California · Private foundation
Edgerton 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.
- $7.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
60% of Edgerton Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to California Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 33 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $39,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,477,900
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 58
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $107M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Edgerton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 44 | $3.0M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $2.4M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $2.4M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $3.1M | 64% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Medical Corps | $1,440,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Geffen Playhouse Inc | $1,003,750 | 5 | 2% |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | $625,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Theatre Communications Group Inc | $521,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Theater & Arts Foundation of San Diego County Dba la Jolla Playhouse | $438,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Occidental College | $421,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Manhattan Theatre Club Inc | $406,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Pacific Council on International Policy | $359,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Alliance College-Ready Public Schools Foundation | $350,000 | 3 | 3% |
| New York Shakespeare Festival | $312,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Edgerton Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 Shubert Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Weingart Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Fletcher Jones Foundation · Klm Foundation
How this is measured
About Edgerton Foundation
- How much does Edgerton Foundation give?
- Edgerton Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $7,458,353 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 58 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Edgerton Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (63%), Arts & Culture (23%), International (5%).
- Who are Edgerton Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: International Medical Corps ($1.4M), Geffen Playhouse Inc ($1.0M), Los Angeles Philharmonic Association ($626k).
- Does Edgerton Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edgerton Foundation 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 Edgerton Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Shubert Foundation Inc, California Community Foundation, Ibm International Foundation.
- Where is Edgerton Foundation based?
- Edgerton Foundation is based in CA.
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