How much does Edelson Foundation Inc give?

Edelson Foundation Inc reported 23 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Edelson Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (72%), Civil Rights (12%), Health (7%).

Who are Edelson Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lincoln Park Zoological Society ($33k), The Anti-Cruelty Society ($28k), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc ($28k).

Does Edelson Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Edelson Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Edelson Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.

Where is Edelson Foundation Inc based?

Edelson Foundation Inc is based in IL.

Edelson Foundation Inc

Edelson Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Edelson Foundation Inc

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.

$100k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$8k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$349kCivil Rights$58kHealth$33kEnvironment$20kPublic Benefit$16kYouth Development$8kArts & Culture$2kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,500

Median grant

States reached

$471k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LINCOLN PARK ZOO	$8,000
ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY	$6,000
PETA	$6,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$6,000
ACLU	$5,000
PAWS CHICAGO	$5,000
GLOBAL SANCTUARY FOR ELEPHANTS	$5,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES	$5,000
THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY	$5,000
MERCY FOR ANIMALS	$5,000
TIGER HAVEN	$4,500
THE GORILLA FOUNDATION	$4,500
TIGER CREEK WILDLIFE REFUGE	$4,500
ASPCA	$4,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER	$4,000

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$483k · 26 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$483k

$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+36%

Still filing today

73%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsArts & CultureCrime & LegalPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther

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

TA
The Anti-Cruelty Society
6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +30%
PF
PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +82%
HW
Humane World for Animals Inc
6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +67%

Funded once

CHIMP HAVEN INCgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +36%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $2k
CT
CHICAGO TRIBUNE CHARITIES
one grant, 2020 · $1k

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.

World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals

Global Animal Partnership

Animals

Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals

American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals

Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals

Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services

Four Paws International Inc

Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. four paws mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals.

Animals

Last Chance for Animals

Dedicated to ending animal abuse and exploitation through education, public outreach and investigations.

Animals

Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals

Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals

J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals

The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Foundation for Rescued Animals Dba Tiger Creek Animal Sanctuary; the most unlike its peers is Chicago Tribune Charities. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 29 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/21

Grantees still filing

14/21

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Animals$289,500Other$141,500Crime & Legal$19,000Arts & Culture$17,500Public Benefit$16,000Environment$4,000

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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY12.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Edelson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edelson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home