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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.

$17k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$56kHuman Services$44kRecreation & Sports$15kReligion$10kFood & Nutrition$9kArts & Culture$8kEducation$7kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$406k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VISTA HILL FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
HOPELINK$1,500
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY$1,000
BELLINGHAM 1ST CONGREGATION$1,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$1,000
FOOD BANK OF NORTH NEVADA$1,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$1,000
ARTS OF ALL NEVADA$1,000
Individual grant recipient$350
BOY SCOUT TROUP 19$350
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PROJECT CORNERSTONE: $2k → 8%VISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PACIFIC: $2k → 12%LEWIS CLARK UNIV: $2k → 12%LIONS SIGHTLIFE: $3k → 9%LIONS CAMP HORIZON: $3k → 10%SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 12%THE FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $2k → 7%AMERICAN ASSOC OF UNIV WOMEN: $3k → 8%VISTA HILL FDN: $5k → 11%LEWIS CLARK UNIV: $2k → 12%LIONS SIGHTLIFE: $3k → 9%LIONS CAMP HORIZON: $3k → 10%AAUW-ISPF: $2k → 8%VISTA HILL FDN: $5k → 11%LEWIS CLARK UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%LIONS SIGHTLIFE: $3k → 9%LIONS CAMP HORIZON: $2k → 10%AAUW-ISPF: $2k → 8%VISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%LIONS SIGHTLIFE: $2k → 9%LIONS CAMP HORIZON: $2k → 10%AMERICAN ASSOC OF UNIV WOMEN: $2k → 8%VISTA HILL FDN: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY UNITARIAN CHURCH: $2k → 9%LIONS CAMP HORIZON: $2k → 10%AAUW-ISPF: $2k → 8%VISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%SIGHTLIFE LIONS: $2k → 9%CAMP HORIZON: $2k → 10%AAUW-ISPF: $2k → 8%VISTA HILL FDN: $5k → 11%CAMP HORIZON: $2k → 10%AAUW-ISPF: $2k → 8%VISTA HILL FDN: $5k → 11%LIONS SIGHTLIFE: $2k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $4k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $3k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $2k → 11%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $2k → 11%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $2k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $2k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $2k → 11%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $2k → 11%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $2k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $2k → 11%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $2k → 11%RADY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $2k → 11%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$177k · 24 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +67% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
11

Total granted

$177k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+67%

Still filing today

21%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • VH
    VISTA HILL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +35%
  • H
    HOPELINK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +74%
  • LC
    LIONS CAMP HORIZON FOUNDATION 7506 GEMINI ST
    5× · 2017–2021 · $12k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • PC
    PROJECT CORNERSTONE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +67%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PACIFIC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • RC
    RADY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
Pomona College

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…

Education
2
Achievekids

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…

Education
3
Stem Advantage

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…

Youth Development
4
Partners in College Success

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,…

Education
5
United Way of North Central New Mexico

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…

Philanthropy
6
New Horizon School

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…

Education
7
Pacific Lutheran University

Plu seeks to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care - for other people, for the community and for the earth.

Education
8
Leadership New Mexico

Strengthening new mexico by educating and connecting diverse leaders through experiential learning programs and activities.

Arts & Culture
9
California Lutheran University

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.

Education
10
Cabrillo Education Foundation

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…

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11
Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley

To inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring adults.

Youth Development
12
Cen Cal Sports

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…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for All Nevada; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $17,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $14,000 · OtherUNITED CEREBRAL PALSYLIONS CAMP HORIZON FOUNDATION 7506 GEMINI ST: $11,500 · OtherLIONS CAMP HORIZON FOUNDATION 7506 GEMINI STIndividual grant recipient: $11,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientARTS OF ALL NEVADA: $5,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5,000 · OtherBELLINGHAM 1ST CONGREGATION: $4,000 · Other+18 more: $28,250 · Other+18 moreVISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthVISTA HILL FOUNDATIONHOPELINK: $17,500 · Human ServicesHOPELINKFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $8,500 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN AAUW-SAN JOSE BRANCH: $4,500 · EducationLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $1,000 · EducationCVHS MUSIC BOOSTERS: $350 · EducationPROJECT CORNERSTONE INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentARTS FOR ALL NEVADA: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$112,750Health$40,000Human Services$17,500Food & Nutrition$8,500Education$5,850Environment$2,000Arts & Culture$1,000

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 budgetVISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOPELINK: $17,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLIONS CAMP HORIZON FOUNDATION 7506 GEMINI ST: $11,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $8,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT CORNERSTONE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $1,000 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2023
’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 →median 1%
  • Lewis & Clark College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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.

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 35 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-PF 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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