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THE ELLIS FOUNDATION

EIN 48-1093604 FORT SCOTT, KS

Revenue 2024
$5,151,868
Expenses 2024
$4,145,383

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

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T30
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 54

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • 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 — 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,151,868
    Expenses
    $4,145,383
    Contributions
    $4,369,827
    Grants paid
    $2,473,696
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,909,229
    Expenses
    $3,578,745
    Contributions
    $3,247,866
    Grants paid
    $2,139,574
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,893,669
    Expenses
    $3,292,549
    Contributions
    $5,557,877
    Grants paid
    $1,870,221

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.