Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE ELLINGTON FUND
THE ELLINGTON FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $985,598 to it, the largest being SACKS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($250,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $986k
- Net assets
- $27M
What The Ellington Fund does
Mission
To sponsor, maintain, and financially support the various programs and activities including curriculum programs, student support functions, art and academic disciplines and courses, productions, exhibits, concerts, workshops and educational seminars; and to provide scholarship assistance to graduates of the duke ellington school in pursuit of college or professional careers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Arts and academics - instructional programs and supplies for school programs in dance, theater, vocal music, instrumental music, visual arts, literary, media and communications, museum studies and technical design and production.
$1,830,621 spentof which $1,830,621 as grants$13,158 earned by the program97% of program spendingScholarships - awarded to seniors who will matriculate to post-secondary education. Students submit a written statement of achievements, goals and the reasons for applying. The scholarship committee chooses the recipients.
$50,000 spentof which $50,000 as grants3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,880,621.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $24M to $27M (+14%).
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: 2017 18% · 2018 8% · 2019 5% · 2021 7% · 2022 12% · 2023 9% · 2024 17% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Sandi M Logan
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $163k → $115k.
7 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 THE ELLINGTON FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
THE ELLINGTON FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 27% · 2019 53% · 2020 24% · 2021 42% · 2022 32% · 2023 44% — 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
19% of THE ELLINGTON FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
THE ELLINGTON FUND draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $191k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 THE ELLINGTON FUND
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Duke Ellington School of the Arts Projects · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ELLINGTON FUND: 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 THE ELLINGTON FUND?
- THE ELLINGTON FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $985,598 to it, the largest being SACKS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($250,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ELLINGTON FUND have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $985,598 in grants to THE ELLINGTON FUND, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ELLINGTON FUND?
- SACKS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ELLINGTON FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 40 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