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Edison Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $25,000 |
| ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $17,500 |
| GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS | $10,000 |
| BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ST LOUIS | $5,000 |
| MISSOURI BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| PARENTS AS TEACHERS | $5,000 |
| ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH | $5,000 |
| ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CTR | $5,000 |
| NINE NETWORK OF PUBLIC MEDIA | $5,000 |
| MISSOURI HISTORY MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN | $5,000 |
| ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- SLSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA6× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +63%
- JBJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +42%
- DDDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER6× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
- SLST LOUIS VARIETY CLUBone grant, 2017 · $1k
- CRCARDINAL RITTER COLLEGE PREPone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
Support the st. louis science center and its comprehensive array of educational outreach programs to the community in order to increase interest, understanding and enthusiasm for stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
The university's mission is to educate and advance communities of discovery to foster a healthier society.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Food Search Inc and the most unlike its peers is Humane Society of Monroe County Il. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 30 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER ST LOUIS ARTS AND EDUCATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI COLLEGES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Monroe County IL ↗
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: Edward Jones Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Julian I & Hope R Edison Foundation Inc · Rga Foundation · Eric P & Evelyn E Newman Charitable Foundation Dtd 8/1/2013
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 Edison 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.
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.
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