Missouri · Private foundation
Irving & Beatrice C Edison 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.
- $59k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Irving & Beatrice C Edison Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $59k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $49k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $63k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $61k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $52k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $54k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $55k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $53k | 27% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Greater St Louis Inc | $131,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Gateway Pet Guardians | $30,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Missouri Baptist Healthcare Foundation | $25,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Temple Emanuel | $18,300 | 4 | n/a |
| Shriners Hospital for Children | $16,500 | 7 | 61% |
| Arthritis Foundation | $14,000 | 7 | n/a |
| John Burroughs School | $13,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | $6,750 | 8 | 0% |
| NAMI National | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($189k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Irving & Beatrice C Edison Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Centene Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Julian I & Hope R Edison Foundation Inc · Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation · Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission
How this is measured
Compare Irving & Beatrice C Edison Foundation with peer funders
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About Irving & Beatrice C Edison Foundation
- How much does Irving & Beatrice C Edison Foundation give?
- Irving & Beatrice C Edison Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $59,340 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Irving & Beatrice C Edison Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (33%), Health (21%), Education (17%).
- Who are Irving & Beatrice C Edison Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc ($131k), Gateway Pet Guardians ($31k), Missouri Baptist Healthcare Foundation ($26k).
- Does Irving & Beatrice C Edison Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Irving & Beatrice C Edison Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Irving & Beatrice C Edison Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Centene Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation.
- Where is Irving & Beatrice C Edison Foundation based?
- Irving & Beatrice C Edison Foundation is based in MO.
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