· Private foundation
Edgemer Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $277k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $380k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $500,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD | $273,250 |
| NAGEN PROJECT | $250,000 |
| LAFAYETTE COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| BUSHNELL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $55,000 |
| CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $50,000 |
| CT MIRROR | $50,000 |
| HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING | $50,000 |
| LEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS | $50,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF GREATER HARTFORD | $40,000 |
| ROB THE DRUMMER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC | $25,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| MANDELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER GREATER HARTFORD | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of its 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 +48% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBowdoin College5× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +94%
- HHHartford Hospital3× · 2017–2020 · $1.4M · revenue +112%
- LCLAFAYETTE COLLEGE6× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +28%
Funded once
- LCLOOMIS CHAFEE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $125k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLANDone grant, 2017 · $100k
- TETHE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITYone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +20%
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.
The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group is to put patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, and exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
Hartford HealthCare's mission is to improve the health and healing of the people and communities it serves.
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 57 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds RENBROOK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NAGEN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds REAL ART WAYS INC ↗
- Who funds ROB THE DRUMMER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW HOME & HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds GRACE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Hospitality Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CaringBridge ↗
- Who funds Pine Island Camp ↗
- Who funds SPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP ↗
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: Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · The Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb Memorial Charitable Trust · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edgemer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edgemer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- IQuilt Partnership Inc: 100% of income from government
- Real Art Ways Inc: 38% of income from government
- The Mark Twain Memorial: 22% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford: 20% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc: 14% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc: 6% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center: 5% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Connecticut Historical Society Connecticut Museum of Culture & History: 1% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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