Funding search · EIN 640838134 · Hilton Head, SC

David W Ellis Family Foundation

Name: David W Ellis Family Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

91
grants reported: $135,087
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $500
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

University of Notre Dame3 grants · $39,000
Memory Matters4 grants · $14,100
Notre Dame Club of Hilton Head4 grants · $11,810
Deep Well4 grants · $11,750
Holy Family Catholic Church4 grants · $9,500
University of Chicago Law School4 grants · $8,000
Volunteers in Medicine3 grants · $6,500
St Mary'S College4 grants · $4,000
Heritage Classic Foundation4 grants · $4,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering4 grants · $4,000

Giving over time

$33,800

2022

$35,601

2023

$34,773

2024

$30,913

2025

Grant history

All 91 reported grants, largest first.

$18,500
University of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN · 2022
Charitable
$11,270
Notre Dame Club of Hilton Head · Notre Dame, IN · 2023
Charitable
$10,500
University of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN · 2024
Charitable
$10,000
University of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN · 2025
Charitable
$4,600
Memory Matters · Hilton Head, SC · 2025
Charitable
$4,500
Memory Matters · Hilton Head, SC · 2023
Charitable
$4,000
Memory Matters · Hilton Head, SC · 2024
Charitable
$4,000
Deep Well · Hilton Head, SC · 2023
Charitable
$3,250
Deep Well · Hilton Head, SC · 2024
Charitable
$2,500
Deep Well · Hilton Head, SC · 2025
Charitable
$2,500
Holy Family Catholic Church · Hilton Head, SC · 2025
Charitable
$2,500
Holy Family Catholic Church · Hilton Head, SC · 2024
Charitable
$2,500
Volunteers in Medicine · Hilton Head, SC · 2024
Charitable
$2,500
Holy Family Catholic Church · Hilton Head, SC · 2023
Charitable
$2,400
Six Oaks Cemetery Foundation · Hilton Head, SC · 2024
Charitable
$2,000
University of Chicago Law School · Chicago, IL · 2025
Charitable
$2,000
Volunteers in Medicine · Hilton Head, SC · 2025
Charitable
$2,000
University of Chicago Law School · Chicago, IL · 2024
Charitable
$2,000
Boys and Girls Club of Hilton Head · Hilton Head, SC · 2023
Charitable
$2,000
University of Chicago Law School · Chicago, IL · 2023
Charitable
$2,000
Volunteers in Medicine · Hilton Head, SC · 2023
Charitable
$2,000
Deep Well · Hilton Head, SC · 2022
Charitable
$2,000
Holy Family Catholic Church · Hilton Head, SC · 2022
Charitable
$2,000
University of Chicago Law School · Chicago, IL · 2022
Charitable
$1,008
Sea Pines Forest Preserve Foundatio · Hilton Head, SC · 2023
Charitable
$1,000
Heritage Classic Foundation · Hilton Head, SC · 2025
Charitable
$1,000
Meals On Wheels · Hilton Head, SC · 2025
Charitable
$1,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering · New York, NY · 2025
Charitable
$1,000
St Mary'S College · Notre Dame, IN · 2025
Charitable
$1,000
Coastal Discovery Museum · Hilton Head, SC · 2024
Charitable
$1,000
Communities Development Corp · Hilton Head, SC · 2024
Charitable
$1,000
Heritage Classic Foundation · Hilton Head, SC · 2024
Charitable
$1,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering · New York, NY · 2024
Charitable
$1,000
St Mary'S College · Notre Dame, IN · 2024
Charitable
$1,000
Heritage Classic Foundation · Hilton Head, SC · 2023
Charitable
$1,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering · New York, NY · 2023
Charitable
$1,000
St Judes · Memphis, TN · 2023
Charitable
$1,000
St Mary'S College · Notre Dame, IN · 2023
Charitable
$1,000
Heritage Classic Foundation · Hilton Head, SC · 2022
