· Private foundation
Dr Lee Maccormick Edwards Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $370k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - WALLACH ART GALLERY | $25,000 |
| BYRD HOFFMAN WATERMILL CENTER | $25,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| BRONX SCHOOL FOR MUSIC | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,837 |
| CHAPEL & YORK FOUNDATION - ROYAL MUSEUMS OF GREENWICH | $17,618 |
| COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY | $15,000 |
| BARD GRADUATE CENTER | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| DELAWARE ART MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA | $15,000 |
| CHAPEL & YORK FOUNDATION - WATTS GALLERY | $13,000 |
| FRICK COLLECTION | $12,500 |
| V&A AMERICAS FOUNDATION | $11,900 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Dr Lee Maccormick Edwards Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY5× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +26%
- BSBRONX SCHOOL FOR MUSIC INC4× · 2021–2024 · $90k · revenue +255%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $81k · revenue +406%
Funded once
- CACAF AMERICA - VARIOUSone grant, 2023 · $31k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL MUSEUM - GREENWICHone grant, 2023 · $16k
- TATHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +48%
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 mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
Supports the nyu institute of fine arts, a division of the nyu graduate school of arts and science; which is devoted to graduate teaching and research in the history of art and archeology and the conservation of works of art.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Founded in 1995, the american friends of the shanghai museum is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to raise awareness and financial support for the shanghai museum, continuing a distinguished history of patron support for…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 57 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.
- Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BRONX SCHOOL FOR MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Pianofest Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA ON TAP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELANDINC ↗
- Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART FUND ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Samuel H Kress Foundation · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · Terra Foundation for American Art · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dr Lee Maccormick Edwards Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dr Lee Maccormick Edwards Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Delaware Art Museum Inc: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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