New Jersey · Private foundation
Charles Edison Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $851k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $759,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Charles Edison Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $847k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $656k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $270k | 62% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $497k | 52% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $859k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edison Innovation Foundation | $2,359,137 | 5 | 81% |
| Seton Hall Preparatory School | $97,776 | 5 | n/a |
| St Johns Church | $54,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Council on Foundations Inc | $22,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Parker Family Health Center Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Council of New Jersey Grantmakers Inc | $11,705 | 5 | 0% |
| St Josephs Indian School | $11,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Myelodysplastic Syndromes Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Benedictine Academy | $7,150 | 1 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($405k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Charles Edison Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
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About Charles Edison Fund
- How much does Charles Edison Fund give?
- Charles Edison Fund reported 16 grants totaling $851,330 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Charles Edison Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Philanthropy (12%), Education (2%).
- Who are Charles Edison Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Edison Innovation Foundation ($2.4M), Seton Hall Preparatory School ($98k), St Johns Church ($54k).
- Does Charles Edison Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Charles Edison Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Charles Edison Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Oceanfirst Foundation, The Sandy Hill Foundation.
- Where is Charles Edison Fund based?
- Charles Edison Fund is based in NJ.
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