Minnesota · Private foundation
Edwards Memorial Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $819k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 48
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Edwards Memorial Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $719k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $635k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $1.4M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $1.3M | 45% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $825k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $873k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Health Care Foundation | $875,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation | $400,000 | 5 | 1% |
| United Hospital Foundation | $395,834 | 2 | 5% |
| Union Gospel Mission Association of St Paul Inc | $340,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Fraser | $175,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hope Dental Clinic | $170,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Regions Hospital | $166,667 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Dental Care | $134,955 | 4 | 0% |
| Guild | $130,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Our Lady of Peace | $125,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($513k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Edwards Memorial Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Medica Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation
How this is measured
About Edwards Memorial Trust
- How much does Edwards Memorial Trust give?
- Edwards Memorial Trust reported 25 grants totaling $819,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 48 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Edwards Memorial Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (70%), Human Services (11%), Housing & Shelter (7%).
- Who are Edwards Memorial Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Children's Health Care Foundation ($875k), Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation ($400k), United Hospital Foundation ($396k).
- Does Edwards Memorial Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edwards Memorial Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Edwards Memorial Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation.
- Where is Edwards Memorial Trust based?
- Edwards Memorial Trust is based in MN.
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