· Private foundation
The Koch Ellis Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k65 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $201k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLLINS UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| BERKELEY DIVINITY SCHOOL OF YALE | $51,100 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN | $44,500 |
| HARLEM ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL | $20,100 |
| TRINITY CHURCH ON THE GREEN | $17,750 |
| FAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE | $10,000 |
| ORANGE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $7,500 |
| NEW HAVEN READS | $6,000 |
| THE FOOTE SCHOOL | $5,500 |
| PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS | $5,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| MCGILL UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| THE MARFAN FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY | $2,500 |
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 (FY22–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Koch Ellis Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 52% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 47% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- HUHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $784k · revenue +37%
UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $297k · revenue +58%- WIWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH2× · 2021–2023 · $101k · revenue +128%
Funded once
- BDBERKELEY DIVITY SCHOOL OF YALEone grant, 2023 · $100k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $50k
- FFAESone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Nightingale-Bamford School and the most unlike its peers is Lost in New Haven Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 119 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 HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE HIGH SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds FAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NUS AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY ↗
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 New Haven · Seedlings Foundation · The Daniel & Sharon Milikowsky Family Foundation · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Yale University · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees · Eder Family Foundation Inc · The Risc Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Fidelity Foundation · The Sassafras Foundation · Waring & Carmen Partridge Foundation (Fka Partridge Foundation)
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 Koch Ellis Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Open Communities Alliance Inc — 39% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Bridges Outreach Inc — 25% of income from government
- Friends Center for Children Inc — 21% of income from government
- Fair Haven Community Health Clinic Inc — 18% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Calvin Hill Day Care Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Voices Boston Inc — 5% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- New Haven Chorale Inc — 3% of income from government
- Leila Day Nurseries Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
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.
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