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Edward Foundation

Edward Foundation follows the mission of endeavor health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

$4.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$4.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$20MArts & Culture$27kEmployment$10kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $4,158,242, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,494,200 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $335,958 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $47k
  • $250k+1 grant · $4.1M
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Edward Hospital$4,105,727
Gerald A & Karen A Kolschowsky Foundation Inc$17,015
Walter J and Edith E Best Foundation$10,000
Alfred Bersted Foundation$10,000
Illinois Tool Works Foundation$10,000
Walmart Inc Associates Health & Welfare Trust$5,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Walmart Inc Associates Health & Welfare Trust: $6k → 8%Gerald A & Karen A Kolschowsky Foundation Inc: $17k → 7%Walter J and Edith E Best Foundation: $10k → 14%EDWARD-ELMHURST HEALTHCARE: $53k → 7%Edward Hospital: $4.1M → 14%Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare: $10k → 7%Illinois Tool Works Foundation: $10k → 14%Edward Hospital: $9.5M → 7%EDWARD HOSPITAL: $2.2M → 7%Edward Hospital: $1.9M → 7%EDWARD HOSPITAL: $896k → 7%Edward Hospital: $491k → 7%NAPERVILLE PSYCHIATRIC VENTURES: $244k → 7%Edward Hospital: $243k → 7%NAPERVILLE PSYCHIATRIC VENTURES: $132k → 7%EDWARD HOSPITAL: $81k → 7%NAPERVILLE PSYSCHIATRIC VENTURES: $58k → 7%NAPERVILLE PSYSCHIATRIC VENTURES: $25k → 7%NAPERVILLE PSYSCHIATRIC VENTURES: $14k → 7%NAPERVILLE PSYCHIATRIC VENTURES: $8k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 3 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$20M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EH
    Edward Hospital
    8× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue +40%
  • NP
    Naperville Psychiatric Ventures
    6× · 2017–2023 · $481k · revenue +29%
  • EH
    Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare
    2× · 2022–2023 · $63k · revenue -74%

Funded once

  • GA
    GERALD A & KAREN A KOLSCHOWSKY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $17k · revenue 0%
  • IT
    ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +136%
  • BW
    BEST WALTER & EDITH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +5%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare Group

The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…

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2
Edwards Lifesciences Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations

Endeavor Health Clinical Operations follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health
4
Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare

Elmhurst memorial healthcare follows the mission of endeavor health. the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to providing clinical programs and services…

Health
5
Edward Foundation

Edward foundation follows the mission of endeavor health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

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6
Albert L and Elizabeth Jane Lange Perpetual
Philanthropy
7
Endeavor Health Medical Group

Endeavor Health Medical Group (EHMG) follows the mission of Endeavor Health. The mission of Endeavor Health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." Central to this mission is a commitment to providing clinical programs and…

Health
8
The Carl H and Edyth B Lindner Foundation
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9
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
10
Edelweiss Foundation
Philanthropy
11
The Albert F Egan Jr & Dorothy H Egan F
Health
12
The Edward and Patricia Mclaughlin Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edward Hospital; the most unlike its peers is Gerald a & Karen a Kolschowsky Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Edward Hospital: $19,342,571 · HealthEdward Hospital+2 more: $543,860 · HealthGERALD A & KAREN A KOLSCHOWSKY FOUNDATION INC: $17,015 · OtherILLINOIS TOOL WORKS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherBEST WALTER & EDITH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE BERSTED FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherWALMART INC ASSOCIATES' HEALTH & WELFARE TRUST: $5,500 · Other
Health$19,886,431Other$52,515

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEdward Hospital: $19,342,571 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetNaperville Psychiatric Ventures: $480,942 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetEdward-Elmhurst Healthcare: $62,918 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGERALD A & KAREN A KOLSCHOWSKY FOUNDATION INC: $17,015 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEST WALTER & EDITH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE BERSTED FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWALMART INC ASSOCIATES' HEALTH & WELFARE TRUST: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Edward Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Edward Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Edward Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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