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← THE ELLIS FOUNDATION

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by THE ELLIS FOUNDATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$5,151,868
Total expenses
$4,145,383
Contributions and grants received
$4,369,827
Grants paid
$2,473,696
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$771,484
Other revenue
$10,557
Total assets, end of year
$25,545,812
Total liabilities, end of year
$29,662
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$25,516,150
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,473,696
Management and general expenses
$1,671,687
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,473,696

Program services were 59.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • CHRIS D ELLIS

    PRESIDENT/CE

    Total calculated
    $418,831
    From this org
    $412,684
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,147
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $274,808
    Bonus
    $137,876
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $825
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,322
    Filer's total
    $418,831

  • CATHERINE D ELLIS

    SECRETARY/TR

    Total calculated
    $147,763
    From this org
    $139,737
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,026
    Hours/week
    20

  • JOSHUA SHAFFER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BOBBY PATTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL CILESSEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTOPHER ELLIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
21 January 2026
IRS schema version
2024v5.0
Source object
202600309349301210

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