
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…
Providing showers, clothing and a meal for the homeless population in and around atlanta.
The organization provides food, clothing, household goods, and financial assistance to individuals and families in need who reside in the Lilburn, Stone Mountain, and Tucker areas of Gwinnett County, Georgia
Providing food & shelter to the homeless and transitioning the homeless toward permanent independence in housing.
Atlfamilymeal inc.'s mission is to feed, nourish and support hospitality workers and their families experiencing hunger and joblessness in the metro atlanta community.
To provide food, clothing, and shelter to homeless and abandoned individuals and families
Provide supportive services for the working poor and homeless population in the middle georgia area
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Smasherson 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 23 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) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Wellspring Living Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSN IN IRC INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds NORTH GWINNETT COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FRIENDSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHRISTIAN MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE Inc Helping Other People be Empowered ↗
- Who funds THE MAILBOX CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds HOME REPAIRS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LETTUM EAT INC ↗
- Who funds The Pantry at Hamilton Mill Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES 4 FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds KWM WORLD OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds HOSEA FEED THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Lift Up Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds I WILL SURVIVE INC ↗
- Who funds TURNER FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Waffle House Foundation Inc · Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation Inc · Jackson Emc Foundation Inc Attn Amy Rouse
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 organization The Jim and Billie Ellis Foundation Inc 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.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.