· Private foundation
Edgemon 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k53 grants · $135k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIVE WELL | $100,000 |
| PARKINSON'S VOICE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| CASA DE VIDA | $10,000 |
| GIVE DIRECTLY | $10,000 |
| GIVE WELL | $10,000 |
| ELMWOOD FARMS | $6,000 |
| KULUNTU BAKERY CHARITY | $6,000 |
| NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY OF TEXAS | $5,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA - ADDITIONAL | $5,000 |
| TEXAS TRIBUNE | $5,000 |
| BETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION- ADDITIONAL | $5,000 |
| CISTERCIAN PREPARATORY SCHOOL-MONASTIC FUND | $5,000 |
| OPEN DANCE PROJECT | $5,000 |
| LADY BIRD JOHNSON WILDFLOWER CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 10 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TCTHE CLEAR FUND6× · 2019–2024 · $672k · revenue +428%
- PVPARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC5× · 2020–2024 · $168k · revenue +20%
GIVEDIRECTLY INC3× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +302%
Funded once
- CPCISTERCIAN PREP SCHOOL- FATHER ROCHone grant, 2023 · $5k
- CMCISTERICAN- MONASTIC FUNDone grant, 2023 · $5k
- EDEARTH DAY TEXAS INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Trinity Park Conservancy champions the transformation of the Trinity River to become the heart of Dallas. With the community, the Conservancy will design public spaces that unite us, enrich people's lives through access to nature, create…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca of Texas and the most unlike its peers is Kimbell Art Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 102 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Native Plant Society of Texas ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WILDFLOWER DONOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
- Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARCHITECTURE FORUM ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CONTEMPORARY ↗
- Who funds Free Software Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SLOW FOOD USA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Texas Instruments Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Libra Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005 · The Joe M & Doris R Dealey Family Foundation · The Summerlee Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Edgemon Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- First Americans Museum Foundation — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.