· Private foundation
Edwards Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $124k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CEDARS SINAI | $200,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTION | $100,000 |
| THE GLADSTONE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| HIGHER GROUND USA | $15,000 |
| WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY-STANFORD LIVE | $14,400 |
| THE KELSEY PROJECT | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| LOS GATOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LOS CABOS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| AIM HIGH | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS | $10,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TPTURNING POINT USA INC4× · 2019–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +304%
- PLPacific Legal Foundation7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +136%
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $410k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- COCause of Action Instituteone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue -92%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $100k
- HIHOOVER INSTITUTION-SUPPORT VDHone grant, 2019 · $100k
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.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
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…
To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
We welcome, educate, and empower a diverse community of learners for lives of meaning, impact, and joy.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 80 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 TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES ↗
- Who funds NEVADA CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cause of Action Institute ↗
- Who funds Augies Quest to Cure ALS Inc ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KATHERINE DELMAR BURKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH ↗
- Who funds NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CalMatters ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES ARMSTRONG SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds NEVADA OBSTETRICAL CHARITY CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND J FISHER HOME AND SCHOOL CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds THE PEGASUS SCHOOL ↗
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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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Daffy Charitable Fund · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edwards Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwards Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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