· Private foundation
Edwin J Wadas Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $131k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $279k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $453k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUDDA DAME THUKA TEMPLE | $250,000 |
| UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $237,715 |
| TOWN OF TRENTON | $113,813 |
| HERKIMER COUNTY CHAPTER NYSARC INC | $101,509 |
| ROME BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC | $35,000 |
| BOONVILLE YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $32,606 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,510 |
| Individual grant recipient | $28,187 |
| FRIENDS OF WOODCRAFT | $24,961 |
| DOLGEVILLE POP WARNER FOOTBALL | $21,726 |
| UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $16,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,548 |
| CENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE AND RECOVERY | $14,918 |
| ROME GIRLS SOFTBALL LEAGUE | $12,485 |
| KELBERMAN CENTER | $12,010 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
91 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 75 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $714k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ICINTEGRATED COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES NETWORK INC3× · 2019–2023 · $80k · revenue +155%
- TMTHE MIDTOWN UTICA COMMUNITY CENTER INC4× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +881% · 45% of their budget
- CSCOLISEUM SOCCER CLUB INC3× · 2023–2025 · $46k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- WYWESTMORELAND YOUTH BASEBALL AND SOFTBALLone grant, 2023 · $249k
- MYMID YORK LIBRARY SYSTEMone grant, 2024 · $147k · revenue -8%
- IICANone grant, 2022 · $111k
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.
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.
Youth sports and recreation for all to help develop social skills.
Recreational soccer program
Promote hockey to urban youth ages 3-18 years old in the utica,ny and surrounding areas.
Our year long baseball related programs help to teach all facets of the sport while achieving the highest level of team play and sportsmanship to over 100 youths.
Community youth soccer league
To foster growth and development of youth under the age of 19 through the sport of soccer. the league administers the orderly management of the governmental affairs of the game of soccer in the amityville area through the work of…
To provide a place for youth to play organized sports in the eastern york area.
The york youth soccer league (yysl) is a non profit organization dedicated to providing the youth of york county with the opportunity to participate in a recreational soccer league.
Childrens Recreational Sports Association
Organized to construct, own, operate and maintain recreational facilities and grounds and all usual and necessary accessories to conduct baseball games, athletic sport, exhibitions and places of amusement and recreation
To implant firmly in the youth of the community the ideas of sportsmanship, honesty, loyalty, courage, and reverence by participating in organized soccer
Play little league baseball
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 235 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · Bank of Utica Foundation Inc · Indium Corporation and Macartney Family Foundation Inc · Utica National Group Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mohawk Valley Inc · Rome Community Foundation · Joseph and Inez E Carbone Foundation · The Rob Esche Save of the Day Foundation Inc · Hazen B Hinman Sr Foundation Inc · The James H Wurz Jr and Edward T Wurz Sr Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edwin J Wadas Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwin J Wadas Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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