· Private foundation
Charles Edison Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
- $250k+1 grant · $759k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Edison Innovation Foundation | $759,300 |
| Seton Hall Preparatory School | $19,200 |
| New Jersey Hall of Fame Foundation | $12,500 |
| Big Brother Big Sister of Monmouth and Middlesex Counties | $12,500 |
| St. Johns Church | $12,000 |
| Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation | $10,000 |
| Black Inventors Hall of Fame | $5,000 |
| Council on Foundations | $4,000 |
| Universiy of the Cumberlands | $2,500 |
| Battleship New Jersey Museum | $2,500 |
| St Joseph's Indian School | $2,500 |
| Council of New Jersey Grant Makers | $2,500 |
| Bridge of Books Foundation | $1,000 |
| American Federation for Aging | $1,000 |
| Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart | $250 |
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- EIEDISON INNOVATION FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +2% · 81% of their budget
- LTLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation5× · 2018–2024 · $50k · revenue +76%
- PFParker Family Health Center Inc2× · 2019–2023 · $20k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- AMAcademy Museum of Motion Picturesone grant, 2018 · $98k
- NSNJ Submarine Commissioning Orgone grant, 2023 · $13k
- TMTHE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -31%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
We are an innovative research org. dedicated to revitalizing economic development within nj.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
The foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with parkinson's today.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Coriell's mission is to accelerate scientific discovery by generating, banking, storing and distributing world-class biomaterials, and conducting groundbreaking research in genetics and epigenetics.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of New Jersey and the most unlike its peers is The Sandy Hook Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EDISON INNOVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds Council on Foundations Inc ↗
- Who funds Parker Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF NEW JERSEY GRANTMAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds RUMSON ST PATRICKS DAY PARADE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SANDY HOOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK INVENTORS HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds Sierra House Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Oceanfirst Foundation · The Sandy Hill Foundation · Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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