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Noland Edwards Family Foundation at a glance

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Noland Edwards Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$270k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.0MArts & Culture$850kCrime & Legal$20kHuman Services$17k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY$50,000
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN ARTS$50,000
VIRGINIA MUSEUM FINE ARTS$50,000
PRATT INSTITUTE$50,000
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART$25,000
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION$25,000
SAVE VENICE INC$15,000
MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (FY17–17, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEW FUTURES: $17k → 14%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 14 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
3

Total granted

$1.8M
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+328%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • PI
    PRATT INSTITUTE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $360k · revenue +23%
  • CN
    CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $200k · revenue +71%
  • MC
    MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • NF
    NEW FUTURESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +328%
  • TB
    THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $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.

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
International Academy of Fine Art

The florence acadamy of art was founed in 1991 by daniel graves (see schedule o for details).

International
2
Newport Art Museum and Art Association

The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…

Arts & Culture
3
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
4
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
5
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
6
Berggruen Institute
Education
7
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
8
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
9
Baltimore Museum of Art

The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…

Arts & Culture
10
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
11
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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12
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Newport News Public Art Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Abdelkader Education Project. 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

14 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. 14 of the 19 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)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $340,000 · OtherVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSCHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY: $275,000 · OtherCHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITYTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $100,000 · OtherTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTSPRATT: $50,000 · OtherPRATTGUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED: $30,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherPRATT INSTITUTE: $360,000 · EducationPRATT INSTITUTEOLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC: $230,000 · EducationOLDFIELDS SCHOOL INCCHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationCHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDA…DELAWARE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $50,000 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE …MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Arts & CultureMAGNUM CU…THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILL…National Gallery of Art: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNational …NEWPORT NEWS PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNEWPORT N…THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BOARD…ABDELKADER EDUCATION PROJECT: $50,000 · Community ImprovementSAVE VENICE INC: $40,000 · InternationalFEAR 2 FREEDOM INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalNEW FUTURES: $17,000 · Human Services
Other$805,000Education$790,000Arts & Culture$165,000Community Improvement$50,000International$40,000Crime & Legal$20,000Human Services$17,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPRATT INSTITUTE: $360,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC: $230,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetABDELKADER EDUCATION PROJECT: $50,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetDELAWARE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSAVE VENICE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEAR 2 FREEDOM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNEW FUTURES: $17,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNEWPORT NEWS PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Noland Edwards Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Noland Edwards Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • Delaware College of Art and Design: 32% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 19 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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