· Private foundation
Edwards 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 |
|---|---|
| VISTA HILL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| HOPELINK | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $1,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $1,000 |
| ARTS OF ALL NEVADA | $1,000 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY | $1,000 |
| BELLINGHAM 1ST CONGREGATION | $1,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTH NEVADA | $1,000 |
| BOY SCOUT TROUP 19 | $350 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +67% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- VHVISTA HILL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +35%
- HHOPELINK8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +74%
- LCLIONS CAMP HORIZON FOUNDATION 7506 GEMINI ST5× · 2017–2021 · $12k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- PCPROJECT CORNERSTONE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +67%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PACIFICone grant, 2017 · $2k
- RCRADY CHILDRENS HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…
Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
Partners in College Success (PiCS) ensures equal access to higher education and an equitable college experience for low-income, refugee, immigrant, foster, homeless and disadvantaged youth in San Diego County. PiCS provides dedicated,…
Uwncnm's mission is to connect people to opportunities and services to equitably improve lives and strengthen communities. that is done through direct service programs, community investment (grant making), community outreach (convening and…
To provide a successful learning environment for students with learning disabilities, attention deficits, and other learning differences. it offers a wide range of academic programs and extracurricular activities with accommodations to…
Plu seeks to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care - for other people, for the community and for the earth.
Strengthening new mexico by educating and connecting diverse leaders through experiential learning programs and activities.
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
Cef is serving as a student success innovation fund to promote new, creative and powerful initiatives to improve students' education in our community. it is an advocate for and funds high leverage programs that have well defined outcomes…
To inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring adults.
Cen Cal Sports is committed to empowering the Central Valleys underserved yet talented youth by creating opportunities for athletic, social, intellectual, and academic development. Through sports camps, clinics, tournaments, leagues, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for All Nevada and the most unlike its peers is Lewis & Clark College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 35 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 VISTA HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds LIONS CAMP HORIZON FOUNDATION 7506 GEMINI ST ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN AAUW-SAN JOSE BRANCH ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CORNERSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR ALL NEVADA ↗
- Who funds CVHS MUSIC BOOSTERS ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
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 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.
- Lewis & Clark College — 1% of income from government
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.