· Private foundation
The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYSLES INSTITUTE INC | $30,000 |
| MYRIAD USA INC | $25,000 |
| WILLAMETTE VALLEY CHAMBER FESTIVAL | $15,000 |
| POW POWER OF WE ENRICHMENT INC | $15,000 |
| STUDIO ROUTE 29 | $10,000 |
| SHEFFIELD CHAMBER PLAYERS | $5,000 |
| PORTLAND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE -SPECIAL COLLECTION | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HOPEWELL HOUSE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–22, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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 +182% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MIMAYSLES INSTITUTE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +57%
WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC2× · 2019–2020 · $100k · revenue +182%- SCSHEFFIELD CHAMBER PLAYERS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue +192%
Funded once
- TSTHE STUDIO MUSEUM OF HARLEMone grant, 2019 · $50k
- NYNEW YORK INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIESone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +5% · 32% of their budget
- IFINSTITUTE FOR ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES GOETHE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
As the leader in its field, public art fund brings dynamic contemporary art to a broad audience in new york city and beyond by mounting ambitious free exhibitions of international scope and impact that offer the public powerful experiences…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
Collaborating with artists, revealing new possibilities.
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
The moving picture institute is a nonprofit production company and talent incubator that creates high-impact films designed to entertain, inspire, and educate audiences with captivating stories about human freedom.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.
See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
Bax/brooklyn arts exchange is a multigenerational arts organization nurturing creative expression and artistic process through education, residencies, and performance at the intersection of arts and social justice.
To provide the opportunity for the public to learn about the process involved in creating artistic works such as dance, music, opera and theater.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for the American Way Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Studio Museum in Harlem. 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 20 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 33 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 MAYSLES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds SHEFFIELD CHAMBER PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds POW POWER OF WE ENRICHMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES ↗
- Who funds STUDIO ROUTE 29 ↗
- Who funds CANOPY CANOPY CANOPY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VENTURE OUT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SEARCH AND CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Hopewell House dba Hopewell House ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Elevated Access Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PET PIGS INC ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Ralph Ellison Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAST FEET RUNNING AND ATHLETICS INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA ↗
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust 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.
- Portland Baroque Orchestra — 1% 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.