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Panthera Edge Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$191k
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$692kInternational$133kHealth$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kCrime & Legal$1kReligion$1kHuman Services$795Food & Nutrition$225Other$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k59 grants · $179k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$2,900
Median grant
15
States reached
$610k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PERIUVIAN HEARTS$12,100
GLOBAL GIVING$6,900
JOURNEYS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY$6,725
CHILDREN OF VIETNAM$6,629
Individual grant recipient$5,200
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,500
Individual grant recipient$4,400
Individual grant recipient$4,300
Individual grant recipient$4,300
Individual grant recipient$4,300
Individual grant recipient$4,300
Individual grant recipient$4,300
Individual grant recipient$4,300
Individual grant recipient$4,300
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 (FY21–21, $200) 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%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
AZ
NM
NC
DC
HI
LA
TX
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$708k · 83 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

83 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
39

Total granted

$708k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+25%

Still filing today

7%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
InternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PH
    PERUVIAN HEARTS
    5× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +7%
  • CO
    CHILDREN OF VIETNAM
    7× · 2019–2025 · $29k · revenue +66%
  • JW
    JOURNEYS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY
    7× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +273%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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.

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Jesuit Worlwide Learning - Higher Education At the Margins Usa

An initiative of the Society of Jesus that brings higher education to those at the margins of our society. It draws on the rich, centuries-old Jesuit tradition of higher education and mobilizes the resources of the Jesuit worldwide network…

Education
2
William Davidson Institute At the University of Michigan

The William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan is an independent education research and applied practice organization. The Institute provides instruction and works with businesses universities development organizations and…

International
3
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
4
World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International
5
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
6
World Hunger Relief Institute

World hunger relief institute equips people to alleviate hunger through education, research, and sustainable agriculture.

International
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
Yours Humanly

Yours Humanly (YH) transforms the lives of children in need around the world by providing access to quality education and equitable resources. Through its two flagship initiatives, Coloring Futures and Bridging Gaps, YH has completed 34…

Education
9
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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10
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
11
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
12
William Carey International University

The mission of wciu is to provide innovative distance education programs to enhance the effectiveness of scholar practitioners as they serve with others to develop transformational solutions to the roots of human problems around the world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Peruvian Hearts. 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

9 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. 9 of the 137 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+129 more: $675,547 · Other+129 moreGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $57,036 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING …CHILDREN OF VIETNAM: $29,267 · InternationalCHILDREN OF V…HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,910 · InternationalHAITIAN HEALT…PERUVIAN HEARTS: $30,948 · Youth DevelopmentJOURNEYS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY: $24,495 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $3,000 · EducationTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $7,000 · HealthWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $200 · Human Services
Other$675,547International$102,213Youth Development$30,948Education$27,495Health$7,000Human Services$200

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 budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $57,036 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPERUVIAN HEARTS: $30,948 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDREN OF VIETNAM: $29,267 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetJOURNEYS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY: $24,495 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,910 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN: $595 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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 GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PERUVIAN HEARTS ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN OF VIETNAM ↗
  • Who funds JOURNEYS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC10.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Panthera Edge Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Panthera Edge Foundation. 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of 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 · 0–10%
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 137 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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