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Marguerite R Edwards Civic Imp & Act Trust at a glance

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Marguerite R Edwards Civic Imp & Act Trust

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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$38kHuman Services$19kPhilanthropy$11kYouth Development$7kHealth$7kFood & Nutrition$5kRecreation & Sports$4kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$5,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$346k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACC FOUNDATION$10,500
ALVIN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,500
ALVIN YOUTH LIVESTOCK & ARENA ASSN$2,000
ALVIN BLUE SANTA$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%HAND IN HAND CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $3k → 10%HAND-IN-HAND CHILD DEV CENTER: $3k → 10%HAND-IN-HAND CHILD DEV CENTER: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66k · 9 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$66k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+138%

Still filing today

56%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AI
    ALVIN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $14k · revenue +270%
  • AY
    Alvin Youth Livestock and Arena Assoc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +19%
  • DM
    DAVINCI MAKER LABS
    2× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • AC
    ALVIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • AM
    Alvin Manvel Community Food Pantry
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Alcon Children's Vision Center
Health
2
South Texas Youth Soccer Association

Alvin Youth Soccer Club is operating as a non-profit organization providing local area youth the opportunities to play soccer in a league setting. All coaches, board members, trainers and parents are strictly volunteer. e utilize the…

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3
Acr Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Aldrich Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Albion High School Alumni Foundation
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6
Benjamin James Garcia Memorial Scholarship Fund

To receive donations that are tax deductable to donors

Education
7
Aldridge Gives Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Alderwood Little League

Baseball and softball little league

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9
Alamo Regional Academy

Encourage Education Through Scientific Research.

Science & Tech
10
The Alcon Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
11
The Arc of Texas

Enrichment and academic services and programs for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities

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12
Allen House

To maintain the allen house as a historic community center.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alvin Little League Baseball Inc; the most unlike its peers is Acc Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALVIN BLUE SANTA: $11,250 · OtherALVIN BLUE SANTAALVIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $8,300 · OtherALVIN COMMUNITY COLLEGEACC COLLEGE & CAREER PATHWAYS: $7,500 · OtherACC COLLEGE & CAREER PATHWAYSIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALVIN ISD: $4,540 · OtherALVIN ISDACC CHILD DEV LAB SCHOOL: $4,410 · OtherACC CHILD DEV LAB SCHOOLACC FOUNDATION SUMMER CHILDREN'S TH: $2,500 · OtherACC FOUNDATION SUMMER CHILDREN'S TH+2 more: $1,000 · OtherALVIN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $13,700 · PhilanthropyALVIN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDAT…ACC FOUNDATION: $10,500 · PhilanthropyACC FOUNDATIONAlvin Youth Livestock and Arena Assoc: $7,200 · Youth DevelopmentAlvin Yout…DAVINCI MAKER LABS: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentDAVINCI MA…HAND IN HAND CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $7,500 · Human ServicesThe Arc of the Gulf Coast: $7,000 · HealthAlvin Manvel Community Food Pantry: $4,900 · Food & NutritionAlvin Little League Baseball Inc: $3,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$44,500Philanthropy$24,200Youth Development$9,700Human Services$7,500Health$7,000Food & Nutrition$4,900Recreation & Sports$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALVIN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $13,700 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetHAND IN HAND CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAlvin Youth Livestock and Arena Assoc: $7,200 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetThe Arc of the Gulf Coast: $7,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetDAVINCI MAKER LABS: $2,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budget
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 ALVIN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ACC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAND IN HAND CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Alvin Youth Livestock and Arena Assoc ↗
  • Who funds The Arc of the Gulf Coast ↗
  • Who funds Alvin Manvel Community Food Pantry ↗
  • Who funds Alvin Little League Baseball Inc ↗
  • Who funds DAVINCI MAKER LABS ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marguerite R Edwards Civic Imp & Act Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marguerite R Edwards Civic Imp & Act Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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