· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $1,500 |
| BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG | $1,000 |
| CLASSROOM CENTRAL | $1,000 |
| GRACEWOOD CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| BILLINGSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $850 |
| DELTA DELTA DELTA FOUNDATION | $500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHARLOTTE | $500 |
| YELLOWSTONE PARK FOUNDATION | $500 |
| SMU FUND FOR SCHOLARSHIPS | $500 |
| WORLD VISION INC | $350 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds SpringSpirit 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edwards Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwards Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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