· Private foundation
Margaret Watt Edwards Foundation Attn Bronwen Edwards-Denney Co-Trustee
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $36,500 |
| BLOSSER CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA RESOURCES | $19,500 |
| GRACE MEMORIAL EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $18,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH | $10,000 |
| WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| OREGON NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL DBA OREGON WILD | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC | $5,000 |
| WEBB SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL CITY CONCERN | $5,000 |
| PACIFIC YOUTH CHOIR | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| OREGON FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| ANIMAL AID | $3,800 |
| OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION | $2,600 |
| OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $2,600 |
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 (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 11% of Margaret Watt Edwards Foundation Attn Bronwen Edwards-Denney Co-Trustee’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.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 8 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
THE BLOSSER CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA RESOURCES9× · 2017–2025 · $214k · revenue +55%- MIMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE6× · 2017–2022 · $193k · revenue +33%
- PYPACIFIC YOUTH CHOIR9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- PPPORTLAND POLICE BUREAU SUNSHINE DIVISIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SOSISTER'S OF ST MARY'Sone grant, 2020 · $3k
- FOFRIENDS OF BATES COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
The purpose and mission of the foundation are, acting on its own or through affiliates, to support and assist the university of oregon in its activities by management and administration of foundation assets representing privately donated…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Pursuing excellence in research learning and engagement to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society across British Columbia Canada and the world.
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
The university of portland, an independently governed catholic university guided by the congregation of holy cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.
See schedule othe purpose and mission of the organization is to support and assist the university of oregon foundation in its activities by management and administration of organization assets representing privately donated funds, by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Public Broadcasting and the most unlike its peers is Grace Institute. 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 34 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 THE BLOSSER CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC YOUTH CHOIR ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Central City Concern ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC ↗
- Who funds Grace Institute ↗
- Who funds THE WEBB SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds CEEDS OF PEACE ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds OREGON OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds TUALATIN HILLS SWIM CLUB ↗
- Who funds DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAI'I LGBT LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Margaret Watt Edwards Foundation Attn Bronwen Edwards-Denney Co-Trustee 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild — 2% of income from government
- Pacific Youth Choir — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Western Rivers Conservancy — 0% of income from government
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.