· Private foundation
Jes Edwards Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $500
- $10k–50k14 grants · $365k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $466k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSION INDIA | $100,000 |
| TEXAS ON MISSION | $100,000 |
| LIFE HOUSE CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH | $80,000 |
| THE WARM PLACE | $65,500 |
| APOLLO SUPPORT & RESCUE | $65,000 |
| CONCERNED CITIZENS OF JACK COUNTY INC | $55,000 |
| RECOVERY RESOURCE COUNCIL | $40,000 |
| THE INDEPENDENCE FUND | $40,000 |
| UNBOUND NOW | $40,000 |
| CAL FARLEY'S | $40,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $30,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT CO | $25,000 |
| FORT WORTH MUSEUM SCIENCE & HISTORY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $630k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Jes Edwards Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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
- ASAPOLLO SUPPORT & RESCUE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $255k · revenue +36%
- UFUNTHSC FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $245k · revenue +126%
- RRRecovery Resource Council6× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- UHUNT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $75k
- CCCANCER CARE SERVICESone grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue -8%
- SGSLAVIC GOSPEL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $60k
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.
Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.
A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.
Through a coordinated community response, the forensic center empowers victims, promotes healing and creates innovative and comprehensive solutions to fill gaps in victim services.
To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.
Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.
When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…
Achieving permanent sanctuary and healing homes for children and families from hard places.
Hospice of east texas seeks to enhance the quality of life for individuals and families dealing with life-limiting illness and to assist bereaved family members by providing comprehensive, coordinated care and support.
Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
Halo House's mission is to help save the lives of cancer patients battling leukemia, lymphoma, or myeloma by providing them with low-cost, fully furnished temporary housing while undergoing active cancer treatment at the Texas Medical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Recovery Resource Council and the most unlike its peers is Concerned Citizens of Jack Co Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 60 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 APOLLO SUPPORT & RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds UNTHSC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Recovery Resource Council ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED CITIZENS OF JACK CO INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds The Independence Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds CEDAR CREEK VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRUITS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ADDYS HOPE SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds UNBOUND NOW ↗
- Who funds SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GLADYS JOHNSON RITCHIE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FOR LOVE & ART ↗
- Who funds SINACA STUDIOS - SCHOOL OF GLASS AND GALLERY ↗
- Who funds CANCER CARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE PARENTING CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds UP WITH DOWN INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds HOPE LOCAL ↗
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: 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
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 Jes 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.