Tennessee · Nonprofit
Ellas House
Ellas House (Tennessee) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,077 to it, the largest being THE SWANSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($115,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $516k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $220k
- Net assets
- $169k
What Ellas House does
Mission
We support pregnant and parenting student mothers, ages 18-24 years-old attending one of the twenty colleges and six community colleges in the greater Nashville area. Through housing, community, and mental health and wellness resources, student moms are equipped to have their babies and get their diplomas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pregnant Mother Support: Ellas House had over 100 pregnant and parenting collegiate women in 2024. All women had healthy babies and received a counseling stipend, free room and board, groceries, mentorship, budget coaching, a doula, and twice-monthly check-ins with a success coach and social work intern. Through this initiative, in 2024 Ellas House provided 96 wellness and educational hours, over 1,700 hours of free babysitting, and 76 hours of counseling.
$327,252 spent100% of program spendingOutreach: Ellas House hosts monthly community outreach programs, monthly educational lectures, and weekly community dinners. Through these initiatives, Ellas House served over 100 pregnant and parenting women in the greater Nashville area in 2024.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $327,252.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $127k to $176k (+39%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 7% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Ellas House’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (38% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $30k → $31k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Ellas House’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Ellas House leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
37% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Ellas House.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 83% · 2023 82% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Ellas House's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Ellas House runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,255 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,255 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Ellas House
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ellas House: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Ellas House?
- Ellas House (Tennessee) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,077 to it, the largest being THE SWANSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($115,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ellas House have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $220,077 in grants to Ellas House, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ellas House?
- THE SWANSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ellas House find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing