GrantmakersPennsylvania

Eluna

Philadelphia, PA · EIN 91-2065051. Reported 93 grants totalling $2,610,784 to 34 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

34organizations funded
$21,668median reported grant
$2,610,784granted, 2021-2024
100%of grantees funded again the next year
13%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Eluna, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for health care (NTEE E126).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 34 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 100% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $21,668. Half of what it reported fell between $10,500 and $34,832; the smallest was $5,300 and the largest $192,331. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
16 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
37 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
30 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
8 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
2 grants

14 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $503,084 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Clemson University Learning InstitutePickens, SC$330,560222024
Jewish Family and Childrens Service of Greater PhiladelphiaBala Cynwyd, PA$237,953442024
Westcare Ohio IncDayton, OH$216,669442024
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua IncNashua, NH$196,336442024
Oaklawn Psychiatric Center IncGoshen, IN$167,900442024
Lifeline ConnectionsVancover, WA$124,250442024
Overdose-Lifeline IncIndianapolis, IN$114,500442024
Jewish Family & Childrens Service of the Suncoast IncSarasota, FL$112,000442024
Northwestern Settlement IncChicago, IL$111,832542024
Westcare Kentucky IncHenderson, NV$101,233442024
Community Connections IncPrinceton, WV$88,500332024
Compass HealthEverett, WA$82,000442024
Westcare Gulfcoast-Florida IncHenderson, NV$81,750442024
San Diego Youth ServicesSan Diego, CA$78,700332023
Youth Empowerment ProjectNew Orleans, LA$75,500332023
Westcare Tennessee IncHenderson, NV$72,501332023
Hospice of the Good Shepherd IncNewton Center, MA$56,500322024
The Community HospiceAlbany, NY$51,300332024
Camp Magik IncAtlanta, GA$40,800222023
Kansas City Hospice FoundationKansas City, MO$40,800222023
Mourning HopeLincoln, NE$40,000222023
Forefront LivingDallas, TX$26,000332024
Friends of Hospice of the Lakeway Area IncMorristown, TN$25,000222023
Brighter Days Grief CenterEden Prairie, MN$21,200222024
United States Catholic ConferenceWashington, DC$20,725112023
The Tristesse Grief Center IncTulsa, OK$15,725112023
Our House Grief Support CenterLos Angeles, CA$11,225222024
Caringmatters IncGaithersburg, MD$11,125222024
Cope FoundationMelville, NY$10,900222024
Rocky Mountain Fisher House FoundationDenver, CO$10,900222024
Willow Center IncLewiston, ID$10,800222024
P U N T Pediatric Cancer Collaborative IncBuffalo, NY$10,000112024
Van Dyke United Methodist ChurchTampa, FL$10,000112023
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley IncOwensboro, KY$5,600112023

29 of 34 (85%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 1 group of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 27 of 34 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Mental Health
10 orgs
Human Services
9 orgs
Health Care
3 orgs
Youth Development
1 org
Crime & Legal
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202114$503,084$32,916
202222$614,831$27,000
202334$787,347$19,000
202423$705,522$21,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

13% of its giving went to organizations in South Carolina. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

South Carolina
$331K
Indiana
$282K
Nevada
$255K
Pennsylvania
$238K
Ohio
$217K
Washington
$206K
New Hampshire
$196K
Florida
$122K

Down to the city

Pickens, SC
$331K
Henderson, NV
$255K
Bala Cynwyd, PA
$238K
Dayton, OH
$217K
Nashua, NH
$196K
Goshen, IN
$168K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund15 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program12 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust8 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America7 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $21,668 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in South Carolina.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Eluna's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 23 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1617 John F Kennedy Blvd Suite 935, Philadelphia, PA, 19103.

EIN 91-2065051 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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