Missouri · Private foundation
Edison Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $180k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2026
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 2
- Total assets, FY2026
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 9% of the organizations Edison Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 27 | $179k | 22% |
| FY2025 | 22 | $133k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $177k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $192k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $166k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $119k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $101k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Greater St Louis Inc | $165,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra | $152,000 | 7 | 0% |
| John Burroughs School | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Missouri Baptist Medical Center | $40,000 | 7 | n/a |
| St Louis Childrens Hospital | $35,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Barnes Jewish Hospital | $35,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | $32,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees | $31,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Operation Food Search Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Louis Regional Public Media Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($212k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Edison Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Edison Family Foundation
- How much does Edison Family Foundation give?
- Edison Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $180,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2025.
- What does Edison Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Philanthropy (22%), Health (17%).
- Who are Edison Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc ($165k), Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra ($152k), John Burroughs School ($100k).
- Does Edison Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edison Family 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 Edison Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Edward Jones Foundation, Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company, St Louis Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Edison Family Foundation based?
- Edison Family Foundation is based in MO.
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