The Ellis Foundation

Your funders

13 funders have made program grants to you since 2016. The 5 shown below are the most recent; each row shows how many years they funded you and the total amount recorded. Of these, 9 are locally focused, 2 have national reach, and 2 are no longer active.

• Patterson Family Foundation3 years$4,415,000
• Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation6 years$1,080,000
• Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City7 years$825,000
• Topeka Community Foundation7 years$545,000
• Orville & Laurene Watts Scholarship Fund7 years$357,922

Showing 5 of 13. See all 23 funders

10 others are DAFs (donor-advised funds), matching-gift programs or similar pass-throughs — intermediaries carrying someone else's choice, so no step below uses them.

Your funding peers

Funding peers are organizations that share one or more of your funders. Start with organizations in a related field that share at least three of them. Explore all 1,786 funding connections →

25 All fields funding peers share at least three of your funders.

• Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas IncKS5 shared funders
• American Public Square IncMO4 shared funders
• American Royal AssociationMO4 shared funders
• The Rabbit Hole KcMO4 shared funders
• University of Central Missouri FoundationMO4 shared funders
• Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO3 shared funders
• Foster Adopt Connect IncMO3 shared funders
• Healthy NevadaMO3 shared funders

See all 25 All fields peers →

Potential new funders

Potential new funders have not funded you since 2016, but they fund organizations in your funding network. They are ranked by the strength of their connections through your funders and funding peers.

In historical data, funders connected this way later funded an organization like yours about twenty times as often as a random eligible funder, and still only about one in fifty times. This is a historical pattern, not a prediction.