Charitable
$1,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering · New York, NY · 2022
Charitable
$1,000
Memory Matters · Hilton Head, SC · 2022
Charitable
$1,000
St Mary'S College · Notre Dame, IN · 2022
Charitable
$1,000
Volunteer in Medicine · Burlington, VT · 2022
Charitable
$820
Sea Pines Forest Preserve Foundatio · Hilton Head, SC · 2025
Charitable
$700
Boys and Girls Club of Hilton Head · Hilton Head, SC · 2022
Charitable
$500
Arts Center of Coastal Carolina · Hilton Head, SC · 2025
Charitable
$500
Arts Center of Coastal Carolina · Hilton Head, SC · 2024
Charitable
$500
Boys and Girls Club of Hilton Head · Hilton Head, SC · 2024
Charitable
$500
Sea Pines Forest Preserve Foundatio · Hilton Head, SC · 2024
Charitable
$500
St Judes · Memphis, TN · 2024
Charitable
$500
Arts Center of Coastal Carolina · Hilton Head, SC · 2023
Charitable
$500
Charleston Parks Conservarry · Charleston, SC · 2023
Charitable
$500
Arts Center of Coastal Carolina · Hilton Head, SC · 2022
Charitable
$500
Sea Pines Forest Preserve Foundatio · Hilton Head, SC · 2022
Charitable
$500
St Judes · Memphis, TN · 2022
Charitable
$400
American Heart Association · Dallas, TX · 2025
Charitable
$250
Coastal Discovery Museum · Hilton Head, SC · 2025
Charitable
$250
Coastal Discovery Museum · Hilton Head, SC · 2023
Charitable
$250
Reverend Thomas Delaney St John'S · Springs, MS · 2023
Charitable
$250
Coastal Discovery Museum · Hilton Head, SC · 2022
Charitable
$250
Hopeful Horizons · Beaufort, SC · 2022
Charitable
$250
Notre Dame Club of Hilton Head · Notre Dame, IN · 2022
Charitable
$250
Reverend Thomas Delaney St John'S · Springs, MS · 2022
Charitable
$213
Harbor View Fun Run · Charleston, SC · 2025
Charitable
$200
Hopeful Horizons · Beaufort, SC · 2025
Charitable
$200
Micah'S Mission · Vicksburg, MS · 2025
Charitable
$200
Mercy House Adult & Teen Challenge · Georgetown, MS · 2024
Charitable
$200
Ashley Hall School Loyalty Foundati · Charleston, SC · 2023
Charitable
$200
Hospice Care of Low Country · Bluffton, SC · 2023
Charitable
$200
Ashley Hall School Loyalty Foundati · Charleston, SC · 2022
Charitable
$200
Hospice Care of Low Country · Bluffton, SC · 2022
Charitable
$200
Vicksburg-Warren Humane Society · Vicksburg, MS · 2022
Charitable
$190
Notre Dame Club of Hilton Head · Notre Dame, IN · 2025
Charitable
$140
Play for Pink Spcc · New York, NY · 2025
Charitable
$123
Harbor View Fun Run · Charleston, SC · 2024
Charitable
$123
Harbor View Fun Run · Charleston, SC · 2023
Charitable
$100
Boys and Girls Club of Hilton Head · Hilton Head, SC · 2025
Charitable
$100
Dcfd Emerald Society of Pipes Drum · Washington, DC · 2025
Charitable
$100
First Tee of the Low Country · Bluffton, SC · 2025
Charitable
$100
St Judes · Memphis, TN · 2025
Charitable
$100
Hospice Care of Low Country · Bluffton, SC · 2024
Charitable
$100
Notre Dame Club of Hilton Head · Notre Dame, IN · 2024
Charitable
$100
Second Helpings · Hilton Head Island, SC · 2024
Charitable
$100
Carolyn Ellis Station Scholarship I · University, MS · 2023
Charitable
$100
Ole Miss Fellowship of Christian at · Oxford, MS · 2023
Charitable
$100
St Andrews Church Soup Kitchen · Hilton Head Island, SC · 2023
Charitable
$100
Community Hospice of America · Springfield, MO · 2022
Charitable
$100
Hilton Head Humane Association · Hilton Head, SC · 2022
Charitable
$100
Hope Haven of the Low Country · Beaufort, SC · 2022
Charitable
$100
Hospice Savannah Foundation · Savannah, GA · 2022
Charitable
$100
St George Orthodox Church · Vicksburg, MS · 2022
Charitable

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.