Minnesota · Nonprofit
ELLISON CENTER
ELLISON CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $592,208 to it, the largest being MEDICA FOUNDATION ($160,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $926k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $592k
- Net assets
- $236k
What Ellison Center does
Mission
None
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Therapy/mental health services:-provided over 4000 sessions to clients-served over 500 clients, most of them are children under the age of 5 or olderchildren impacted by early childood trama.-opened a second location in little falls to increase access to rural families-secured referral relationships and collaborations with local professionals who impact the lives of children and caregivers- funraised $70,000 to expand our office space to include 5 additional office spaces to add clinician in 2024.
$421,932 spent$378,812 earned by the program51% of program spendingTraining/reflective consultation:-we provided three virtual trainings called lunch and learns, that were offered at a very low cost to professionals in our community and across the state that are in the field of infant and early childhood mental health. We had about 75 attendees at each sessions. -secured contracts with 18 agencies to provide reflective consultation & training to professionals supporting young children and their families.-providing mental health consultation to a domestic violence shelter to support their advocates who support their families.
$198,556 spent$170,837 earned by the program24% of program spendingParenting support services:-grant based services were provided to over 185 families. Services included virtual home visits to families that have barriers to accessing mental health services. -funding was received in 2022 that carried over to 2023 but is not captured-classes were provided in spanish and english. In addition, an affinity group was offered to african/african-american/black caregivers by providers of color.
$206,829 spent$193,120 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $827,317.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $262k to $424k (+62%).
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.
20% of ELLISON CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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.
Chief executive
Tracy Schreifels
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $51k → $55k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 ELLISON CENTER’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
ELLISON CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 ELLISON CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 41% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
67% of ELLISON CENTER's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
76% of ELLISON CENTER's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ELLISON CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ELLISON CENTER
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% 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 ELLISON CENTER: 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 ELLISON CENTER?
- ELLISON CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $592,208 to it, the largest being MEDICA FOUNDATION ($160,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELLISON CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $592,208 in grants to ELLISON CENTER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELLISON CENTER?
- MEDICA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELLISON CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 9 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing