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Edens Community Enrichment Foundation

Edens' purpose is to enrich communities by fostering entrepreneurship and economic empowerment and to promote social well-being through creativity, collaboration, inclusion, and education.

$235k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$435kArts & Culture$123kEmployment$75kInternational$75kCommunity Improvement$60kHuman Services$58kPublic Benefit$50k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $200,777, the rows itemized in this filing. The $235,343 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $34,566 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $123k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$302k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION$70,000
SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA$25,017
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM$25,005
EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION$25,000
THE LEE INITIATIVE$25,000
LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER$12,755
CHARLESTON WINE AND FOOD$10,000
WILKINSON CENTER$8,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%TECHO: $20k → 15%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UN TECHO PARA MI PAIS: $18k → 15%HER DC: $25k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UN TECHO PARA MI PAIS: $12k → 15%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

NY
CA
KY
VA
SC
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$763k · 7 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$763k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+38%

Still filing today

100%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEmploymentFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • TJ
    THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $415k · revenue +26%
  • LI
    LEE INITIATIVE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +65%
  • EC
    EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • CT
    College to Congress
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -30%
  • BG
    BLACK GIRL VENTURES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +38%
  • WG
    WELL GROUNDED COFFEE COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2024 · $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.

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
Council of the Americas Inc

Council of the americas is a business organization whose members share a common commitment to economic and social development, open markets, the rule of law, and democracy throughout the americas. the council's membership consists of…

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2
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

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3
Hot Bread Kitchen Ltd

Hot bread kitchen creates economic opportunity through culinary job skills training and placement, food entrepreneurship, and an ecosystem of support for individuals who face barriers to meaningful careers.

Human Services
4
Mi Casa Resource Center

Advancing economic prosperity of the latino community.

Human Services
5
Workforce Professionals Training Institute

Wpti's mission is to build the capacities of people, programs, and organizations that provide job training, placement, and career guidance for individuals and to advocate for policies that promote economic opportunities for all.

Employment
6
Americas Society Inc

Americas society is an educational forum which presents programs in its public policy and cultural affairs departments.

International
7
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
8
The Applesauce Group

To create and harness joy for building better futures.

Human Services
9
Economic Development Corporation of Los Angeles County

The function of the corporation shall be to ease the burdens of government by assisting, implementing, supporting and/or contributing to the support of programs, projects and activities of a public nature. which are directed toward…

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10
The Brookings Institution

The brookings institution (brookings) is a nonprofit public policy organization that conducts in-depth, independent research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national, and global level.…

Social Science
11
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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12
Council of Independent Colleges

The council of independent colleges is an association of nonprofit independent colleges and universities, state- based councils of independent colleges, and other higher education affiliates, that works to support college and university…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edward Charles Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Un Techo Para Mi Pais Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $415,000 · OtherTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INCCollege to Congress: $50,000 · OtherCollege to Congress+1 more: $10,000 · OtherEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES F…American Friends of Un Techo Para Mi Pais Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Friends…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $60,030 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INS…JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $37,506 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY …SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $25,017 · Arts & CultureSPOLETO FESTIVA…LEE INITIATIVE INC: $75,000 · EmploymentLEE INITI…LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK GIRL VENTURES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCharleston Wine & Food Festival: $10,000 · Food & NutritionWILKINSON CENTER: $8,000 · Education
Other$475,000Human Services$125,000Arts & Culture$122,553Employment$75,000Community Improvement$60,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Education$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $415,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetLEE INITIATIVE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $60,030 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCollege to Congress: $50,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of Un Techo Para Mi Pais Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $37,506 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCharleston Wine & Food Festival: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK GIRL VENTURES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Tides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…American Online Givin…
Tides FoundationCA12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Edens Community Enrichment Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edens Community Enrichment Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Edens Community Enrichment Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Edens Community Enrichment Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 13 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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