· Private foundation
Joe and Pat Edwards Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
86% of Joe and Pat Edwards Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Central Ga Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Joe and Pat Edwards Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 26 organizations, $287k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $172k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CFCG J & P EDWARDS | $172,000 |
| ST GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $17,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $12,750 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CH ZEBULON | $10,000 |
| GORDON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VA DARDEN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FIVE LOAVES AND TWO FISHES | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,500 |
| MIDDLE GEORGIA COMM FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $2,000 |
| MOVE NOW FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| PIKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| J JOEL EDWARDS LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| GIRL TALK | $2,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVACY | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
60 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SGST GEORGES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC6× · 2018–2024 · $89k · revenue +42%
- TCTOWALIGA CASA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $7k · revenue +50%
- ESEmpty Stocking Fund Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- BCBARNESVILLE-LAMAR COMMUNITY FDNone grant, 2018 · $99k
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $18k
- FCFREDONIA CHURCH CEMETERY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Education and Research
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
The gordon research conferences, inc. provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of frontier research in the biological, chemical, physical and engineering sciences and their interfaces. *see schedule o*
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
How this is measured
45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 123 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GORDON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds TOWALIGA CASA INC ↗
- Who funds Empty Stocking Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLES CHRISTIAN TULLER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joe and Pat Edwards Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joe and Pat Edwards Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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