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Uw William H Ellsworth Fnd

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$261k
Granted FY2026still arriving
16
Grants FY2026still arriving
9
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2026.

Health$558kEducation$435kHuman Services$425kReligion$394kPhilanthropy$70kPublic Safety & Disaster$50k
02FY2026 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $251k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ELLISVILLE$30,000
MISSISSIPPI BAPTIST HEALTH SYSTEM$30,000
ELLISVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$27,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
TIMES-PICAYUNE DOLL & TOY FUND$22,000
THE GUNNERY SCHOOL - FREDERICK GUNN SCH$20,000
BERRY COLLEGE$17,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$15,000
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND$15,000
THE SALVATION ARMY GREATER NEW YORK$10,000
WILLIAM CAREY UNIVERSITY$10,000
YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS IN GRTR NY$10,000
FRIENDS OF GREEN CHIMNEYS$10,000
JEWISH BOARD FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SVCES$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–26, $278k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $20k → 7%TIMES-PICAYUNE DOLL & TOY FUND: $30k → 23%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $20k → 7%TIMES-PICAYUNE DOLL & TOY FUND: $26k → 23%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $20k → 7%TIMES-PICAYUNE DOLL & TOY FUND: $22k → 23%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 7%TIMES-PICAYUNE DOLL & TOY FUND: $21k → 23%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 7%TIMES-PICAYUNE DOLL & TOY FUND: $20k → 23%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 7%TIMES-PICAYUNE DOLL & TOY FUND: $14k → 23%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 7%TIMES-PICAYUNE DOLL & TOY FUND: $10k → 23%TIMES PICAYUNE DOLL AND TOY FUND: $10k → 23%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
CT
CO
VA
DC
LA
MS
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 18 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2026, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
3

Total granted

$1.8M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+50%

Still filing today

56%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    7× · 2018–2026 · $177k · revenue +26%
  • TF
    THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2018–2026 · $140k · revenue +19%
  • BC
    BERRY COLLEGE INC
    8× · 2018–2026 · $117k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • MC
    MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $15k · revenue +50%
  • JB
    JEWISH BD OF FAM & CHILDREN
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2025 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
2
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
5
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
6
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
7
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
8
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
9
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and educational…

Health
10
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
11
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
12
Yale New Haven Hospital

The mission of ynhh is to provide innovative and excellent patient care, teaching, research, and service to the communities it serves.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Children's Home Society; the most unlike its peers is Old Ladies Home Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ELLISVILLE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $229,500 · OtherELLISVILLE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCHELLISVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $124,000 · OtherELLISVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHMISSISSIPPI CHILDRENS HOME SOC: $100,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI CHILDRENS HOME SOCNATL JEWISH MEDICAL & RESEARCH: $95,000 · OtherNATL JEWISH MEDICAL & RESEARCHWilliam Carey University: $93,000 · OtherWilliam Carey UniversityOLD LADIES HOME ASSOCIATION: $85,000 · OtherOLD LADIES HOME ASSOCIATIONWILLIAM CAREY COLLEGE: $55,000 · OtherWILLIAM CAREY COLLEGEAMERICAN RED CROSS IN GRTR NY: $50,000 · OtherJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S: $42,500 · Other+6 more: $90,000 · Other+6 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $177,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Asso…MISSISSIPPI BAPTIST HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $141,000 · HealthMISSISSIPPI BAPTIST…NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $15,000 · HealthTHE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC: $140,000 · EducationTHE FREDERICK GU…BERRY COLLEGE INC: $117,000 · EducationBERRY COLLEGE IN…CARES CENTER INC: $30,000 · EducationCARES CENTER INCTIMES PICAYUNE DOLL AND TOY FUND: $152,500 · Human ServicesTIMES PICAYUNE D…AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FOUNDAT…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDS OF GREEN CHIMNEYS: $70,000 · Philanthropy
Other$964,000Health$333,000Education$287,000Human Services$277,500Philanthropy$70,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $177,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTIMES PICAYUNE DOLL AND TOY FUND: $152,500 over 8y, 13% of budgetMISSISSIPPI BAPTIST HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $141,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC: $140,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBERRY COLLEGE INC: $117,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $115,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWilliam Carey University: $93,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOLD LADIES HOME ASSOCIATION: $85,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF GREEN CHIMNEYS: $70,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCARES CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds TIMES PICAYUNE DOLL AND TOY FUND ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI BAPTIST HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds William Carey University ↗
  • Who funds OLD LADIES HOME ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF GREEN CHIMNEYS ↗
  • Who funds CARES CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Uw William H Ellsworth Fnd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Uw William H Ellsworth Fnd. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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