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Dj Edelman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$180k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$483kInternational$360kArts & Culture$280kPublic Safety & Disaster$192kEducation$176kCommunity Improvement$115kHuman Services$110kPhilanthropy$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT HOOD$50,000
DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE$50,000
LEAVE NO VETERAN BEHIND$25,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$20,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$10,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$5,000
PRITZKER MILITARY MUSEUM & LIBRARY$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $295k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $8k → 14%STUDENT VETERANS OF AMERICA: $25k → 14%STUDENT VETERANS OF AMERICA: $25k → 14%STUDENT VETERANS OF AMERICA: $25k → 14%STUDENT VETERANS OF AMERICA: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $61k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $21k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $16k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $13k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $11k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $9k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 91% of Dj Edelman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 2% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Dj Edelman Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 13 repeat orgs$520k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
43

Total granted

$1.4M
$460k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+22%

Still filing today

77%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    9× · 2017–2025 · $187k · revenue +46%
  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +94%
  • PH
    PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    3× · 2019–2025 · $85k · revenue +226%

Funded once

  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM MANHATTAN
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • SH
    SLOAN-KETTERING HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE
    one grant, 2017 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
11
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
12
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan and the most unlike its peers is Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsVeteran Support ServicesNative Hawaiian Community D…Food Pantries & AssistanceSouth Asian Cultural and Sp…Public University Foundatio…Government Accountability R…Land Conservation Organizat…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Community Health CentersSmall Business Development …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%27%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/44
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,521

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.

05the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
25/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $301,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERCHILDREN'S MUSEUM MANHATTAN — $50,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MUSEUM MANHATTANSLOAN-KETTERING HOSPITAL — $50,000 · OtherSLOAN-KETTERING HOSPITALDEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE — $50,000 · OtherDEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANC…UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE — $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (MEDICINE COVID 19) — $25,000 · Other+26 more — $161,003 · Other+26 moreFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC — $300,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF IR DAVID I…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $25,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF M…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $15,000 · International+3 more — $25,000 · International+3 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $187,282 · Human ServicesAmerican National…STUDENT VETERANS OF AMERICA — $100,000 · Human ServicesSTUDENT VETERANS …+1 more — $7,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN — $200,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUS…SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $31,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTH…GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureBowdoin College — $100,000 · EducationBowdoin C…US Chamber of Commerce Foundation — $25,000 · EducationUS Chambe…University of Chicago — $20,000 · EducationUniversit…+5 more — $21,000 · Education+5 moreLEAVE NO VETERAN BEHIND — $55,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LAGRANT FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyPRATHAM USA — $15,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropyBENTON INSTITUTE FOR BROADBAND & SOCIETY — $10,000 · PhilanthropyPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $85,000 · Community Improvement
Other$662,003International$365,000Human Services$294,782Arts & Culture$256,000Education$166,000Philanthropy$120,000Community Improvement$85,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC — $300,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN — $200,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $187,282 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT VETERANS OF AMERICA — $100,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBowdoin College — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $85,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetLEAVE NO VETERAN BEHIND — $55,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $31,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAGRANT FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVE AN HOUR NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPRATHAM USA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR SOCIAL WORK & RESEARCH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBENTON INSTITUTE FOR BROADBAND & SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP AUSTIN FED — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $5,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElon University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe North American Foundation for the University of Durham Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIELD NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO VETERANS — $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Robert R McCormick Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Silicon Valley Commun…California Community …Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Dj Edelman Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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