Helen E. Ellis Charitable Trust Grant

The Helen E. Ellis Charitable Trust Grant supports cultural and educational programs for children and adults in Westport, Dartmouth, and New Bedford, MA. Established to honor Miss Ellis's legacy as an artist and community supporter, the Trust seeks proposals that enhance the arts, history, conservation, and wildlife. Eligible organizations include 501(c)(3) nonprofits, with a preference for local applicants. However, it does not fund multi-year support, endowments, or direct grants to individuals.

Ellis Charitable Trust was established to carry on the life work of "Miss Ellis."
Ellis Charitable Trust strives to continue Miss Ellis’s work through grants that support cultural experiences for children and adults in the Westport, Dartmouth and the New Bedford, MA areas. Ellis Charitable Trust provides grants to organizations that create programs relating to arts, music, crafts, conservation, wildlife and history preservation.
Programs that provide educational or cultural experiences to children and/or adults in the towns of Westport and Dartmouth and the city of New BedfordThe Foundation will consider applications for programs that provide educational or cultural experiences to children and/or adults in the towns of Westport and Dartmouth and the city of New Bedford.

Eligibility

501(c)(3) organizations are eligible.

Ineligibility

The Foundation does not consider requests for the following: multi-year supportendowmentscapital campaignsacademic or medical researchreligious or sectarian purposesoperating budget items except for limited support of critical programmingdirect grants to individuals or other private foundations