Montana · Private foundation
Op & We Edwards Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2024
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $155,358
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 65
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $28M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations Op & We Edwards Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 61 | $1.4M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $1.2M | 12% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $1.3M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $1.5M | 31% |
| FY2020 | 62 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hopa Mountain Inc | $322,500 | 5 | 5% |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Northern Cheyenne Nation | $296,831 | 5 | 9% |
| Asbury College | $283,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Life Enriching Communities Foundation | $283,200 | 5 | 2% |
| Let's Grow Kids Inc | $200,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary | $195,460 | 4 | 11% |
| Florence Crittenton Home and Services | $173,180 | 5 | 1% |
| Vermont Community Loan Fund | $165,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Young Families Early Head Start | $150,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Friendship House of Christian Service Inc | $150,000 | 5 | 3% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Op & We Edwards Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · Treacy Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Op & We Edwards Foundation Inc
- How much does Op & We Edwards Foundation Inc give?
- Op & We Edwards Foundation Inc reported 63 grants totaling $1,607,573 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 65 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Op & We Edwards Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Philanthropy (15%), Education (14%).
- Who are Op & We Edwards Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Hopa Mountain Inc ($323k), Boys and Girls Club of the Northern Cheyenne Nation ($297k), Asbury College ($283k).
- Does Op & We Edwards Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Op & We Edwards Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Op & We Edwards Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, Montana Community Foundation Inc, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
- Where is Op & We Edwards Foundation Inc based?
- Op & We Edwards Foundation Inc is based in MT.
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