· Private foundation
Charles Edison Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Big Brother Big Sister of Monmouth and Middlesex Counties | $12,500 |
| New Jersey Hall of Fame Foundation | $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 |
| Battleship New Jersey Museum | $2,500 |
| Universiy of the Cumberlands | $2,500 |
| Council of New Jersey Grant Makers | $2,500 |
| St Joseph's Indian School | $2,500 |
| American Federation for Aging | $1,000 |
| Bridge of Books Foundation | $1,000 |
| Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart | $250 |
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- AWAnnis Water Resources Instituteone grant, 2019 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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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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