· Private foundation
Edelman 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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNC Global GSDI Project | $20,000 |
| Central Park Conservancy | $10,000 |
| Blue Mountain Action Comimittee | $10,000 |
| Southern Poverty Law Center | $8,500 |
| Little Guild of St Francis | $7,500 |
| Blue Mountain Humane Society | $7,500 |
| UNC Schl of Scial Wrk | $5,000 |
| Razom | $5,000 |
| NYU Dept of Gastroenterology | $5,000 |
| MSKCC Dept of Neurology | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation | $3,500 |
| Weill Cornell MedicineDept of Cardi | $3,000 |
| Weill Cornell Medicine Dept of Neur | $3,000 |
| The Wild Bird Fund | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +25% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 8 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +167%
- BCBowdoin College7× · 2019–2025 · $44k · revenue +59%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC4× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- UGUNC Global Social Dev Innovationsone grant, 2019 · $25k
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +97%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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How this is measured
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 81 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 LITTLE GUILD OF ST FRANCIS ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE DIRECT INC ↗
- Who funds Nonhuman Rights Project Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Michael Wolk Heart Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds WILD BIRD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CARTER BURDEN NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER HEALTHWORKS FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA 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: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edelman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edelman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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