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Edwards Charitable 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPRING SPIRIT BASEBALL PROGRAM INC | $7,000 |
| SPRING BRANCH FAMILY DEVELOPMENT | $4,000 |
| SEARCH HOMELESS SERVICES | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON | $1,500 |
| BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $1,500 |
| CLASSROOM CENTRAL | $1,000 |
| GRACEWOOD CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG | $1,000 |
| BILLINGSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $850 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHARLOTTE | $500 |
| YELLOWSTONE PARK FOUNDATION | $500 |
| SMU FUND FOR SCHOLARSHIPS | $500 |
| DELTA DELTA DELTA FOUNDATION | $500 |
| WORLD VISION INC | $350 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of your 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.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- SBSPRING BRANCH HUMAN RESOURCES PARTNERSHIP INC7× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +12%
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC7× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +24%- BBBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $7k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- SISpringSpirit Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +55%
- MHMEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTER CLUBone grant, 2017 · $1k
- HCHouston Center for Literacyone 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.
In partnership with educators, CollegeSpring helps students impacted by poverty demonstrate their full potential on college and career readiness assessments that unlock better opportunities after high school. Our vision is that every…
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
In fiscal year 2025, the agency operated an americorps maker fellowship, placing 7 americorps vista members at 6 different education focused organizations in ca, ma, and ny. americorps members worked on capacity building projects to expand…
To provide academically able students with a challenging educational experience designed to help them know, love and practice that which is true, good and excellent, and to prepare them to live purposefully and intelligently in the service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools of Houston Inc and the most unlike its peers is Houston Center for Literacy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 29 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 SPRING BRANCH HUMAN RESOURCES PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc ↗
- Who funds St Edwards University ↗
- Who funds Freedom School Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds SpringSpirit Inc ↗
- Who funds CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Carolinas ↗
- Who funds FORTRESS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA DELTA DELTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Center for Literacy ↗
- Who funds SPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRIST SCHOOL 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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Edwards Charitable 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.