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Edelman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14M
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$13MEducation$12MPhilanthropy$10MCivil Rights$6.4MInternational$4.3MReligion$3.9MSocial Science$2.5MArts & Culture$1.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 47 grants below total $13,520,480, the rows itemized in this filing. The $13,907,577 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $387,097 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+14 grants · $11M
$125,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$75M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Donors Trust Inc$5,000,000
Donors Trust Inc$1,000,000
New York Genome Center Inc$1,000,000
Tikvah Fund$750,000
Manhattan Institute of Policy Research Inc$500,000
Tikvah Fund$500,000
Charley's Fund Inc$495,000
UC San Diego Foundation$312,500
Heterodox Academy$300,000
Heterodox Academy$300,000
University of Florida Foundation Inc$300,000
Louis D Brandeis Center Inc$250,000
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$250,000
Manhattan Institute of Policy Research Inc$250,000
American Friends Of Israeli Navy Seals Inc$225,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $293k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $1k → 6%NATIONAL PROGRESS ALLIANCE: $120k → 8%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $1k → 6%SHOES THAT FIT: $50k → 14%ONE VOICE: $8k → 14%ONE VOICE: $8k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $8k → 17%CHARITYWATER: $20k → 17%CHARITYWATER: $20k → 17%CHARITYWATER: $20k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $8k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
WY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 19% of Edelman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Edelman Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 56 repeat orgs$9.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
50

Total granted

$29M
$7.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+21%

Still filing today

77%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NY
    NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +14%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +191%
  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION AGAINST INTOLERANCE & RACISM CO UNITED CHARITABLE
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • BU
    BROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT'S RESPONSE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • DN
    DO NO HARMgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +260% · 34% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
New York University

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.

Education
4
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
8
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
9
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
10
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
11
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
12
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Balaker Media Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

103 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. 103 of the 132 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/103
Grantees still filing
66/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Donors Trust Inc: $9,500,000 · PhilanthropyDonors Trust IncPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,200,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATI…CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $720,372 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDAT…+7 more: $779,000 · Philanthropy+7 moreHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $1,040,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYTHE FOUNDATION AGAINST INTOLERANCE & RACISM CO UNITED CHARITABLE: $1,000,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION AGAINST INTOLER…BROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT'S RESPONSE FUND: $1,000,000 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT'S R…NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $800,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH…Manhattan Institute of Policy Research Inc: $750,000 · OtherUATX UATX CENTER FOR POLITIC: $500,000 · OtherMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $1,050,000 · OtherMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY…FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $751,800 · OtherDO NO HARM: $1,000,000 · OtherDO NO HARMAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $650,000 · Other+62 more: $6,267,799 · Other+62 moreTHE TIKVAH FUND: $2,900,000 · EducationTHE TIKVAH FUNDUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $1,405,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FO…HETERODOX ACADEMY: $1,060,000 · EducationHETERODOX ACADE…VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC: $600,000 · EducationVERTEX PARTNERS…THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · EducationPRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC: $270,000 · EducationOAK ROSE FUND: $250,000 · Education+11 more: $560,559 · Education+11 moreNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $4,000,000 · HealthNEW YORK GENO…CHARLEY'S FUND INC: $1,810,000 · HealthCHARLEY'S FUN…CRISIS TEXT LINE INC: $600,000 · HealthCRISIS TEXT L…+7 more: $408,800 · Health+7 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY: $5,975,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVER…+2 more: $101,800 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $1,690,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,225,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,050,000 · Civil RightsDEFENDING EDUCATION: $250,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $9,156 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $1,451,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $725,000 · InternationalACUMEN FUND INC: $700,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP: $575,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $200,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $150,000 · International+8 more: $174,850 · International
Philanthropy$12,199,372Other$14,809,599Education$7,345,559Health$6,818,800Community Improvement$6,076,800Civil Rights$4,224,156International$3,975,850

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDonors Trust Inc: $9,500,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $5,975,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $4,000,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $2,900,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetCHARLEY'S FUND INC: $1,810,000 over 6y, 79% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $1,690,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $1,451,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $1,405,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,225,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,200,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHETERODOX ACADEMY: $1,060,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $1,050,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,050,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetDO NO HARM: $1,000,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $800,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $751,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $725,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $720,372 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC: $700,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $650,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC: $600,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCRISIS TEXT LINE INC: $600,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP: $575,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL PROGRESS ALLIANCE: $473,380 over 3y, 27% of budgetThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc: $450,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMSI US: $375,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $281,750 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC: $270,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEXTBOOK INC: $250,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetOAK ROSE FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDEFENDING EDUCATION: $250,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $201,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEAGLES WINGS INTERNATIONAL INC: $200,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $200,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL VALUES INC: $190,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $189,870 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHeritage Foundation Inc: $156,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetPROSTATE ACTION INC: $150,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetBALAKER MEDIA FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetAMERICAN STUDIO: $150,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFoundation For Excellence in Higher Education: $125,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCornell University: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNECHAMA AND HATZALA INC: $107,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Donors Trust IncJewish Communal FundThe Snider FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Community Foun…Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Community Fede…Select Equity Group F…National Philanthropi…Jewish Federation of …The Jay and Terry Sni…The Barry S Sternlich…
Donors Trust IncVA36.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Snider Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Select Equity Group Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Jay and Terry Snider Foundation · The Barry S Sternlicht Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Edelman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edelman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 132 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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