New York · Nonprofit
ELLUMINATE INC
ELLUMINATE INC (New York) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,325,818 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($598,948). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Elluminate Inc does
Mission
The organization empowers feminist jewish women leaders and philanthropists to advance equity andsocial justice. The organization focuses on the following: supporting jewish women nonprofit leaders and their organizations by providing training andfunding, fostering collaboration, and sharing best practices to accelerate social change through agender lens. Building a global leadership network for jewish women leaders who are addressing andfinding innovative solutions to today's most intractable issues. Transforming traditional philanthropic models to strategically direct funds towards womenadvancing social change. Educating the broader community on issues that are emergent in important areas with a genderlens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Elluminate, a network of jewish women for equity and justice, has created a unique and dedicated space for jewish women entreprenurial leaders and executives working for social innovation within and outside the jewish community. The collective, our signature leadership advancement program, has trained, supported, and connected 60 jewish women executives working for social change. As a participant in the program they participate in, elluminate provides a two-year curriculum focused on leading through a jewish and gender lens, cohort groups, peer-to-peer relationship building, capacity grants for their organizations, and individual professional development training, they also become part of the elluminate network and get a national platform for their cause including a dedicated webinar called crown jewel conversations. Through this work we are impacting ending the feminization of poverty, creating a more inclusive and diverse jewish community, advocating for democracy and equality in israel and the us, and working for reproductive justice, gender justice, and women's safety. We also run a "women in the c-suite" program for jewish women ceos who come together monthly on an informal…
$1,118,277 spentof which $452,275 as grants$883,204 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,118,277.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.6M to $3.6M (−23%).
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: 2021 8% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Melanie Roth Gorelick
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $52k → $515k.
19 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 ELLUMINATE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 funders by total. 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
ELLUMINATE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
69% 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 ELLUMINATE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 53% · 2019 58% · 2020 23% · 2021 34% · 2022 19% · 2023 19% — 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
43% of ELLUMINATE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
67% of ELLUMINATE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Organizations like ELLUMINATE INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 ELLUMINATE INC: 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 ELLUMINATE INC?
- ELLUMINATE INC (New York) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,325,818 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($598,948). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ELLUMINATE INC have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $3,325,818 in grants to ELLUMINATE INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELLUMINATE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $598,948 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELLUMINATE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 66 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