· 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 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 · 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 |
| PARKS & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC | $100,000 |
| HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| TENNANT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ACTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION | $100,000 |
| DRIPPING SPRINGS COMMUNITY MISSION PARTNERSHIP INC | $100,000 |
| HETERODOX ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UFM INC | $100,000 |
| METHUSELAH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC | $50,000 |
| MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE | $25,000 |
| EMPOWERED MINDS ACADEMY | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- NSNEW STORY INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -17%
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 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…
How this is measured
62 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. 62 of the 84 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 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 TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRIPTAPE ORG INC ↗
- Who funds NEW STORY INC ↗
- Who funds TENNANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEA MERCY ↗
- Who funds HETERODOX ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds DRIPPING SPRINGS COMMUNITY MISSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Emergent Order Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Creative Action ↗
- Who funds Empowered Minds Academy ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE METHUSELAH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ed Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ed Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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