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Edwards Mother Earth Foundation

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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$425k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$4.8MFood & Nutrition$2.1MCommunity Improvement$207kHousing & Shelter$178kPublic Benefit$158kHuman Services$97kHealth$66kArts & Culture$58kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k40 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
$2,500
Median grant
16
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT$425,394
COOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOCIATION IN THE STATE OF$400,000
RODALE INSTITUTE$400,000
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSIT$397,295
RODALE INSTITUTE$50,323
ECOTRUST$50,000
AGROFORESTRY NORTHWEST$50,000
SPRING OF EVOLUTION INC$24,000
WHITESWAN ENVIRONMENTAL WE$12,000
TILTH ALLIANCE$10,000
COMMON POWER FUTURE$6,000
DUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES$6,000
BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$5,000
SPRING OF EVOLUTION INC$5,000
ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM$5,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–24, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMENS AND CHILDRENS ALLIANCE INC: $4k → 8%TRAX EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $750 → 11%MISSION BLUE FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 12%WIDOWED PARENT RELIEF PROJECT: $2k → 12%WOODLAND ACTION CENTER: $5k → 13%HARK-ALS INC: $6k → 5%FREEDOM INC: $500 → 10%ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM: $5k → 12%EMBRACE WASHINGTON: $500 → 12%WOODLAND ACTION CENTER: $5k → 13%GATHER MAKE SHELTER: $1k → 12%KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $7k → 12%WOODLAND ACTION CENTER: $5k → 13%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 10%EMBRACE WASHINGTON: $500 → 12%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 10%GATHER MAKE SHELTER: $1k → 12%WOODLAND ACTION CENTER: $3k → 13%ZERO TO THREE - NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLE: $500 → 14%FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC: $12k → 14%FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC: $9k → 14%FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC: $3k → 14%PEACE IN SCHOOLS: $4k → 12%PEACE IN SCHOOLS: $2k → 12%SEATTLE HOMELESS OUTREACH: $250 → 9%SEATTLE HOMELESS OUTREACH: $250 → 9%DESC HOBSON CLINIC QALICB: $1k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of Edwards Mother Earth Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Edwards Mother Earth Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 19% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 66 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
93

Total granted

$6.2M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+12%

Still filing today

88%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AS
    APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +113%
  • RI
    Rodale Institute
    2× · 2023–2024 · $850k · revenue +22%
  • CS
    COFAN SURVIVAL FUND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • I
    ICASTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $390k · revenue +79%
  • WC
    WATTTIME CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +220%
  • LF
    LHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -68%
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.

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350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
2
10000 Years Institute

10,000 Years Institute evaluates the ecological effects of human activities on natural environments, and promotes the maintenance and restoration of ecological integrity through the integration of reliable scientific information, sound…

Unclassified
3
Center for Sustainable Economy

Promoting economic sustainability

Environment
4
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
5
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
6
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
7
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
8
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
9
Stewardship Partners

Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of WA State. We collaborate with diverse interest groups to build bridges and find solutions that achieve mutual goals of environmental protection,…

Environment
10
Whatcom Land Trust

The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.

Environment
11
Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment
12
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compass Family Services; the most unlike its peers is Regenitech Fund Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

157 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. 157 of the 180 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
151/157
Grantees still filing
99/157
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSIT: $1,399,320 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERS…COOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOCIATION IN THE STATE OF N Y: $1,229,477 · OtherCOOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOCIATION IN THE STATE O…+115 more: $747,045 · Other+115 moreAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: $1,507,313 · Community ImprovementAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEV…ICAST: $390,000 · Community ImprovementICAST+5 more: $22,313 · Community ImprovementEpic Institute: $799,357 · EnvironmentEpic InstituteUnited States Endowment for Forestry: $105,000 · EnvironmentUnited States End…WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 · EnvironmentWASHINGTON CONSER…Agroforestry Northwest: $50,000 · Environment+34 more: $186,230 · Environment+34 moreRodale Institute: $850,323 · Food & NutritionRodale Insti…+5 more: $16,300 · Food & NutritionWATTTIME CORPORATION: $250,000 · Science & Tech+3 more: $4,490 · Science & TechLHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Public BenefitGIV COMMUNITIES: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC WILSHIRE RIVERSIDE LITTLE LEAGUE: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsSail Sand Point: $6,000 · Recreation & Sports+4 more: $7,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,375,842Community Improvement$1,919,626Environment$1,240,587Food & Nutrition$866,623Science & Tech$254,490Public Benefit$150,000Recreation & Sports$121,000

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 budgetAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: $1,507,313 over 4y, 14% of budgetRodale Institute: $850,323 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetEpic Institute: $799,357 over 3y, 77% of budgetICAST: $390,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWATTTIME CORPORATION: $250,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetLHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetUnited States Endowment for Forestry: $105,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGIV COMMUNITIES: $100,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVerde Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetEARTH ADVANTAGE: $90,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetECOTRUST: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOFAN SURVIVAL FUND INC: $40,875 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetSPRING OF EVOLUTION INC: $29,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRe-evaluation Foundation: $28,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSPARK NORTHWEST: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTILTH ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC: $24,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetDUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES DBA DUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES INC: $24,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HUMAN MOVEMENT STUDIES INC: $18,500 over 4y, 21% of budgetWOODLAND ACTION CENTER: $18,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBoise State University Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Williams Project: $12,900 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetWHITESWAN ENVIRONMENTAL WE: $12,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $11,625 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $9,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Bay: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMOUNT ST HELENS INSTITUTE: $7,805 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMON POWER FUTURE: $7,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC WILSHIRE RIVERSIDE LITTLE LEAGUE: $7,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHOPELINK: $7,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $7,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $7,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWILD PROJECTS: $7,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $6,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFilm Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre: $6,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG: $6,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPEACE IN SCHOOLS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEvergreen Mountain Bike Alliance: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOccidental Arts and Ecology Center: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARK-ALS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSail Sand Point: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP: $5,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOPULATION CONNECTION: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% 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.

Seattle FoundationThe Bullitt FoundationPatagoniaorgRsf Social Finance IncLucky Seven FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…Meyer Memorial TrustPuget Sound Energy Fo…The Schmidt Family Fo…Clif Family FoundationThe Nature ConservancyThe Oregon Community …
Seattle FoundationWA32.8× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Lucky Seven Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Meyer Memorial Trust · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · The Oregon Community 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 Mother Earth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwards Mother Earth Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
  • Earth Advantage: 13% of income from government
  • Gather Make Shelter: 7% of income from government
  • Verde Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Artist Mentorship Program: 2% of income from government
  • Columbia Riverkeeper: 1% of income from government
  • Real Organic Project Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
46report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Edwards Mother Earth Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 180 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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