New York · Private foundation
The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust
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.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 15
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $979k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $2.5M | 100% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $80k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $115k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $140k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $100k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $150k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $166k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bard College | $2,500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Maysles Institute Inc | $150,000 | 4 | 7% |
| People for the American Way Foundation | $115,000 | 4 | 1% |
| William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sheffield Chamber Players Inc | $36,000 | 6 | 18% |
| Pow Power of We Enrichment Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 14% |
| New York Institute for the Humanities | $25,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Studio Route 29 | $20,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Canopy Canopy Canopy Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Baling Twine and Hope | $11,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($153k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 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
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About The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust
- How much does The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust give?
- The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust reported 1 grants totaling $2,500,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Civil Rights (16%), Education (14%).
- Who are The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Bard College ($2.5M), Maysles Institute Inc ($150k), People for the American Way Foundation ($115k).
- Does The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust 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 Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust based?
- The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust is based in NY.
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