· Private foundation
Elizabeth McCarty Edwards 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSION FIRST | $20,000 |
| MISSION TO THE WORLD | $4,700 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| EQUIPPING LEADERS INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
| CRU | $2,500 |
| CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM | $2,500 |
| TAG'S KIDS CLUB | $2,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL MESSENGERS | $2,000 |
| THE NAVIGATORS | $1,500 |
| RUF | $1,500 |
| GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF ALCOHOLICS | $1,000 |
| ALL THINGS NEW MINISTRY | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MFMISSION FIRST INC6× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +184%
- IMInternational Messengers8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +55%
- RTREFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- FCFRENCH CAMP ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +63%
- JCJACKSON CLASSICAL SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
Training pastors in third world countries
Evangelist
To preach the Gospel, make disciples, teach & train.
The organizations mission is enhancing the legal distribution of free bibles and equipping and discipling pastors and trainers to use the word of god effectively.
We carried the gospel of Christ to many countries and trained men to lead local congregations in this ministry.
To spread the Gospel to the Middle East
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Training and equipping for evangelism in the christian faith.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equipping Leaders International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Living Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 30 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MISSION FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds International Messengers ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM ↗
- Who funds Belhaven University ↗
- Who funds REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds BEGINNING AGAIN IN CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds TAG KIDS CLUB ↗
- Who funds Equipping Farmers International ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ALCOHOLICS INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SERGE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Equipping Leaders International Inc ↗
- Who funds LOGOI INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ergon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Feild Co-Operative Association · Walker Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Henry & Martha Hederman Charitable Foundation · Make a Difference Foundation · Sam E & Burnice C Wittel Foundation · Howard & Mary Eliza McMillan Foundation · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis
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 Elizabeth McCarty Edwards Foundation 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.
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.