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Edwards Memorial Trust at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$25,000
WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN$25,000
OPEN ARMS$25,000
EBENEZER SOCIETY FOUNDATION$25,000
FRASER$25,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION$25,000
MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES INC$20,000
ST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS$20,000
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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Its 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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

+23%
+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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/59
Grantees still filing
42/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $120,000 over 6y, 0.2% 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 budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVISION LOSS RESOURCES INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.6% 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 budgetAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS: $65,000 over 4y, 0.9% 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 budgetFAMILY VOICES OF MINNESOTA: $40,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetANGEL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFamilyWise Services: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAEON: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLiving Well Disability Services: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHANGE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

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.

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

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 Memorial Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwards Memorial Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
    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 84 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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