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Elizabeth McCarty Edwards Foundation at a glance

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Elizabeth McCarty Edwards Foundation

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.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$381kEducation$80kCrime & Legal$14kHousing & Shelter$13kRecreation & Sports$12kInternational$10kHealth$7kHuman Services$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$454k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSION FIRST$20,000
MISSION TO THE WORLD$4,200
EQUIPPING LEADERS INTERNATIONAL$3,000
CRU$2,500
CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM$2,500
GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION$2,500
GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK$2,500
THE NAVIGATORS$2,000
INTERNATIONAL MESSENGERS$2,000
RUF$1,500
FRIENDS OF ALCOHOLICS$1,000
ALL THINGS NEW MINISTRY$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $16k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 11%THE GLEANERS: $500 → 23%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 11%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 11%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 11%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 11%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 11%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 11%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 11%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 11%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

MI
IA
PA
CO
TN
NC
MS
AL
GA
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$546k · 24 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -22% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
6

Total granted

$546k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-22%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthOther
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

  • MF
    MISSION FIRST INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +184%
  • IM
    International Messengers
    9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +55%
  • GR
    GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • FC
    FRENCH CAMP ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +63%
  • JC
    JACKSON CLASSICAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

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…

Religion
2
Global Gospel Initiative Inc
Religion
3
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
4
Bowlin Ministries Nc

Evangelist

Religion
5
Training Pastors International

Training pastors in third world countries

Religion
6
Go With God Global

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.

Religion
7
Equipping Servants International Inc

To preach the Gospel, make disciples, teach & train.

Religion
8
Buses International

Buses international (dba mobile outreach solutions) is a non-deominational and interdependent ministry committed to seeing the gospel of jesus christ spread to every nation.

International
9
International Prayer Ministries Inc

Training and equipping for evangelism in the christian faith.

Religion
10
Bridge the Gap International Inc

Train and send missionaries to foreign countries to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
11
Awakening Ministries International

Proclaim the gospel worldwide, prepare followers of jesus christ, and propel those into their god given destiny.

Religion
12
Reaching Souls International Inc

Our mission is in our name - Reaching Souls. Our core driving force, the reason we exist as an organization, is to reach souls for Christ. Our strategic purpose is to reach the maximum number of people for Christ in the least amount of…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equipping Leaders International Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 31 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSION FIRST INC: $130,000 · OtherMISSION FIRST INCMISSION TO THE WORLD: $74,300 · OtherMISSION TO THE WORLDEMERALD MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherEMERALD MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLRUF: $21,500 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $18,500 · OtherCRU: $18,000 · OtherCEF OF GREATER JACKSON AREA: $15,000 · Other+12 more: $81,300 · Other+12 moreInternational Messengers: $36,000 · ReligionInternational Me…CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM: $30,000 · ReligionCHILDREN OF ABRA…TAG KIDS CLUB: $11,500 · ReligionTAG KIDS CLUBEquipping Leaders International Inc: $8,000 · ReligionEquipping Leader…Belhaven University: $25,000 · EducationBelhaven …REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $15,000 · EducationREFORMED …FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationFRENCH CA…GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC: $2,500 · EducationGATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC: $15,500 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesEquipping Farmers International: $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ALCOHOLICS INC: $7,500 · Health
Other$408,600Religion$85,500Education$47,500Human Services$16,000International$10,000Health$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMISSION FIRST INC: $130,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetInternational Messengers: $36,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN OF ABRAHAM: $30,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetBelhaven University: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC: $15,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetREFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEGINNING AGAIN IN CHRIST INC: $13,500 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetTAG KIDS CLUB: $11,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetEquipping Farmers International: $10,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetEquipping Leaders International Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ALCOHOLICS INC: $7,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetLIVING SERVICES INC: $6,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSERGE GLOBAL INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRENCH CAMP ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOGOI INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGLEANERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds MISSION FIRST INC ↗
  • Who funds International Messengers ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM ↗
  • Who funds Belhaven University ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds BEGINNING AGAIN IN CHRIST INC ↗
  • Who funds TAG KIDS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Equipping Farmers International ↗
  • Who funds Equipping Leaders International Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ALCOHOLICS INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVING SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SERGE GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds LOGOI INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds GLEANERS INC ↗

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.

Ergon Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Feild Co-Operative As…Walker FoundationRaymond James Charita…Henry & Martha Hederm…Make a Difference Fou…Sam E & Burnice C Wit…Howard & Mary Eliza M…Van Devender Family F…Servant FoundationChristian Community F…
Ergon Foundation IncMS19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 31 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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