· Private foundation
Ed Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DONORSTRUST | $1,043,250 |
| ACTON ACADEMY | $780,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| HETERODOX ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UFM INC | $100,000 |
| PARKS & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC | $100,000 |
| ACTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION | $100,000 |
| HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| DRIPPING SPRINGS COMMUNITY MISSION PARTNERSHIP INC | $100,000 |
| TENNANT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC | $50,000 |
| METHUSELAH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| EMPOWERED MINDS ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| THE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $740k 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
- ASACTON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS8× · 2017–2024 · $25M · revenue +421% · 95% of their budget
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $800k · revenue +17%- AIActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty5× · 2017–2022 · $775k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- MHMemorial Hermann Foundationone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +13%
- GOGRIPTAPE ORG INCone grant, 2024 · $120k · revenue 0%
- SMSEA MERCYone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -86% · 52% of their budget
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 Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
Institute for the future is the world's leading futures organization. our mission is to prepare the world to create better, more equitable futures by disrupting short-term thinking with visions of transformative possibilities.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
We believe every texas student deserves the opportunity to earn a postsecondary credential or degree that helps them achieve the future they envision for themselves and their families. we invest in the programs, practices, and policies…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pregnancy Resource Center 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 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 84 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 ACTON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ↗
- Who funds ACTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Donors Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UFM INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Gazelle Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRIPTAPE ORG INC ↗
- Who funds HETERODOX ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DRIPPING SPRINGS COMMUNITY MISSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds TENNANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds SEA MERCY ↗
- Who funds NEW STORY INC ↗
- Who funds Emergent Order Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Creative Action ↗
- Who funds Empowered Minds Academy ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE METHUSELAH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION 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: Donors Trust Inc · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Triad Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Marin Community Foundation
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 Ed 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.
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.
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