· Private foundation
Edwards Lifesciences Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k115 grants · $446k
- $10k–50k76 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+10 grants · $4.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $1,523,928 |
| THE THORACIC SURGERY FOUNDATION | $550,000 |
| PYXERA GLOBAL INC | $370,000 |
| UNITED WAY ORANGE COUNTY | $356,097 |
| MATCHING GIFTS US - ORANGE COUNTY | $305,879 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $300,000 |
| MATCHING GIFTS US - OTHER | $258,534 |
| LUCILE PACKARD CHLIDREN'S HOSPITAL STANFORD | $250,000 |
| PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THORACIC SURGERY | $250,000 |
| STANFORD BYERS CENTER FOR BIODESIGN | $232,000 |
| UNITED WAY ORANGE COUNTY | $207,938 |
| HEART TO HEART GLOBAL CARDIAC CARE | $200,000 |
| AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY FOUNDATION | $190,000 |
| CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL | $170,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $509k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of Edwards Lifesciences Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
455 repeat relationships — 127 still active in FY2024, 328 since wound down; 25 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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
- TTTHE THORACIC SURGERY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +118%
- PGPYXERA GLOBAL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +75%
- ACAmerican College of Cardiology Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $933k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- CACHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICAone grant, 2021 · $216k
- AHAMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC - NATIONAL CEone grant, 2020 · $204k
- HVHEART VALVE VOICE USone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -69%
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
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.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Huazhong University of Science and Technology Alumni Association of Seattle. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
1110 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. 1110 of the 1,384 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds THE THORACIC SURGERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PYXERA GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Heart to Heart Global Cardiac Care ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds American College of Cardiology Foundation ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY USA ↗
- Who funds AATS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CRITICAL CARE NURSES ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Heineman-Robicsek Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CEO LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Team Heart Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds OCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR AGING RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MITRAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARRHYTHMIA ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THORACIC SURGERY ↗
- Who funds ALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
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: Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · O L Halsell Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Oneoc · The Devto Support Foundation · Orange County's United Way · Samueli Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable Trust · Charitable Ventures of Orange County
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 Lifesciences 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% 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.
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