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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 FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Health$4.5MHuman Services$740kHousing & Shelter$443kFood & Nutrition$280kEducation$120kAnimals$73kReligion$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $438k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $375k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOC OF ST PAUL$200,000
REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$100,000
GILLETTE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$75,000
OUR LADY OF PEACE$35,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MN ND SD$30,000
TUBMAN$30,000
LAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION$25,000
EBENEZER SOCIETY FOUNDATION$25,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$25,000
OPEN ARMS$25,000
WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN$25,000
FRASER$25,000
MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES INC$20,000
GUILD$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $827k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 14%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $25k → 11%OPEN ARMS: $25k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $25k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $15k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $10k → 11%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST P: $50k → 14%FRASER: $50k → 11%FRASER: $30k → 11%FRASER: $25k → 11%FRASER: $25k → 11%FRASER: $25k → 11%FRASER: $20k → 11%CHANGE INC: $10k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $15k → 11%CORNERSTONE ADVOCACY SERVICE: $7k → 11%CHANGE INC: $10k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $35k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $30k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $30k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $30k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOC OF ST PAUL: $200k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOC OF ST PAUL: $50k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOC OF ST PAUL: $40k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.9M · 46 repeat orgs$846k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
34

Total granted

$4.9M
$823k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+17%

Still filing today

87%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther

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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $875k · revenue +89%
  • GC
    Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation
    5× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +21%
  • UG
    UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $340k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • RH
    REGIONS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $167k · revenue +20%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue +57%
  • AH
    ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $83k · revenue -16%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
Fairview Health Services

Mission: Fairview is driven to heal, discover and educate for longer, healthier lives. Vision: Fairview is driving a healthier future. Values: Dignity: We value the uniqueness of each person and work to ensure everyone's right to privacy.…

Health
3
Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital

Provide quality, accessible, and valuable health care services via a hospital, home health agency, and clinic to the surrounding rural community.

Health
4
Healtheast Woodwinds Hospital

Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.

Health
5
Healtheast St John's Hospital

Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.

Health
6
Range Regional Health Services

Range Regional Health Services is an integrated health care system meeting the needs of our patients in an exemplary manner.

Health
7
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
8
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
9
Group Health Inc

Our mission is to improve health and well-being in partnership with our members, patients and community.

Health
10
Cerenity Senior Care

The mission of cerenity senior care's faith-based communities is to cultivate independence and dignity by empowering the people we serve through innovation, compassion and excellence.

Health
11
Park Nicollet Group Return

To improve health and well-being in partnership with our members, patients and community.

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12
Ucare Minnesota

Ucare will improve the health of our members through innovative services and partnerships across communities.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bellis. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Foundations and G…Environmental Conservation …Social Justice Legal Servic…Community Arts OrganizationsBusiness Advocacy & Economi…Family FoundationsSenior Housing & Care Servi…Food Assistance & Hunger Re…Christian Faith Development
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr15%37%35–55yr13%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr19%32%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr13%31%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
14%
1,904/13,206

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.

04the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 84 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/59
Grantees still filing
41/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $875,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $708,333 · HealthREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONGillette Children's Hospital Foundation — $400,000 · HealthGillette Children's Hospital FoundationREGIONS HOSPITAL — $166,667 · HealthCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE — $134,955 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC — $122,500 · Health+17 more — $1,088,413 · Health+17 moreUNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $395,834 · OtherUNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONHOPE DENTAL CLINIC — $170,000 · OtherHOPE DENTAL CLINICGuild — $130,000 · OtherGuildMENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES INC — $120,000 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES INCVISION LOSS RESOURCES INC — $75,000 · OtherTASKS UNLIMITED — $72,500 · OtherCAN DO CANINES — $72,500 · Other+40 more — $810,500 · Other+40 moreUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC — $340,000 · Human ServicesUNION GOSPEL M…FRASER — $175,000 · Human ServicesFRASEROUR LADY OF PEACE — $125,000 · Human ServicesOUR LADY OF PE…OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA — $120,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF M…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $40,000 · Human Services+2 more — $26,500 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $120,000 · EducationCAMP SWEET LIFE ADVENTURES INC — $5,000 · EducationSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $75,000 · Food & NutritionAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC — $65,000 · ReligionHOPE HOUSE OF ST CROIX VALLEY — $21,000 · Housing & ShelterAEON — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterEMMA NORTON SERVICES — $15,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$3,495,868Other$1,846,334Human Services$826,500Education$125,000Food & Nutrition$75,000Religion$65,000Housing & Shelter$56,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $875,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $708,333 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetGillette Children's Hospital Foundation — $400,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $395,834 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC — $340,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFRASER — $175,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE DENTAL CLINIC — $170,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL — $166,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE — $134,955 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGuild — $130,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOUR LADY OF PEACE — $125,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC — $122,500 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA — $120,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES INC — $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAMM MEMORIAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC — $115,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTUBMAN — $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWashburn Center for Children — $95,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC — $85,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $83,333 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA — $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVISION LOSS RESOURCES INC — $75,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAN DO CANINES — $72,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEbenezer Society Foundation — $72,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetEAST SIDE ELDERS — $68,080 over 2y, 50% of budgetST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS — $65,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $57,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALIVENESS PROJECT INC — $45,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetKeystone Community Services — $40,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY VOICES OF MINNESOTA — $40,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB TWIN CITIES INC — $37,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES TOO — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetComoConnects — $35,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetHUDSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS — $33,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST ANTHONY PARK AREA SENIORS — $31,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetPEOPLE INCORPORATED — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGENDER JUSTICE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF ST CROIX VALLEY — $21,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLiving Well Disability Services — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAEON — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHANGE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFamilyWise Services — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…Fred C and Katherine …Fr Bigelow FoundationHardenbergh FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…The Minneapolis Found…Hugh J Andersen Found…Andersen Corporate Fo…Medica FoundationMightycause Charitabl…The Hubbard Broadcast…
Otto Bremer TrustMN64.3× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Memorial Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 84 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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