Georgia · 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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Jim and Billie Ellis Foundation Inc 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; $144k 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 | 29 | $1.9M | 24% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $1.1M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $918k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $1.0M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $1.2M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $1.2M | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellspring Living Inc | $1,050,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Atlanta Union Mission Corporation | $900,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Eagle Ranch Inc | $705,000 | 8 | 2% |
| The Salvation Army | $575,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Mental Health Assn in Irc Inc | $500,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Emory University | $350,000 | 3 | 0% |
| North Gwinnett Cooperative Inc | $270,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Community Friendship Inc | $220,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Rainbow Village Inc | $200,000 | 3 | 5% |
| American Caribbean Experience Inc | $165,000 | 5 | 4% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Jim and Billie Ellis Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
Compare The Jim and Billie Ellis Foundation Inc with peer funders
About The Jim and Billie Ellis Foundation Inc
- How much does The Jim and Billie Ellis Foundation Inc give?
- The Jim and Billie Ellis Foundation Inc reported 29 grants totaling $1,892,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Jim and Billie Ellis Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (40%), Religion (29%), Health (13%).
- Who are The Jim and Billie Ellis Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wellspring Living Inc ($1.1M), Atlanta Union Mission Corporation ($900k), Eagle Ranch Inc ($705k).
- Does The Jim and Billie Ellis Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Jim and Billie Ellis Foundation Inc 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 Jim and Billie Ellis Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Tr Uw Charles I Branan, United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc.
- Where is The Jim and Billie Ellis Foundation Inc based?
- The Jim and Billie Ellis Foundation Inc is based in GA.
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