Texas · Private foundation
Jes Edwards Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2026
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 35
- FY2020 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 6
- Total assets, FY2026
- $21M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 10% of the organizations Jes Edwards Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 27 | $1.2M | 19% |
| FY2025 | 21 | $831k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $990k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $1.0M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $1.0M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $988k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $908k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mission India | $643,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Texas Baptist Men Inc | $510,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Apollo Support & Rescue Inc | $355,000 | 7 | 7% |
| Recovery Resource Council | $280,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Concerned Citizens of Jack Co Inc | $275,000 | 7 | 8% |
| Unthsc Foundation | $245,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Cedar Creek Veterans Foundation | $244,000 | 6 | 73% |
| The Independence Fund Inc | $236,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Fort Worth Museum of Science and History | $232,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Mercy Ships International | $210,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jes Edwards Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 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: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Morris Foundation · R4 Foundation · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Amon G Carter Foundation · America's Charities · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation
How this is measured
About Jes Edwards Foundation
- How much does Jes Edwards Foundation give?
- Jes Edwards Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $1,191,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
- What does Jes Edwards Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Religion (23%), Health (12%).
- Who are Jes Edwards Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Mission India ($643k), Texas Baptist Men Inc ($510k), Apollo Support & Rescue Inc ($355k).
- Does Jes Edwards Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jes Edwards Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jes Edwards Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc.
- Where is Jes Edwards Foundation based?
- Jes Edwards Foundation is based in TX.
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